AIAS Graduates – Class of 2021

Vanessa Abou Harb

Lebanese American University

Major: Bachelor of  Architecture (B.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; FBD Team Member; National Committee/Task Force Member; National Board of Directors Member

“et pourtant elle tourne” – Galilée

Shahira Aliwi

University of Memphis

Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch), Architecture Interior – Medical Optics

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Member

“The future is now”

Lina Ballita

USEK – Lebanon

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member

“With passion and patience everything is possible.”

Sadikshya Bastola

University of Memphis

Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member

“People Who Are Crazy Enough To Think They Can Change The World, Are The Ones Who Do.” – Rob Siltanen

Elizabeth Loren Caccavano

Temple University

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; FBD Team Member; Quad Conference Planning Team Member; National Committee/Task Force Member; National Board of Directors Member

Congratulations to the AIAS Class of 2021!! Beyond proud to be part of a group of people with such a passion for elevating one another to be better each and every day.

Korzell Coe

University of Detroit Mercy

Major: Master of Architecture (M. Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member

“You can be the CEO but at the end of the day I am the COE.”

Scott Cornelius

Oklahoma State University

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Minor: Architectural History & Theory

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Chapter Committee Member; National Committee/Task Force Member; National Board of Directors Member

“Bah? That’s a terrible senior quote don’t use that” – Cooper Moore, AIAS Midwest Quad Director 2020-2021

Jomarly Cruz

University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras Campus

Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Member

We made it!!!

Shannon DeFranza

Roger Williams University

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Minor: Sustainability Studies; Art and Architectural History

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; AIAS Advocate; National Committee/Task Force Member; National Board of Directors Member

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.” – Victor Hugo

Jameica T. Demercado

California Baptist University

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch); Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; FBD Team Member

“Ohana and Confidence was my key to success.” Through these five years, I’ve learned so much that I can’t wait to see what my work can transform for the future development of the architectural field.

Margaux Elliot

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch)

Minor: Landscape Architecture, Environmental Studies, Sustainable Environments, and Geographic Information Systems

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member; Chapter Committee Member; FBD Team Member

Thank you to my friends, family, and professors for your continued support and encouragement.

Lisa Evans

University of Houston

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch)

Minor: Business Foundations

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Chapter Committee Member; FBD Team Member

“The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn’t about money. It was about teaching, or learning.” -Maya Lin

Alex Geisen

Washington State University

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture); Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; National Committee/Task Force Member; National Board of Directors Member

“‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky’ – Michael Scott”
– Alex Geisen

Dalton Mark Evan Green

University Of Memphis

Major:  Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (B.A. in Architecture); Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Architecture

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Chapter Committee Member

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he will strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Psalm 27:14

Laurent Gutierrez

Kean University

Major: Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (B.A. in Architecture); B.A in Art History

Minor: Fine Arts

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Member

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

Garrett Hartsuyker

Cal Poly Pomona

Major: Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (B.A. in Architecture);

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; National Committee/Task Force Member

Aim for the sky knowing that you won’t push people down from your jet stream but they will want to fly with you! Beautiful.”

Elana Chetana Honig-Juárez

Jefferson University, College of Architecture and the Built Environment

Major: Master of Architecture (M. Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Member;

Never has so much hard work been so fulfilling.

Carol Herro

USEK

Major: Master of Architecture (M. Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Chapter Committee Member; National Committee/Task Force Member

i graduated! can i go back to bed now?

Christian Hudson

Howard University

Major: Master of Architecture (M. Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; National Committee/Task Force Member

They say all-nighters don’t end here…

Brandon Jacobson

Texas Tech University

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Minor: Environmental Studies

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member

Be unique or be nothing.

Mia Karim

Holy Spirit University of Kaslik-USEK

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Minor: General Business Studies

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; National Committee/Task Force Member

You don’t find the happy life. You build it!

Alex Karimpour

University of Central Florida

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member; Chapter Committee Member

Hooray!

Melissa Ramos López

University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member

I’m more than thankful for the friends that became family in such short time. After long sleepless nights and lots of hard work… WE MADE IT!!!

Natasha Maloney

University of Houston

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Member

The first semester of architecture school everyone in studio chose a movie quote as a personal motto for the remaining years, mine was “Never give up. Never surrender!” from Galaxy Quest.

Mouloud Messaoudi

University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning

Major: Ph.D. in Design, Construction and Planning

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member

Keep working hard, never give up!

Davis Millard

UNC Charlotte

Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member

Anything worthwhile in life takes work, for an architecture degree, all nighters and pots of coffee.

