Mallory Baches is an urban designer with over twenty years of experience working at the intersection of urban planning and community development. She began her career with Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, leading firm in new urbanist design, development and implementation practices. Evolving from her international work for the firm, she became a founder of its first affiliate office, DPZpacific, overseeing new urbanist work across the Asia-Pacific region. She continues her own urban design practice with both private and public clients, providing award-winning greenfield and infill masterplans, architectural and adaptive reuse concept designs, design codes and urban land use policy guidelines, and strategic planning direction for climate change impact. In addition, she brings extensive experience in the non-profit sector, serving as a staff member, a special advisor, and on governing boards of organizations making an impact through urban change.

Mallory holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame, a Master of Science in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford, and is the CNU-A Fellow at the University of Miami School of Architecture. She is accredited with the American Planning Association (AICP), the U.S. Green Building Council (LEED-AP), and the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU-A). She was named a member of the 2013 Next Urban Vanguard class by Next City, is a former board member and former President of the Association for Community Design, and is a current board member of PLACE Initiative as well as a member the Urban Guild. Her research on historic preservation and social sustainability can be found in New Urban Research, her writing is featured in Smart Cities Policies and Financing: Approaches and Solutions (Elsevier), and her urban design work has been featured by Next City.