Delegates at the 2022 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Annual Meeting elected Kimberly Dowdell to serve as the 2023 first VP and 2024 president-elect. The 100th president in AIA’s history, Dowdell, who also currently serves as marketing principal for HOK, will be the first Black woman to lead the organization. “As the 295th living Black woman to earn an architectural license in the U.S., I am keen to help young women and people of color,” she says.
An AIA member since 2007, Dowdell graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor of architecture in 2006 and received a master of public administration from Harvard University in 2015. Her robust volunteering record with AIA includes serving on the Equity and the Future of Architecture Committee from 2019–2020; the New Urban Agenda Task Force from 2019-2021; the AIA New York Nominating Committee in 2021; and the AIA Chicago EVP Search Committee in 2021. Dowdell also received AIA’s Young Architects Award in 2020.
The 2022 Annual Meeting also saw the election of Gensler technical director Britt Lindberg as the 2023-2024 secretary and +LAB architect PLLC founding principal Illya Azaroff as the 2023-2025 at-large director.
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