Honoree Profile
Mel Chotiner
- Position: Interior Designer, Associate
- Firm: Wright Heerema Architects
- Tenure at Firm: 5.5 Years
- Nominating Director: Scott Delano, AIA, IIDA, Design Director
- Age: 39
- School: University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- Major: Architectural Studies with an Interior Design emphasis
“Mel is a talented, passionate, and dedicated designer. Her contributions to WHA have been recognized with her role as an Associate on the company’s leadership team, and were earned through her design leadership on projects as well as her mentoring of junior staff members. She has a keen design eye, and can adeptly move from designing for building repositioning, and clients in workplace in tech, pharmaceutical, professional services, financial, etc. sectors. A true all-around talent, she designs with a rare attention and sensitivity to the client’s needs, and expresses the client’s ethos and culture in the work that she produces. It would be difficult to match Mel’s unique and powerful blend of knowledge, talent, passion, and dedication in any professional, and WHA is both lucky and grateful to call her a leader in our practice.”