McKissack & McKissack received the African American Business of the Year Award at the Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of Commerce 19th Annual Economic Awards Dinner on March 22nd. View More »
March 2012Deryl McKissack was featured in Womenetics.com, which celebrates women in the workplace and focuses on grooming future leaders. View More »
January 2012Fox News covered Deryl McKissack and Lisa Ander's involvement in the design and construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial. The two women are breaking down barriers in a male dominated industry. View More »
November 2011In 1990, McKissack founded McKissack & McKissack, an architecture, environmental engineering and program-management firm. The 50-year-old solo entrepreneur has since made her mark on the local business scene. View More »
November 2011The Trust for the National Mall has announced the finalists in a design competition that aims to restore and improve three prominent sites on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. View More »
October 2011"For many who helped dedicate the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Sunday, the towering granite monument is a stark reminder that the civil rights leader's dream of social and economic justice has yet to be realized." View More »
October 2011"Thousands of people gathered at dawn Sunday to give the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial a proper dedication on the National Mall after its opening in August." View More »
October 2011"She founded McKissack & McKissack in 1990, an outgrowth of her family's business - the oldest minority owned architecture and engineering firm in the country." View More »
September 2011"Architecture and engineering firm McKissack & McKissack celebrated its 20th anniversary on Thursday night with a rooftop dinner at the Potomac View Terrace atop the American Pharmaceutical Association..." View More »
October 2011Deryl McKissack speaks on her architectural firm's responsibilities building Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. View More »
October 2011Deryl McKissack is overjoyed that all of her hard work has finally paid off, and says the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is one of the most beautiful monuments on the National Mall. View More »
August 2011"The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial is the first on the National Mall to honor a man of hope, a man of peace, and a man of color. Located on the Tidal Basin, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial creates a visual line of leadership between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials." View More »
August 2011"The decades-long dream to create the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial in Washington, D.C., becomes a reality on Aug. 28." View More »
August 2011"A quarter-million people will gather on and adjacent to the four-acre plot on the northeast corner of the Tidal Basin to dedicate a monument to Martin Luther King’s legacy and its location on American History’s Main Street." View More »
August 2011"Rod Gillum, a former vice president of corporate responsibility and diversity at General Motors Co., will play only a small role in the dedicating of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial — but considers the memorial itself a huge achievement." View More »
August 2011"A week of events is planned in Washington, D.C. around the unveiling of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial. The official dedication of the King National Memorial on the National Mall." View More »
August 2011"Excitement is building over next Sunday's planned dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, especially among those who have been working behind the scenes to create the 4-acre site on Washington's National Mall. Smithsonian Magazine quotes engineer Deryl McKissack as saying that it is finally sinking in for her." View More »
August 2011"Building this national monument was a complicated undertaking, a joint venture between four companies. Among them, the architecture firm of McKissack & McKissack..." View More »
August 2011"A week of events is planned in Washington, D.C. around the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall on Sunday, Aug. 28, the 48th anniversary of the day King delivered his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech." View More »
August 2011"Thousands will gather in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to dedicate a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. on the 48th anniversary of his legendary “I Have A Dream” speech." View More »
August 2011"Martin Luther King Jr. stood 30 feet tall on the National Mall as a memorial to him was unveiled on Monday morning — the first memorial on the Mall not dedicated to a war, president or white man." View More »
August 2011"On the National Mall today, a historic moment. After years of debate, fundraising and construction, a monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. opened to the public." View More »
August 2011"Martin Luther King Jr stood 30 feet (9 meters) tall as a memorial to him was unveiled on Monday, the first on the National Mall in the nation's capital not dedicated to a war, president or white man." View More »
August 2011"Fifteen years after a Congressional Joint Resolution in 1996 to establish a memorial in Washington, D.C. to honor King, the four-acre site on the Tidal Basin between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials opened to the public for the first time." View More »
August 2011"The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. was created specifically to build the monument, a venture that has been more than a decade in the making." View More »
August 2011"Excitement is building over next Sunday's planned dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, especially among those who have been working behind the scenes to create the 4-acre site on Washington's National Mall." View More »
August 2011"On Monday August 22, a powerful figure of American history was prodigiously cemented in world history at the grand unveiling of the long-awaited Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial site." View More »
August 2011"In early August, as the finishing touches are being made to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., Deryl McKissack waits in a trailer on the premises..." View More »
