Passion for Affordable Housing, Workforce Development Dunn-Guion has been a strong advocate of affordable housing and construction workforce development throughout her career. A 27-year Swinerton veteran, she was the first intern to serve in Swinerton’s Bay Area office during a summer while attending UC Berkeley and then joined the company full-time after obtaining her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. She worked her way up through var-
ious roles over the years, from project engineer to project manager, and for the last four years has served as vice president and division manager of the San Francisco office before recently be- ing named senior vice president and regional manager in Northern California. She also currently serves as president of Swinerton’s nonprofit philanthropic arm, the Swinerton Foundation, which gives about $1.5 million to Bay Area nonprofit groups annually. Leaning into her passion for workforce development, Dunn-Guion also sits on San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s Workforce Investment San Francisco board, which has the stated mission “to provide a forum where businesses, labor, education, gov- ernment, community-based organizations and other stakeholders work together to increase their collective capacity to address the supply and demand challenges con- fronting the workforce in San Francisco.” Tat work dovetails well with the impe- tus behind the Sophie Maxwell Building project, which will enable more people who work in the City of San Francisco to be able to afford to live there as well. “It’s important that San Francisco doesn’t lose the fabric and diversity it has always had and that people who grew up here are able to live here,” Dunn-Guion said. “It feels really good to create spaces that are affordable and where people can live near where they work.”
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CALIFORNIA CONSTRUCTOR JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2025
Swinerton’s all-female project management team in front of the Potrero Power Station Block 7B/Sophie Maxwell Building project
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