about

Ari works as a landscape designer on unceded Coast Salish lands (Seattle). Their current research interests include reimagining community-based design in the face of climate crisis, engaging queer landscape histories that resist conventional design documentation, and the agency of landscape architecture in rural places.

They came to landscape architecture after working in urban agriculture, community organizing, and neighborhood economic development in Philadelphia. Before Philly,

they received a BA in Urban Studies from Vassar College. This experience informs their interest in design as a tool for building collective agency and exploring liberatory, equitable futures.