• Danny O’Malley, senior project engineer, Blach Construction


• Rodney Montgomery, superintendent, Alston Construction


• Ryan Ricard, senior project engineer, Caliagua Inc.


• Pranasha Shrestha, project manager, Clark Construction Group


• Vanessa Tilley, senior project engineer, McCarthy Building Cos. Inc.


• Bruce Wallace, project engineer, Hensel Phelps Steering Committee Chair Branden


Emerging Leaders Active in 2022


opportunities, and the chance to engage and help create a healthy and thriving construction industry. This spring, the Emerging Leaders held several successful events. These


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included an in-person “Tools & Tacos” event, a unique skills development and networking mixer powered by Milwaukee Tools, which drew more than 60 young professionals to Sacramento on April 28, 2022. This same event was held at McCarthy’s offices in Southern California on May 24, with ap- proximately 40 in attendance. A virtual Emerging Leaders Women in Construction networking mixer


on March 7 featured speakers Edgar Martinez (Chair) and Mercy Canul, Southern California AGC Emerging Leaders, and Julie Cantoni, President of the National Association of Women in Construction – Orange County., NAWIC-OC. On May 5, a virtual Lunch & Learn event offered insights into California’s


Title 24 Mechanical Acceptance Testing. For more on activities planned by the AGC Emerging Leaders for the


remainder of 2022, go to www.agc-ca.org/resources/workforce-develop- ment/agc-emerging-leaders/.


he AGC of California (AGC) Emerging Leaders program provides entry- to mid-level professionals across all sectors of California’s construction industry with education and training, networking


Laptalo, project superintendent at Hensel Phelps, said the committee was excited to welcome the newest members. “Each of the new members is an accomplished and motivated leader within their respective companies,” he noted. “Tey are eager to share their insight and success with their peers throughout AGC’s network.” California Constructor reached out to a few of the new Steering Committee members to find out more about them and why they joined the committee.


Ashley Lasiter is a project manager/esti- mator at Granite Construction, where she has worked since the summer 2009 when she was a junior year at the University of California at Davis pursuing her civil engineering degree. As a full-time working professional as well as a mom of two elementary school age children, including one with special needs, Lasiter has forged a strong bond with her Granite coworkers. She said she has made an effort to “sort of break the stereotype and show you can be a full- time working mom in the construction industry, still get that work/life balance, and not feel like you have to pick or choose one or the other.” Lasiter joined the Emerging Leaders


Steering Committee in part to further strengthen her network of construction


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