Brian W. Penschow, AIA, NCARB is the current President-elect for AIA-NJ, and a past-President of AIA Jersey Shore and current trustee. Brian has attended Union County College, Rutgers University College of Engineering, and New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture. At the inaugural Young Architect Conference Brian was awarded a conference award detailing his contributions to the community through leadership and mentorship. Also an award-wining design architect, Brian has been fortunate to have worked on nearly all building types throughout his career. Most recently he has completed work with a developer to adaptively reuse several buildings in the historic four-corners district of Newark, NJ through use of the federal historic tax credit and sound preservation techniques to breathe new life into a few glorious buildings. Brian is also scheduled to add professional planning and professional engineering licenses by the end of 2019 and 2020, respectively. Brian is a State licensing advisor for the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), sits on the residential exam development committee for the International Code Council (ICC), is an AIA-NJ liaison to the New Jersey State Board of Architects, serves on the public affairs, legislative and governmental affairs, k-12 education, and women in architecture committees. On weekends and evenings you can find him spending time with his family hiking, climbing lighthouses, or traveling. Brian loves nature, and cities, people, and animals, and has bucket-loads of passion for architecture.