Caroline Bailey
Company: GrantWorks, Inc
Title: Hazard Mitigation Planner
Caroline is passionate about bringing disabled perspectives to urban planning and related fields, and integrating resiliency into urban planning. She also enjoys reading all the books, happy hours, playing board games, and trying new things that seem uniquely Austin such as axe-throwing and bouldering.
Clark Bockhahn
Company: Nudge Design
Title: Designer
Clark Bockhahn plays an integral role in successfully guiding complex landscape architecture projects — ranging from large corporate campuses and adaptive reuse endeavors to communities and context-sensitive roadway solutions. In this role, he works to conceive of creative, contextually responsive project solutions and bring them to built reality.
Nathlie Booth
Company: GrantWorks, Inc
Title: Planner
Nathlie is interested in the relationship between nature and the built environment. She strives to create a stronger connection between people and their environment through design and planning. Outside of work, Nathlie enjoys spending time with her cats, playing board games, woodworking, exploring new parts of Austin, and trying new foods.
Katie Coyne
Company: Asakura Robinson
Title: Urban Ecology Studio Lead
Katie leads the Urban Ecology Studio at Asakura Robinson where she works on planning and design projects specifically targeting increased resiliency from urban to rural areas, restoring ecosystem function on small-sites and across regions, conserving open space and facilitating sustainable public access, leveraging the protection of natural resources toward equity goals, and using data and research to drive the design of multi-functional green infrastructure sites and networks.
Kyle Grist
Company: dwg.
Title: Landscape Designer
Over the past seven years Kyle Grist has worked on a variety of project types and sizes throughout Texas. Gaining valuable experience in Houston’s diverse market, Kyle introduces a dynamic perspective to his projects in Austin. Originally from the grasslands of Kansas, Kyle’s passion for creating outdoor spaces stems from an appreciation of the native prairie and a keen understanding of human interaction within the built environment.
lauren ko
Company: dwg.
Title: Landscape Designer
Lauren is passionate about all elements of design, especially designing places that elevate both humanity and the natural systems. She is excited to be part of an organization that brings design professionals together and meeting people with the same passion for design. In Lauren's spare time you can find her outside kayaking or running around Town Lake. She is an advocate for Austin Pets Alive and enjoys cooking, watercoloring, and traveling.
alex radtke
Company: The Governor's Office of Economic Development and Tourism
Title: Project Coordinator
Alex is committed to sparking curiosity and connections between different professional disciplines in order to build a stronger community. Outside of work, she can be found exploring coffee shops, enjoying a good book or taking a walk through her local neighborhood.
rachel tepper
Company: Perkins + Will
Title: Urban Designer
Rachel is committed to helping citizens exercise power to shape their cities. Trained as both a graphic designer and an urban planner, she believes that government should be accessible, inclusive, and fun. Outside of the office, Rachel enjoys swimming, reading cooking, and spending time with her cat, and hunting for the best vegetarian food in Austin.
Alex Brown
Company: TBG
Title: Landscape Designer
Alex went to Paris at an impressionable age and has been obsessed with making cities more livable ever since. He enjoys travelling to other countries as well as exploring the wild(er) parts of the US.
Brianna Frey
Company: Asakura Robinson
Title: Associate Planner
Brianna is dedicated to bringing together Austin’s young professionals to strengthen existing community relationships and find opportunities to collaborate. She enjoys spending her free time volunteering with various local organizations in Austin, TX. She also enjoys traveling, playing soccer at Zilker Park, spending time with her golden retriever, and trying all the restaurants Austin has to offer.
Adrianne Kartachak
Company: University of Texas at Austin + TBG Partners
Title: MLA Candidate + TBG Partners Intern
Adrianne is a current MLA candidate at UT Austin and an intern at TBG Partners. She enjoys bringing people together to collaborate and socialize and believes strong relationships are the bread and butter of any profession. She enjoys camping, volunteering, woodworking, traveling and exploring always.
Kelsey Ross
Company: TBG Partners
Title: Associate
Kelsey is passionate about cross-disciplinary problem solving as a way to build healthier and more inclusive communities. She enjoys running along Town Lake, taking her dogs to Shoal Creek, and recording all of her travels in her sketchbook.
kari spiegelhalter
Company: Asakura Robinson
Title: Urban Ecological Designer
As an Urban Ecological Designer for Asakura Robinson, Kari works on a broad range of sustainability and equity-related planning and design projects that enhance urban ecosystems, public health, and environmental justice. She is interested in how participatory design processes build ecological and social resilience in communities and cities.
Rachel Warburton
Company: Pharis Design
Title: Landscape Designer
Rachel’s interest in landscape architecture is rooted in the idea of therapeutic design. She aspires to design ecologically restorative spaces which bring people together and positively impact their mental, physical, and emotional health while improving the ecological health of the landscape. She is a huge plant nerd and bee enthusiast and enjoys long walks around the lake with her dog, Lil’ Honey.