Advisory Board Member Profile
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Melody Leung
Stemper AC
President, Managing Member |
Areas of Expertise:
Introduction to Design Thinking, The Design Thinking Organization
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Melody Leung has built her architecture career for over 25 years and is a leader in management, planning, and design. She is originally from Texas where she earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin and worked at an award winning architecture firm for 10 years. She moved to the Pacific Northwest and began working as a Project Manager at S.M. Stemper Architects over 15 years ago, and became President and Managing Member of the firm in 2018.
With the leadership transition, Melody led a major rebranding effort and transformed the firm into Stemper Architecture Collaborative (Stemper AC), a full-service, minority woman-owned architecture firm emphasizing design that intimately merges detailed knowledge of building systems and construction methods in corroboration with visual aesthetic, where each concept has equal value and strength. Her firm focuses on a design process integrating intensive, hands-on creative problem solving, critical thinking processes, quality control, and horizontal team collaboration. Melody is active in her local community, and strongly supports helping minority owned and small businesses succeed. She is passionate about teaching and mentoring others, both in the office, in the architecture industry, and in her personal encounters, with a focus on positively impacting and empowering women.
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