Je'Nen M. Chastain is a designer with Heller Manus Architects in San Francisco, and a graduate from Mills College with an MBA and a concentration in social entrepreneurship. She is a Richard Upjohn Fellow of the AIA, and a Past Chair of the AIA Center for Civic Leadership where she helped launched the re-imagined national leadership program of the AIA in 2015. Je'Nen is a former national President of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS).