Joel Mieses, RA, NOMA was born in the Dominican Republic. He migrated to the United States in 1996 at the  age of 12, and grew up in the Daytona Beach area in Florida. After graduating from High school, Joel attended Florida  A&M University (FAMU), where he completed my Bachelors in Architecture and later a Masters in Landscape  Architecture in 2011. He became a Registered Architect in 2021 after working for the Design Department  of Publix Supermarkets for 7 years. In 2018, Joel's family relocated to Richmond, Virginia, where he currently works at AECOM. Joel, is very active in the community with his fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc., his family church, and passionately promotes the profession of Architecture as an adjunct professor and by mentoring young men and women about the wonders of Architecture.