Shannon DeFranza is the current National Vice President of the American Institute of Architecture Students and served as the Northeast Director this past year. She is a recent graduate from the Honors Program of Roger Williams University with her B.S. in Architecture, and looks to return to grad school in the coming years to focus on climate research related to architecture. She has been a part of AIAS for 5 years, and has dedicated much of that time to helping other architecture students feel empowered in their future.