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Today on the show we have 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 his 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 worked as a Sports and Recreation Designer for CHA Consulting. Currently Joel is a Project Manager for AECOM. He 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. Joel and his wife have been together for 10 years and are raising four children.