Pub. 1 2018 Directory

23 O n behalf of the Western Mountain Region Executive Committee and the AIA National Strategic Council, I am pleased to give you this report on various current items within the region and nation for 2018. 2018 AIA Western Mountain Region: WesternMountain Region Executive Committee Katie Wilson, AIA – Senior Director [Wyoming] Nate Hudson, AIA – Junior Director [Nevada] Bruce Fallon, AIA – Secretary [Utah] Mark Ryan, AIA - Treasurer [Nevada] Amber Haro, Associate AIA – Regional Associate Director [Arizona] Heather Wilson – CACE Representative [Utah] 2018 Western Mountain Region Executive Liaisons: Jeanne Jackson, FAIA, LEEDAP - WMR Fellows Senior Regional Representative [Utah] Steve Loos, FAIA –WMR Fellows Junior Regional Representative Nick Caravella, AIA - WMR Young Architect Regional Director Michael Potter, AIA - WMR Small Firms Exchange Representative 2018 Western Mountain Region State Representatives: AIA Arizona State President: Rob Miller, AIA AIA Colorado State President: Carl Hole, AIA AIANevada State President: Jon Sparer, FAIA AIANewMexico State President: Steve Alano, AIA AIAUtah State President: James Lohse, AIA AIAWyoming State President: Dan Stalker, AIA Regional Elections and Appointments for AIA WMR: During the AIAWMR Annual Business Meeting on October 3, 2019 elections, appointments, and announcements were made: Dino Sakellar, AIA of AIA Arizona was elected as the 2019-2021 Regional Director. Mark Ryan, AIA of AIANevada was re-elected as the 2019-2020 Regional Treasurer. Heather Wilson of AIAUtah was reappointed as the 2019-2020 Regional CACE Representative. Glenn Fellows, FAIA of AIANewMexico was appointed as the 2019- 2021 Regional Representative to the College of Fellows. Oscar Lopez, Associate AIA of AIA Arizona was announced as the 2019 Recipient of the AIAWMR Pettigrew Leadership Scholarship. As with many positions in the institute, regional appointment or election is both a great honor in the service and dedication to our profession but also a tremendously rewarding experience. It has been a true pleasure working with our exiting leadership Senior Director Katie Wilson, Treasurer Mark Ryan, and Senior Fellows Representative Jeanne Jackson. Their leadership, determination, and passionate voices will be missed. We thank them for their time in service to our region and the institute at large. AIA Western Mountain Region Conference: Be sure to register and arrange travel plans to the 2019WMR Conference in Jackson, Wyoming! AIA WMR Conference - Looking Forward The AIAWestern Mountain Regional Council is strategically aligned with and supportive of, furthering the mission and goals of the region and the institute, in order to facilitate communication between the Institute Strategic Council and this region and its members, thereby advancing the objectives of both the institute and the region, unifying their efforts, and providing advocacy on the issues pertinent to its members and the profession. Although our regional conference has proven to be a staple of collegiate network building for decades within the past 5-10 years, the WMR Conference has been seeing reductions in attendance, questions of membership value, and substantial differences in host state participation as well as resource allocation. In 2018, this has moved to the main topic of regional concern and was briefly discussed at our winter Leadership Summit in Salt Lake City. Through this conversation, it was determined that the value of the WMR Conference should be found in the building of networks and connections between states with a common purpose. A face-to-face gathering is vital to ensure these connections and solidify institutional memory and is incredibly beneficial to share ideas and receive training to educate and strengthen our members (e.g. leadership training, diversity training, advocacy training, marketing/prosperity development training). In the years ahead, the WMR Conference will be migrating to more of a leadership summit type event but will be required to include: • Regional Business Meeting/Elections • Programs or opportunities to educate and allow for discussion of priorities and issues facing the region as well as future regional organizational planning • Design and Honor Awards program • WMR Pettigrew Leadership Scholarship awareness and fundraising • Governmental Advocacy education and fundraising (ArchiPAC) This event shall continue to be hosted on a rotating basis by each of the State Components of the Western Mountain Region; however they WMR and National Update BY NATE HUDSON, WMR REGIONAL DIRECTOR