Artist and builder, Roary Racquel first fell in love with design and fabrication through filmmaking. After obtaining her bachelor's degree in Digital Film and Video Production at the Art Institute of San Francisco, Roary applied her passion for the arts towards production design and set building. To pursue building and fabrication deeper, she graduated from San Francisco’s City Build Program Cycle 28 Pre- apprenticeship, top of her class.

Roary has since formed strong roots in Local 22 Carpenter’s Union, Local 16 IATSE, and in the process of joining Local 800 Art Directors Guild. Through these avenues, she has worked on many commercial construction job sites including Transamerica Pyramid Remodel, Golden State Warrior's Chase Center Arena, Gensler- Jagalchi Korean Market, Gilead Sciences Lab, UCSF Hospital, El Camino Hospital, and on yearlong installs with Google. She continues to apply her creative sensibilities on projects like building film sets featured in Netflix Series and feature films like Directors: Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck’s Freaky Tales in 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

 

A perpetual learner, Roary is also working towards her design, architecture, and construction management degrees to step forward in leadership in the building trades.

 

In her free time, Roary volunteers at Habitat for Humanity (Bay Area/ Los Angeles), building affordable housing. She recently volunteered her time with Habitat for Humanity, Greater Los Angeles Fire Aid during the fire crisis in Southern CA. Roary enjoys guest speaking with nonprofit MC3 Construction programs to inspire the next builders of opportunities. To unwind, she loves surfing a 9’3 log in Santa Cruz, roller skating around the apex in a roller derby bout, making a racket on drums at a local venue, and soaking up life through her medium format camera lens.

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Roary has experienced challenging conditions in the construction industry, which has taught her the value of perseverance. While carpentry remains a male-dominated industry, Roary prides herself in having forged a passion-filled career in this field. She is proud of her multicultural background and is driven to empower and cultivate future generations of trade workers.