Ideas in Action: Building the Lighting Community - Lauren Dandridge and Colleen Peach

"Filling the pipeline" is an ever-present hot topic in the lighting community. No matter where you get your lighting news, you're likely to see a focus on the challenge of engaging and retaining the next generation of lighting lovers — with an emphasis on diversifying the ranks of our industry and reaching new audiences. Sometimes, out of big problems — like social unrest and global pandemics — come big ideas and actionable solutions. The story of the LA Lighting Speakers Bureau is a story of one such solution, with its success stemming from the collective action of the Los Angeles lighting community. Lauren Dandridge, founding principal of Chromatic, and Colleen Peach, senior lighting sesigner at Arup, tell us why the Speaker's Bureau got started and how the model can be a beacon for similar community action.