Melanie Ryan
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I'm a Business Development Consultant. I specialize in working with professionals in architecture, public art, and placemaking and the culture that orbits them.
My passion for the built environment has led to careers as Accounts Lead at a creative agency representing award-winning architectural clients to Marketing Director for a prolific Southern California real estate developer to Business Development consulting for clients positioning themselves in Los Angeles.
I aim to work with innovators revered in their industries that wish to expand and nurture opportunities in untapped markets. I especially seek out opportunities and projects for improving public space, in the city-dwelling environments many of us are often in.
BA in Environmental Studies from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL
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A supporter of:
Arts and culture organizations including: RxART and LA Nomadic Division.
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Started a networking group with net, called good-form. To promote designers and creatives to actively engage in play at architecturally significant locations.
Created Standing Invitation, a standing monthly invitation to do one leisurely gathering around design and art with me. Let's visit all the cool projects we read about.
"All intellectual improvement arises from leisure." - Samuel Johnson.
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Personally:
Moonlight design studio with my architect partner, Todd Sussman. We focus on developing our own private residential projects for ourselves - including our first home we designed and built from the ground up in Echo Park.
Nicknamed; The Jungle Gym House, featured here in Architectural Digest and dwell.
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Please connect anytime to chat about ideas.
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