Michaele Pride-Wells

Michaele Pride-Wells (born 1956) She was the first woman-owned and operated architecture firm in the state of 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. She was the first woman-owned and operated architecture firm in the state of California. In 1995, she served as an architectural consultant for the Leimert Park neighborhood developments, funded by the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative.

By 1996, she closed her firm in California to moved to Lexington, Kentucky. She served as the director of the University of Kentucky's downtown community design center starting in 1996; and "became the first African American woman to head an architecture program in a majority institution". She was one of the fifteen judges for the creation of the Oklahoma Bombing Memorial (now known as the Oklahoma City National Memorial). In 2001, she graduated with a M.AUD in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

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