Emerging Professionals

Apply for ELA Class of 2024!

Join AIA Virginia for a year-long educational intensive -- Emerging Leaders in Architecture Class of 2024!

ELA is an intensive program of educational sessions structured around presentations, discussions, team exploration, analysis, consensus-building, collaboration, and case study activities undertaken over the course of a year by a small cadre of participants selected for their potential to be outstanding contributors to the profession and the community. Facilitators and mentors who are established leaders in the building, finance, non-profit, development, university, legal, consulting, and design professions and in the community at large develop and deliver the sessions, designed to provide participants with advanced knowledge and skills related to specific areas of leadership and practice. The class project for 2024 will be in Northern Virginia, so many sessions and the project work days will be located in the Northern Virginia area.

Applications Due to AIA CV by OCT 2nd, and to AIA VA by NOV 10th

To apply to represent AIA Central Virginia, click here.
AIA Central Virginia nomination application due > OCTOBER 2, 2023 

To learn more about the ELA program and apply to AIA VA, click here.
AIA Virginia applications due > NOVEMBER 10, 2023.