Melanie is a licensed architect and Senior Associate in the Affordable Housing studio at Hord Coplan Macht in Baltimore, MD, and currently serves as the President of Bmore NOMA, the Baltimore Chapter of NOMA. She is the 424th living black woman licensed in the US to practice architecture and is an active mentor to aspiring architects, supporting NOMA’s goal of doubling the number of licensed black architects by 2030. Melanie is passionate about ensuring all communities have access to well-designed, beautiful, and functional buildings and public spaces, and believes that we all play a role in creating that vision.