Rodney Leon, founder and principal of Rodney Leon Architect PLLC has an architectural background as a designer on a diversity of project types including housing, sacred spaces and memorials  in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Leon has focused his professional efforts on the design of public spaces and has developed an expertise in modern “Culturally Contextual” design, Master Planning and Mixed Use Housing Development. Mr. Leon is the designer of the African Burial Ground Memorial in New York City which is the first National Monument in the United States dedicated to the contributions of people of African descent. He has also the designer of The United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade at the United Nations entitled "Ark of Return."  

His firm is currently working on an exhibition space for The Cultural Museum of African Art in Brooklyn, NY. Mr. Leon received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute School of Architecture in 1992 and his Masters of Architecture from Yale University in 1995.