I bring together public, private, and nonprofit partners to integrate impactful ways to engage communities that have historically been left out of planning and design processes. My equity-centered approach to community engagement, rooted in qualitative research and community members’ lived experiences, translates into meaningful physical, material, and programmatic strategies that reflect how communities want to be seen and engage in our cities.

My twenty year career includes over twelve years as a landscape architect, strengthening the quality of and access to public space across the East Coast, California, and the Pacific Northwest. Since then I’ve translated my design and planning experiences towards community research, program design, cultural activations, leadership development, and strategic partnership development at the Landscape Architecture Foundation, The Urban Studio, and the 1882 Foundation. For the past four years, I’ve served as Design Director at Openbox, where I led both cultural and infrastructure planning projects alongside municipal, nonprofit, and design partners.

My love of place, the communities that shape them, and the ecology systems that sustain them, grounds the work I do today to drive more equitable and just outcomes in our cities.