Maher Mohamad Chafic Moghrabi

School of Architecture and Design / Lebanese American University

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member; Chapter Committee Member; National Committee/Task Force Member

Your future is only as good as the work you put into it.

Cooper Moore

Kent State University

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Minor: Urban Studies and Planning

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Chapter Committee Member; National Committee/Task Force Member; National Board of Directors Member

“Bah” – Scott Cornelius, 2020-2021 AIAS South Quad Director, 2021-2022 AIAS National President

Makenzie Morse

University of Memphis

Major: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture and Interior Architecture

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stefan Martin Niño

University of Houston

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch)

Minor: Construction Management

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Chapter Committee Member

“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”
-Normon Foster

Alexis O’Rourke

New York Institute of Technology

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture); Concentration in Construction Management

Minor: Business

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member

My advice to incoming students, or current ones, is don’t give up. College is tough but with hard work and dedication you are bound to succeed! 🙂

Nicholas Peruski

Lawrence Technological University

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Chapter Committee Member

“Now the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”—2 Corinthians 3:17

Mario Alberto Pimentel

Florida Atlantic University

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member;

It is not the beginning that determines the momentum of your trajectory, but rather the pushes, the stops, the timeouts and the boosts you encounter along the way to your destination.

Kyle Reid

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch); Master of Infrastructure Planning

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member; Chapter Committee Member

I’m extremely grateful for my time at NJIT, especially getting involved with our AIAS chapter. Being able to coordinate events both social and professional for the student body has been a pleasure!

Annie Ringhofer

University of Kansas

Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; FBD Team Member; Chapter Committee Member; Quad Conference Planning Team Member; National Committee/Task Force Member

“Badassery, I’m discovering, is a new level of confidence—in both yourself and those around you.” – Shonda Rhimes

Nicholas Romero

University of New Mexico

Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Minor: Business

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; National Committee/Task Force Member

What if one day you woke up and you were a chicken nugget.

Brooke Ryan

Oklahoma State University

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Minor: Marketing

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member

Some say, “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” But I prefer, “Don’t be upsetti. Eat some spaghetti.”

Farnaz Sadeghi

University of Memphis

Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Minor: 

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Member

Life is nothing but to express. (Inspired by Louis Kahn words)

Andriana Falafivka Severson

University of Houston

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Minor: Computer Science

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Member

Even for the same project, every designer creates a different world in his or her mind

Shraddha Shetty

University of Illinois at Chicago

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member

“I changed my cant’s into cans and dreams into plans”. Thank you to my parents, sister, friends and loved ones for all the love and support.

Gabriella Spatz

Bowling Green State University

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Minor: Spanish

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Quad Conference Planning Team Member; National Committee/Task Force Member

If you really want something, you don’t stop for anyone or anything until you get it, even if it takes a decade right? #architectureisfun

Megan Strayer

University of Kansas

Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Minor: Business

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Quad Conference Planning Team Member

“I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.” -Michael Scott

Hady Tawk

Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK)

Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; National Committee/Task Force Member

“We rise by lifting others.”
― Robert Ingersoll

Virgen Berrios Torres

University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member; Chapter Committee Member

Boom-clap, I did it.

Noah Torstenson

Iowa State University

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Minors: Music, Spanish

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member; Chapter Committee Member

Nicole Urquhart

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; FBD Team Member

“What lies behind us are the building blocks to what lies in front of us.”

Angélica C. Velázquez Vázquez

School of Architecture – University of Puerto Rico

Major: Environmental Design

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member

¡Lo logramos! Next step: Grad School.

Rachel Wiesbrock

Illinois Institute of Technology

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Chapter Committee Member; Quad Conference Planning Team Member; FORUM Planning Team Member; AIAS Advocate; National Committee/Task Force Member

“When we design for disability first, you often stumble upon solutions that are better than those when we design for the norm.” – Elise Roy

Raymond John Wysocki

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; Chapter Committee Member

The best way to predict the future is to create it. -Abraham Lincoln

Roba Fathi Youssef

Lawrence Technological University

Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter  Member

Work hard and always do your best even if you need to recharge for a bit but never give up. Stay strong and resilient and know that a goal is never achieved using one path but several paths.

Warda Zaidi

Bowling Green State University

Major: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (B.S. in Architecture)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Executive Board Member; FBD Team Member; AIAS Advocate; National Committee/Task Force Member

it is our duty, as citizens of the world, to make noise where injustice takes place, because being neutral is chosing the side of the oppressor.

Sherise C. Zapanta

NewSchool of Architecture & Design

Major: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

Past AIAS Achievements: Chapter Member

My foundation is set in stone and I am ready to design my future! Cheers to the Class of 2021