Kari Sebern

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About Kari Sebern

Kari is the founder and principal of Vector Collaborative. With 20 years of design experience, Kari thrives when collaboratively arriving at solutions that are cost-effective, practical, innovative, and technically sound. She loves merging math and science into art and seeing her clients' visions come to life.Kari founded Vector Collaborative, formerly called s-cube, in 2010 as an opportunity to provide local structural engineering support central and western Iowa and, in 2018, expanded to Colorado. She has expertise in steel, concrete, masonry and timber design, and uses the latest building technologies to serve her clients: Revit, Risa and RAM Structural System. Highly involved in the engineering industry, Kari serves as a voting member of the ASCE 7-22 Dead and Live Loads Subcommittee, sits on the Iowa State Building Code Advisory Council, and is a Past President of the Iowa Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, an international society with 800+ members within the Iowa Section. In 2020 she started The Unboxing Project, an interview series with the goals of promoting diversity, breaking down stereotypes in STEM and exposing kids to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). In 2022 the focus of this podcast shifted and was renamed to Unstruct. This new version of the podcast explores fascinating buildings around the world and the structural engineers behind them. Kari is most energized when she is connecting with and learning from inspiring people and expelling stereotypes in the engineering world. She is an entrepreneur, mom, Christian, certified yoga instructor, STEM advocate, and equal rights voice.