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Keisha Thomas, Ph.D., PE, Senior Electrical Engineer, was recently awarded a Women of Vision award from The Daily Journal of Commerce. The award was created to recognize women who have been trailblazers in industries within Oregon and SW Washington and women who have contributed to creating a path for other women to get involved in the industry.

At the beginning of August, our total of women at Mazzetti was 43.2%! We are steadily inching towards our goal of having equal numbers of men and women within the company and being the most women friendly engineering firm in the world. This month, we’re excited to put the W@M spotlight on the incredible female interns (some of which are now full-time hires!) that we’ve had working at Mazzetti this summer.

Asya Rayter is a Senior Mechanical Designer in Mazzetti’s San Francisco office and one of Mazzetti’s longest-tenured employees! She has helped design many of the San Francisco office’s significant projects including Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, San Francisco Chinese Hospital, and various Kaiser projects. With retirement in her near future, we spoke to Asya about her career and what Mazzetti means to her.

The Women@Mazzetti committee has decided to postpone our planned spotlight for June until next month in light of the recent news of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. We want to allow time to discuss the impact that this ruling has on our employees and their families.

As an experienced medical equipment technician in the Army and a medical equipment planner and project manager at Mazzetti, we could say TaKeisha knows medical equipment from the inside out.

A fourth-generation engineer, Erin Black is a Mechanical Engineer in Mazzetti's St. Louis office and serves as the current ASHRAE President of the St. Louis Chapter where her grandfather still attends regular meetings. We know she will make an impact on future generations, whether they’re a fourth generation engineer or a first!

Holly Taylor works (remotely) in Mazzetti’s Denver office and is the Electrical Discipline Lead for Mazzetti. Holly’s leadership has made the electrical discipline a shining example of how to structure and maintain efficient workflows and resources for everyone to use!

Chelsea Quigley is a newly promoted Associate and Plumbing Designer in our San Francisco office. She started with Mazzetti after graduating from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in environmental engineering and says she fell into the role somewhat randomly – “[Plumbing] was something I had never realized even was a career (the toilet just magically flushes on its own, right?).” Five years later, Chelsea has become an indispensable part of the plumbing team, working on projects of varying size in addition to project management.

Continuing our 8-year long relationship with Team Tech, earlier this year Mazzetti collaborated with a team of students for the annual Cal Poly Society of Women Engineers Team Tech competition — a collegiate competition focused on the importance of teamwork and interfacing with the engineering industry.  We are proud to report, our team took first place!  

Meet Christina Vernon Sanborn, Mazzetti’s new Senior Decarbonization Specialist. An architect, Christina brings unique owner experience in the Healthcare and Education sectors, in facility planning, design, and operations. Her passion and expertise in sustainability coupled with her ability to drive positive change is an effective combo (and her track record vouches). Christina, though based in Cleveland, OH, will serve Mazzetti clients nationwide, helping yield positive climate-responsible solutions.

Edna Webb is Mazzetti’s Controller—ensuring the day-to-day financial activities are executed—payments made, general ledger is current, reporting is completed, etc. Edna was previously employed by another engineering firm as an Accounting Manager, before joining Mazzetti  as Controller 11 years ago, working out of the Nashville (Franklin) office.

Kristelle Fruge is an associate and technology project manager for Mazzetti+GBA’s technology division out of the Franklin, TN office. After working in high tech for many years, Kristelle was looking for a change in her career and was drawn to medical equipment and IT planning. She ended up at GBA (which merged with Mazzetti in 2016) and has been an indispensable part of the team ever since!