Molly Felde
Molly Felde is an Architect by training but a humanitarian at heart. When picking out faucets for wealthy clients lost its appeal she escaped to teach architecture on a remote Pacific island—a place where most inhabitants drink their water unfiltered from nearby streams and have been building their own houses since the age of four. For three years Molly taught design thinking and the creative process at the University of Technology in Papua New Guinea, “The Land of the Unexpected.”
Molly has spent more than half of her life working in the world of design and design thinking. As a child growing up in East Tennessee she alternated pouring through National Geographic images with design magazines, and in the end chose architecture. She earned a BA in Design and a minor in Psychology at Clemson University followed by a Masters in Architecture at the University of Minnesota. She has worked in Minneapolis, New York, France, Tanzania, and Papua New Guinea on international and local projects, from private hospitals to public schools, high-end residential work, and small, local builds.
As long as she can remember her fingers have been making, her eyes have been set on travel, and her heart on saving the world. Spoiler alert—she fails at the latter. Molly lives in Katonah, NY, with her husband, a journalist for the New York Times, and two sons under four who have taken the keyboard hostage—please excuse their typos.