AIA BALTIMORE IS CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS DEC. 24, 2024 – JAN. 1, 2025.

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Board

Kelly Danz, AIA

Director

Kelly Danz AIA, LEED BD+C, WELL AP, is a fifth generation Baltimorean, a licensed architect in the state of Maryland, and a Senior Associate at Ziger|Snead Architects.

Kelly is selflessly dedicated to social impact and sustainable design. She brings valuable perspective to projects and leverages her experience and technical abilities to ensure social, environmental, and economic project goals are met. She has led a range of project types from concept through construction, including workplace, residential, adaptive reuse, cultural, institutional, and affordable housing. Kelly’s unwavering heart for Baltimore is shown through her work, community involvement, and the restoration of her very own vacated rowhouse. She was the Co-Chair of the AIA Baltimore Lecture Series Committee from 2018-2022 and the Vice President of the Neighborhood Design Center Board of Directors from 2022-2023. She earned a BS.Arch from the Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning and a M.Arch from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. She was a recipient of the GSAPP Incubator prize in 2024 for her personal research project Vacants to Value 2.0: Alternative Methods to Address Hypervacancy in Baltimore.

Board members
President

Madhuri Subramaniam, AIA

President-Elect

Lori Lessem, AIA

Past-President

Ryan Jordan Pfarr, AIA

Treasurer

Lee Hyden, AIA

Secretary

Martin Marren, AIA

Director

Wadiah Akbar, AIA

Director

Kelly Danz, AIA

Director

Brian Helfer, Jr., AIA

Director

Dustin Watson, AIA

Director

Hilary Zoretic, AIA

Allied Member Liaison

Katie Bigelow

Associate Director

Dr. Samia Kirchner, Int’l Assoc. AIA

Bmore NOMA Liaison

Melanie Ray, AIA

NOMAS Liaison

Maureen Kwakye-Dankwa

AIAS Liaison

Ashley Mercadal

Fellows Liaison

Tom Liebel, FAIA

Executive Director

Lauren Bostic Hill