How Community Stewardship Can Generate Business Development

Kimberly Garza is the Founder and Principal of ATLAS Lab Inc, a woman and minority-owned, mission-driven landscape architecture, urban design, and public art studio. With a steadfast commitment to effecting conscious change in the built environment, Kimberly spearheads initiatives aimed at fostering accessible, positive, and progressive impacts on communities. With twenty years of experience in the field, Kimberly is a seasoned landscape architect, artist, educator, and keynote speaker. Kimberly's dedication to innovation and leadership has earned her accolades, including LAF Fellow for Innovation and Leadership, 40 Under 40 Urban Innovator by NextCity.org and 40 Under 40 Honoree, Sacramento Business Journal.

Sahar Teymouri, ASLA, is a landscape designer interested in learning and applying the socio-cultural aspects of design in her work. Her work focuses on utilizing landscape architecture design as a tool to celebrate art, culture, and nature for different projects. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from North Carolina State University (2017). Sahar completed her Bachelor of Architecture in Iran (2010) where worked in this field before narrowing down her focus to landscape architecture. She is a recipient of 2019 WxLA scholarship.