Michele Grace Hottel, AIA has been practicing Architecture with her namesake Architecture and Design firm, Michele Grace Hottel, Architect, since 1994. Prior to that she was a consultant with other Architecture and Engineering firms in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas attended Cal Poly, Pomona for Architecture. She is a Commissioner and Subject Matter Expert for the California Architects Board, a City of La Mesa Planning Commissioner in her third term, the Chair of the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) Chair of the Custom Residential Architecture Network (CRAN) for the AIA San Diego and Palomar Chapters. She was also the Chair of the Committee for AIA California's Inaugural Housing Forum for attainable housing. She has been on various Boards and Committees promoting art and architecture in the community. You can read her blog inmawomanarchitect dot blogspot dot com and listen to her interviews with other architects at, "I've never met a woman architect before..." a blog about her life... , the trials and tribulations, as one could say, of being a woman, a mother, a wife, a volunteer, a public servant, and last but not least, an architect.