Mace M. Dixon grew up in Natchez, Mississippi where she attended a small Episcopalian school with a grade size of 20. From a young age, she stretched herself thin with a plethora of activities including freestyle biking on her 10-speed, rollerblading in the cemetery, partner stunting in cheerleading, basketball, tennis, years and years of ballet and genteel cotillion training with later advancement in African dance, and concentrated manner studies ala Aunt Carla as well as summer swims at the local garden club. Like any good Southern girl, Mace liked to needlepoint and watch Y&R with her grandmother, named Maybe.

In her 'free time,' she earned extra dough by working at the Historic Natchez Foundation, where she first envisioned herself an architect. It may be no coincidence that Thomas Rose, her great-great grandfather, was the architect of Stanton Hall, a premiere antebellum mansion, or that Katherine Grafton Miller, her great Aunt started the Natchez Pilgrimage, house tours and hoop skirts. Even with her many deep roots, Mace felt there was more for her than what the sleepy southern city had to offer. Mace jumped at an opportunity to attend a boarding school for geeks, where she spent her junior and senior years in North Mississippi. She proceeded to college at Tulane School of Architecture in NOLA. Upon graduation, and completion of architectural travels, she considered moving as far from the Deep South as possible, but sat tight as the architecture profession began reeling from the aftershocks of 9/11...

Mace soon found her love for NOLA outside of the traditional college haunts, Uptown and Bourbon Street, and discovered the enclaves of life that actually make the city thrive. Living in a Post-Katrina city is considered a young architect's paradise, and Mace is set to help rebuild, one skate at a time.