Design-research practice focuses on sustainable practices, including adaptation strategies for sea level rise, green infrastructure, community-based design, landscapes of affordable housing projects, and local food production.

Recipient of theRome Prize in Landscape Architecture(1995). writings have been published inPlaces Journaland theJournal of Environmental Philosophy, and have been accepted for presentations at several conferences.

Master Environmental Design, Yale University School of Architecture; BSLA, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo