Mackenzie Waller

Mackenzie Waller is a landscape architect, urban designer and Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona. Her work centers on environmental and spatial justice in the urban built environment. Her current research interests explore how the mediums of story, wildlife, and play can serve as strategies to co-create desired futures, which includes her leadership in the collaborative Santa Cruz River Wildlife Refuge Vision Framework project aimed at advancing ecological stewardship and equitable access to nature across the Tucson region. Her project experience began in environmental restoration and expanded to interdisciplinary approaches to neighborhood and urban public space design. She was formerly a Lecturer in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington. She holds master’s degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture from the University of Washington and a BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley.   

 

To view her professional portfolio, go to www.broad.design, and to learn more about the refuge project, visit www.santacruzrefuge.org.