August 2011"On August 28, 2011, the 48th anniversary of the momentous March on Washington, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial will be officially dedicated." View More »
July 2011"The Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation's leadership today announced a $1 million gift from the memorial's design build joint venture team, MTTG." View More »
July 2011"Deryl McKissack, president and CEO of McKissack & McKissack, and Lisa Anders, senior project manager, MLK Memorial, are eager to unveil to the world a project that is near and dear to their hearts, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial." View More »
July 2011"Pulled together by project president Harry Johnson, the exceedingly renowned architecture and design firm of McKissack and McKissack, and with the help of literally thousands of others, this has been and continues to be a project-in-progress to marvel at and praise for what it has been able to get done." View More »
July 2011June 2011
"'I started with a $1,000, a really good business plan and a lot of passion,' says Deryl McKissack. She heads one of the leading women and minority owned architecture firms in America." View More »
June 2011"The MTTG design/build joint venture team...have announced construction is progressing with significant participation of minority and women-owned business enterprise (MWBE) firms on the Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial." View More »
June 2011"The Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. and the project's design/build team made inclusion and a spirit of diversity on the project a top priority to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr." View More »
March 2011"The Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation on March 2 received a one-million-dollar gift from MTTG Joint Venture -- the design-build team which will construct a memorial in the Capitol Mall honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." View More »
Winter 2011Fall 2009
"The McKissack sisters, twins Cheryl...and Deryl...and sibling Andrea McKissack Krupinski, share several attributes. They all have infectious laughs, they are all creative and they all attended Howard University." View More »
Fall 2009"We are proud to introduce a new tier of sponsorship, as well as our very first sponsor at this level – McKissack & McKissack of Washington, Inc. (McKissack & McKissack) The firm has donated office space and basic office resources for the 2009-2010 program year." View More »
May 2009"Deryl McKissack, and Cheryl McKissack, punctuate converstations with identical laughs. The twin sisters, both 1983 civil engineering graduates of Howard University..." View More »
2009"Deryl McKissack, is the president and CEO of McKissack & McKissack, a firm she founded in 1990 that now encompasses five major divisions: architecture & interiors, program & construction management, planning & facilities management, environmental engineering, and transportation." View More »
Fall 2008"The Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc and the McKissack & McKissack/Turner Construction Company/Gilford Corporation/Tompkins Builders, Inc. Joint Venture, announced that..." View More »
August 2008April 2008
"In 1990, when Deryl McKissack decided to carry on her family's architecture and engineering legacy, she had $1000 in the bank and one employee: herself. Eighteen years later, the CEO of McKissack & McKissack oversees 150 people..." View More »
Fall 2007"As an outgrowth of her historic family business, she founded her practice to create the accomplished architectural, environmental engineering and program management fi rm that exists today." View More »
August 2007"The Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. and the project's design/build team made inclusion and a spirit of diversity on the project a top priority to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. The project has achieved a significant milestone of 56 percent minority MWBE participation..." View More »
August 2007June 2007
"The head of a minority-owned engineering firm will oversee construction of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall. Deryl McKissack, president of the Washington-based firm McKissack & McKissack, will lead a joint venture design-build team for the project..." View More »
June 2007"D.C. engineering firm McKissack and McKissack will lead the design and building team for the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial planned for the National Mall." View More »
June 2007"The head of a minority-owned engineering firm will oversee construction of the Martin Luther King memorial on the National Mall. Deryl McKissack, president of the Washington-based firm McKissack and McKissack, will lead a joint venture design-build team for the project." View More »
May 2007"Deryl McKissack was born with a blueprint for her future: She would attend college. She would study engineering. She would go into the family architectural engineering business." View More »
March 2007"Like most design firms, McKissack & McKissack provides clients and visitors with a colorful, richly detailed portfolio of its many architectural, engineering and program management achievements." View More »
November 2005September 2004
May 2004
"When Deryl McKissack opened McKissack & McKissack in December of 1990, she knew that, in addition to the expected challenges facing any female minority entrepreneur in a male-dominated industry..." View More »
September 2003June 2003
"The boom in program management has led to rapid growth in some firms. McKissack and McKissack is one. "We started out as an architectural firm in 1990," says CEO Deryl McKissack. But she says the firm's big break came when it was named program manager for reconstruction..." View More »
March 2002"A product of the famous McKisssack family...McKissack Greene has taken a family tradition started nearly a century ago and built one of the most prominent architectural firms on the East Coast." View More »
November 1998"Urban areas are undergoing dramatic changes and providing key opportunities for African American architects as local municipalities rediscover the potential of urban renewal." View More »
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