Cheryl McKissack Daniel is a civil engineer, a graduate of Howard University, and the award-winning Chair of the Board of McKissack & McKissack. She serves as principal-in-charge and project executive on numerous high-profile projects, including major work in the commercial, healthcare, education, and transportation sectors. She serves on numerous, corporate, charitable, and community boards, and has been honored as a “Hero of Liberty” for her support of humanitarian initiatives and for promoting the responsibilities of a free and diverse America. Born in Nashville to architect William DeBerry and teacher, Leatrice Buchanan McKissack, Cheryl represents the fifth generation of the McKissack family’s century-old business, the oldest minority and woman-owned professional design and construction firm in the nation. She resides in New York. The McKissack & McKissack headquarters is in mid-town NY, with the sister office in Philadelphia, and other satellite offices around the country.