Joseph Kunkel is a community designer and educator based in Santa Fe, NM. He serves as a Principal at Model of Architecture Serving Society (MASS Design Group), where he leads the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab. A citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, Joseph’s work focuses on sustainable design practices that support culturally rooted, ecologically focused development in Indigenous communities and beyond, from affordable housing and healthcare facilities to critical community infrastructure. He is a former Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow and has received the following honors, including the Obama Fellowship (2019), the inaugural Elaine Johnson Coates Award from the University of Maryland (2021), the Rubinger Community Fellowship from LISC (2022), and selection to the Aspen Institute’s Civil Society Fellowship as a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.