The AIA national component staff is extending a warm welcome to two new team vice presidents: Ronald A. Faucheux, PhD, Esq, AIA Government Advocacy, and Elizabeth Stewart, Esq, AIA Public Advocacy. Faucheux and Stewart are poised to be advocates for and communicators about our profession, leveraging the architect’s knowledge wherever possible.

Ron Faucheux
Faucheux is a political analyst, author, university professor, lawyer, two-time member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and that state’s secretary of commerce. He has significant hands-on experience in grassroots lobbying campaigns, strategic planning, and government relations, having handled 116 campaigns in 11 states. He is contributor-at-large for the nonpartisan Campaigns & Elections magazine, a publication he previously published and edited. Faucheux has trained thousands of candidates for federal, state, and local offices worldwide and founded the nonprofit, nonpartisan Government Leadership Institute at the University of New Orleans. As the publisher of The Political Oddsmaker, an online elections handicapping service, he has correctly called winners in 98 percent of more than 2,100 elections since 1995.

Faucheux (pronounced FOE-SHAY) is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and the Louisiana State University Law Center. He received a PhD in political science from the University of New Orleans.

Elizabeth Stewart
Stewart comes to the national component staff from the National Rural Telecommunication Cooperative (NRTC), where she served as marketing vice president. Prior to joining NRTC, she served as director of brand research and marketing at the American Red Cross. As vice president, AIA Public Advocacy, Stewart will provide vision, leadership, and direction in the development and management of print and electronic member communications, promotion and marketing communications for AIA products and services, advertising and branding, media relations, and public outreach. In addition, she will oversee the AIA national convention and centralized meeting teams.

Stewart earned her law degree from The Catholic University of America, an MA in economics from George Mason University, and her BA from the University of the Philippines.

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