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Michaele Pride-Wells

1956–

United States

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Michaele Pride-Wells (born 1956) is an American architect and educator. She is a professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico. She was the first woman-owned and operated architecture firm in the state of California. Pride-Wells was the founder of the firm RE: Architecture (1989–1996) in California. She was also the first African American woman to head an architecture program in a majority institution when she joined the University of Kentucky in 1996.

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