Shawna Mabie

Shawna Mabie, AIA, is a Project Manager at Brasfield & Gorrie, where she supports complex projects through preconstruction, coordination, and execution. With more than 15 years of experience delivering highly technical life science, workplace, and institutional environments, she spent the majority of her career on the design side before recently transitioning into construction. This shift brings a multidisciplinary, practice-informed perspective to her work, with a focus on aligning client goals, managing stakeholder complexity, and guiding teams through projects where schedule, budget, and technical performance are critical to success.

A founder and chair of the AIA Triangle Leadership Forum, Shawna is committed to developing emerging professionals and strengthening the leadership pipeline within the profession. Through this work, she has designed and facilitated programs focused on practice operations, leadership dynamics, and professional culture, helping early-career architects better understand firm environments and their role within them. She also serves in the AIA Practice Management Knowledge Community Leadership Group, contributing to national initiatives related to firm operations, leadership development, and professional sustainability.

In addition to professional practice, Shawna is an adjunct faculty member at North Carolina State University, where she teaches professional software to undergraduate and graduate students. Her teaching emphasizes practice-ready skills, technical competency, and real-world application, drawing directly from active project experience to better prepare students for professional practice.

Shawna received the 2024 AIA Young Architects Award in recognition of her contributions to professional development, education, and mentorship within the architectural community.