Samantha Markham, AIA
Samantha Markham, AIA, NCARB is the North Texas K12 Market Leader, Senior Associate, and Project Manager for Stantec. Sam serves K12 clients as a Project Manager with her ability to build positive lasting relationships and her communication and knowledge of project management and delivery. Sam also leads Stantec’s North American Buildings Summer Intern Program, a program she helped develop to provide students a well-rounded, unique internship experience connected across the US and Canada. Sam is highly involved externally as well, leading the ACE Mentor Program of Plano/Frisco which mentors high school juniors and seniors interested in the buildings industries. She has previously served in multiple roles with AIA Dallas, including her role as the Women in Architecture Chair in 2017, where she organized and led the creation of the Empowering Conference.
During 2020-2021, Sam served as the TxA Education Outreach Committee Chair, helping create and lead the first TxA Student Design Challenge – a statewide design competition to showcase middle and high school student’s work culminating at the Annual TxA Conference in the fall. In 2016, she was named the AIA Dallas Young Architect of the Year and in 2019 she was honored by being 1 of only 5 nationally recognized ACE-ENR Mentor of the Year. Sam was named to ENR’s Texas and Louisiana 2021 Top Young Professionals. She currently stays connected with her alma mater, Louisiana Tech, by serving on their Architecture Advisory Group and also served on the AIA National Young Architects Forum and on TxA’s Board of Directors as the Young Architect Representative for Texas for 2022-2023. She is currently serving as the TxA Vice President of Communications for 2024-2025.
Sam is a proud mom to daughter, Ainsley, and her three fuzzy siblings.