Marci Reed, new AIA GA executive director
The American Institute of Architects, Georgia Association has named Marci B. Reed a executive director following a nation-wide search. As executive director, Reed will oversee the organization’s efforts to increase the public’s general knowledge and awareness of architecture and the role architects play in the built and planned environment. She will oversee government affairs to monitor state legislative and regulatory activities to promote and enhance the profession of architecture and manage the Architecture Foundation of Georgia.
“Marci brings to AIA Georgia strength and experience in organizational management and fundraising, as well as a reputation for convening constituencies around important issues,” said AIA Georgia President Michael Lowry AIA. “She is also very knowledgeable in matters regarding sustainability and the built environment, which is a major focus for our membership and the Institute.”
Reed brings to AIA Georgia twelve years of volunteer and professional experience in the nonprofit sector, including service as AIA Atlanta’s first executive director from 1999-2000. Most recently she served as director of development for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Georgia State University and a masters degree in Nonprofit Management from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State. Reed is a 2009-2010 Urban Fellow in the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth in the GSU College of Law and a Graduate of the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership.
“I am honored to have been selected as AIA Georgia’s next Executive Director from a pool of highly qualified candidates,” Reed said. ”I am grateful for the trust the organization’s leadership has placed in me. In today’s uncertain economy, I look forward to working with the board of directors, the leadership of our local chapters, and the staff as we work to provide the utmost value to the architects we are committed to ser
