I am so excited about the opportunity to serve as the AIA Utah president this year. Last year, AIA Utah hosted a Firm Leadership Summit and a Strategic Board Retreat. From those two events, a series of consistent goals emerged. These goals have been integrated into our 2025 agenda, and we want to ensure that you, our members, are getting the most benefit from AIA. This year, we will:

• Offer more frequent and diverse building tours, occurring nearly monthly and across the state.
• Continue to provide ample opportunities to gain Continuing Education Units through industry partners, AIA Utah committee-curated tours and events, and the AIA Annual Conference.
• Host an annual calendar of events on the website, which allows you to see all the events being offered throughout the year.
• Actively work on improved website links to connect AIA Utah members with AIA‑created tools and resources.
• Consistently improve our communication with members through online, print and in‑person communications.
• Formalize our Task Forces for Good to support community engagement and bring the voices of architects to the forefront of critical discussions. Practically, this means recognizing a problem or issue in our community that interfaces with the architectural profession and using our voices to bring value to the discussion.
• Strengthen AIA Utah’s relationship with the Small Firm Exchange and the Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) to improve engagement between AIA Utah and small firms and residential architects.

These goals are consistent with the ongoing efforts of AIA Utah to be an effective voice for our profession, to support our members in their professional pursuits and to heighten the value of architects and architecture in our communities. I am proud to be a part of this effort for the coming year.

Respectfully,

Whitney