AIA Publicizes Evelyn Lee as its 2025 President

AIA Publicizes Evelyn Lee as its 2025 President

The American Institute of Architects has elected Evelyn Lee as a result of the 2025 President-elect. By the AIA annual meeting, Lee has been chosen to take the place of 2024 First VP President-Elect, and afterward to develop into president in 2025. AIA has moreover elected Heather Philip-O’Neal to operate Treasurer between 2024-2025, and Latoya N. Kamdang as a result of the elected At-large Director.

Evelyn Lee is the Worldwide Head of Workplace Method and Innovation at Slack Utilized sciences, Founding father of the Comply with of Construction, and Co-Host of the Podcast Comply with Disrupted. She will also be a member of the Nationwide Group of Minority Architects (NOMA). From 2020 to 2021, she served as the first female Treasurer to the AIA Nationwide Board. She will also be broadly revealed, having managed a month-to-month column for Contract journal, together with different totally different on-line publications, the place she developed recurring content material materials on the enterprise of construction. Furthermore, Evelyn Lee has been featured as a speaker, panelist, and moderator at nationwide design and construction conferences, along with AIA Nationwide Convention, Dwell on Design, and Women in Inexperienced.

Lee’s advertising marketing campaign is targeting three principal areas, as she describes on her advertising marketing campaign website online: ‘[Re]Pondering How We Comply with Construction’ to strengthen the enterprise of construction and make it additional welcoming for future generations; ‘[Re]Designing How We Collaborate as a Profession’ to encourage the sharing of study and work all through state parts; and ‘[Re]Envisioning How We Create Value Previous Comply with’ to look out strategies to re-engage people who have chosen totally different occupation paths as advocates for architects and construction. Lee moreover mentions that she understands her advertising marketing campaign as a continuation of that of Kimberly Dowdell, the current President of AIA.

We’ve the teaching our society so desperately desires to resolve its most pressing challenges. I decided to run as soon as extra because of “the necessity for transformation in our enterprise is so good, and I think about I’m the exact chief to empower our members to meet the second. – Evelyn Lee

After the onset of the pandemic, Evelyn Lee talked about in an distinctive ArchDaily Interview her perspective on the best way ahead for working collectively and the need to rethink typical office buildings to encourage collaboration spherical he world.

Ultimate 12 months, Kimberly Dowdell was chosen as a result of the 100^th president of the American Institute of Architects, turning into the first Black woman to hold the place in AIA’s 165-year historic previous. She ran a advertising marketing campaign centered on supporting architects in observe, making a means of belonging and making sure entry to the architectural profession and education.

Data by AIA.