Yiselle Santos Rivera

Yiselle Santos Rivera, is a Puerto Rican architect, the 2026 AIA (American Institute of Architects) President-Elect, and a 20-year resident of Washington, DC. She is the founder of YSR, LLC, a practice focused on healthcare architecture and organizational change, and a full-time lecturer at Howard University’s Department of Architecture. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Leadership Psychology at William James College. She has spent her career designing spaces that ask the question architects are trained to ask first: who is this for?