good work quietly and modestly. Elders also help students realize that to be great designers, or good persons, they need to reach deep inside to find their inner voices so they can express who they are through their work.” This ethos, though born of and grounded in a distinct place, is a way of grounding design in any place, uniquely preparing McEwen School graduates for the emerging needs of society in the face of climate change and other global stressors with an intuitive sense of the ways in which place-based design can create change. Our CEO Jason F. McLennan, born and raised in Sudbury, has been honored with an invitation to join the McEwen School Advisory Board alongside over a dozen other distinguished leaders from both in and outside the profession. Together, the board are contributing their varied expertise and ideas to continue to grow the program. “My experience growing up in Sudbury and the North shaped my world-view, my sensibilities and my deep commitment to a different way of living and being focused on regeneration and beautiful design” says McLennan, who visited the school at the end of November to participate in the first meeting of the board. “I am honored to come home and provide counsel and ideas to this wonderful new icon of the north.” MSoA’s first Master of Architecture class will graduate in the spring of 2019.
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