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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