Shannon Kraus, AIA, an associate at HKS’ Dallas office, specializes in health-care planning and design. The National Associates Committee (NAC) Regional Associate Director on the Board, he served on the Diversity, Knowledge, PIA Executive, Education, Strategic Planning, and PIA Executive Committee Strategic Planning committees. Kraus also served on a number of National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) visiting teams. He has served as AIAS national vice president, a Future Cities Competition 2004 juror, ArchVoices Advisory Board founding member and co-author of the AIA/ArchVoices Internship and Career Survey, juror of the AIA/AAF Minority/Disadvantaged Scholarship Awards, NCARB IDP Coordinating Committee member, Academy of Neuroscience participant, and Dallas Minority Business Association participant. He volunteers with the United Way and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas, where his wife Heather is the special events manager. Kraus earned a BS from Southern Illinois University, followed by his MArch and MBA from the University of Illinois.

Thomas R. Mathison, AIA, is a principal at Michigan’s Tower Pinkster Titus Associates Inc., where he leads the higher education office and the firm’s business development. Prior to joining TPTA he opened GBKB Associates’ branch office in Florida. An AIA regional director, he has been a liaison to the AIAS and the NCARB IDP Committee and has participated in the mentoring and long-range planning task groups. He also served on the boards and as president of AIA Michigan, AIA Grand Valley, and AIA Florida, and in other leadership positions. Mathison founded AIA Michigan’s Mentoring Network. He participates in the Committee on Architecture for Education PIA, the Council of Education Facility Planners, the Society for College and University Planning, community activities, and his church. Mathison earned a BS and a cum laude MArch from the University of Michigan. Mathison and his wife Denise have three children, Evan, Lauren, and Bryan.

RK Stewart, FAIA, who will begin his second term as AIA Vice President in 2005, is a principal with Gensler’s San Francisco office. A graduate of the universities of Kansas and Michigan, he taught at Mississippi State University and Louisiana State University schools of architecture and has practiced in a small firm in Wyoming and at SOM in Chicago. He has served as an AIA regional director and AIA California as president and vice president of education and practice. He was president of AIA San Francisco, and a member of the chapter’s board of directors. Stewart also serves on the California Architects Board, devoting his time to its Professional Qualifications Committee, Task Analysis Task Force, and Post-Licensure Task Force. He currently is AIA National’s co-chair of the IDP Coordinating Committee and chair of the Specialty Certification Task Force. Stewart; his wife, Barbara Lyons Stewart, AIA; and their two children call San Anselmo home.

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