Mel Ngami, AIA, currently serves as the Young Architect Representative for AIA Pennsylvania on the Young Architects Forum (YAF). She uses her craft to create spaces that give people room to explore their identities and the history of the land they inhabit. Her passion for technology drives her practice, where she strives to broaden the perspectives shaping our built environment. Attuned to the psychological and physical qualities of architecture, Mel understands architecture as an act of storytelling that engages people, place, and past as it anticipates the future. Mel is also a former Adjunct Professor of Architecture at both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.