As a landscape architect and urban designer, Laura works toward co-created climate adaptive design that provides the emotional infrastructure to support communities through disruption and change. Bringing together drawing and writing with background in math, ecological systems, and outdoor education, she enjoys the collaborative unpacking of complex spatial challenges across scales and disciplines. She holds a dual master’s degree in landscape architecture and urban planning from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Cornell University. Her academic research investigated post-earthquake “emotional infrastructure” and lived experiences in landscapes of loss. In practice, her R+D work considers managed retreat through an equity lens, suggesting opportunities to shape collaborative and community-driven processes that support self-determination and engage adaptation and retreat on a spectrum.