Meet The Team

Driven by a passion to continue his father’s legacy, Jonathan D. Moody has entrenched himself in firm leadership, driving growth and innovation. Moody Nolan has grown to over 350 employees and 12 offices across the nation. The firm’s designs have now won over 300 design citations including 47 from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and 44 from the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA). Jonathan has helped continue and extend the firm’s position as the largest African American- owned architecture firm. Moody Nolan continues to garner national attention by promoting “diversity by design.”

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Jonathan has nearly 20 years of high-end design experience focused on integrating digital fabrication and social engagement into the design process. He approaches design with an overall goal of having a major positive impact on communities in need. For Jonathan, architecture is a medium through which people can be connected and inspired by giving tangible being to ideas. Over the last several years, he has passionately devoted himself to community service through mentoring and education programs focused on empowering underserved youth.

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A former designer for the Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design and Eisenman Architects, Jonathan’s background is focused on 3D visual presentation and digital fabrication. Most recently, he has worked on a variety of civic, sports, education, healthcare, and institutional projects. While working on projects, Jonathan is also deeply engaged in strategic implementation of Moody Nolan’s long-term aspirations.

Nooni Reatig, AIA is an architect, artist, and developer. As a partner at Suzane Reatig Architecture, she oversees all in house developments and is involved in all phases of the firm’s architect led developments, including: feasibility and entitlements, schematic design through construction documents, construction project management, marketing, and leasing. She specializes in mixed-use multifamily urban infill projects and brings her expertise from a fine arts foundation to her work in the built environment.

Reatig’s creative approach to three-dimensional thinking bridges the rational process of construction with the flexible and changing lifestyle needs of urban dwellers. Reatig specializes in integrating composition and color into the design of building skins and solving the puzzle of how to bring light and air into all spaces within a larger building mass. Her measure of success is a building that maximizes financial, social, and environmental standards to achieve an equilibrium between quantitative and qualitative value. She believes that the buildings we live and work in should be designed sustainably to the highest measure of ecology, innovation and culture, raising the standard for community, and quality of life.

As an extension of the firm’s philosophy, Reatig believes that design accountability carries beyond the home and into public space. Nooni actively lectures and participates in promoting art and architectural dialogue.

Over the course of her career, Danielle Tillman has become an expert at infusing architecture with social consciousness. Her orientation toward community service and civic engagement has drawn her to education and institutional projects.

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Danielle’s specialty is built environments that naturally integrate into their communities. With a focus on urban planning, she cultivates relationships with neighborhood leaders and residents, synthesizing their requirements and feedback into the project program.

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In addition to education and institutional projects, Danielle’s global portfolio includes mixed-use and residential developments. She was a member of the team that developed the 2016 Chicago Olympic Village housing bid.

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Danielle earned a BS in Mathematics from Spelman College and a Master of Architecture Degree (MArch) from the University of Michigan. She holds a Certificate in Real Estate Development and is a member of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), the AIA Chicago Foundation Board, Business Leadership Council, Board of Advisors of the College of Architecture at IIT, the International Women’s Forum (IWF), Urban Land Institute (ULI), Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA) and CREW Chicago. Danielle has also been appointed as a Commissioner for the Chicago Plan Commission. She is a licensed architect in the state of Illinois.

A native of Ecuador, Andres earned his Bachelor’s in Architecture at Catholic University in Guayaquil. His time as a designer at the ‘Guayaquil Historic Park,’ where innovations in bamboo, reclaimed wood, and other non-traditional construction were typical, taught him to value simplicity in design and economy in the material. Andres also enjoyed his time as Design Studio and Materials and Methods professor at the Architecture School at Catholic University, where he promoted architecture as a true instrument of social change.

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Andres Pacheco joined VMDO in 2013 and has more than 20 years of experience working on multiple projects in varied climates and cultures like China, India, Ecuador, Europe, and the U.S. His experience working across a range of project types has nurtured his innate curiosity and drive to express the unique qualities of a project and its place through the medium of design.

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Andres’ approach uses big ideas to push the boundaries of design opportunities, discovering holistic solutions that maximize existing site resources and reap healthy benefits for end users. He recently served as the lead Project Designer Architect for Lubber Run Community Center, which was a recipient of an AIA National Architecure Award. The project implements an innovative site approach to preserve precious open space, embedding an array of community programming underground beneath a folding, green landscape. He also served as the lead Project Designer Architect for the renovation of Thurston Hall at George Washington University, which creates a vibrant, urban courtyard at its center.

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