Adriana Mema knew from a very young age that she is a builder. "Ever since I was young, I remember playing with sand on the beach and building alongside my brothers all sorts of roads, bridges, and obviously castles out of that wonderful material," confirmed Mema.

Mema immigrated to Canada from Albania in 1999 with one goal: to continue pursuing her love of buildings. However, when she arrived, she found there was resistance to women working in the construction industry. "The majority of women in construction at the time were working in the office and dealing with administrative duties," she said. Mema had a choice, be complacent or disrupt this societal inequity.

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