Miriam Diddy

Miriam is a Senior Planner and GIS specialist at Pland Collaborative based in Albuquerque, NM. She has worked as a design professional on planning, mapping, and community engagement efforts for several communities across the Southwest including 13 Tribes. For the past ten years, she has assisted several tribal communities on a variety of planning, building assessment and housing design initiatives. Her work utilizes the power of data to build capacities and empower stakeholders. Through this data-based planning approach, she facilitates the implementation of long-range planning goals to achieve vitality and sustainability in communities. 

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Miriam is a member of the Navajo Nation (Diné) from the Táchíí’nii clan and Hopi with additional Ukrainian heritage. Miriam’s work builds upon both the tangible and intangible elements of planning. Her work focuses on bridging the ties between the contemporary built environment and cultural narratives that honor and recognize the resiliency of indigenous people in everyday places. She’s an advocate of sharing ones’ knowledge and expertise with our local communities especially when it comes to reinforcing the power of data collection, management, capacity building and cultural sovereignty.

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Miriam currently volunteers for several non-profits and organizations including as Region Director for Deserts & Xeric Shrublands for the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design, Secretary for the American Indian Council of Architects and Engineers (AICAE), recent Steering Committee Member for the Tribal + Indigenous Planning Division of the American Planning Association (APA), and Board Member of Creative Startups.