Alex’s love for California landscapes began as a child growing up in Santa Cruz, California. She has over a decade of experience practicing landscape architecture in the Bay Area, including roles in both the public and private sector. Her dual background in both planning and landscape architecture allows her to transition easily between scales and her work spans master planning to construction documentation and administration.

Alex’s publications include “Landscapes of the Dead: An Argument for Conservation Burial” (Berkeley Planning Journal Volume 25: New Spaces of Insurgency, 2012), “Burnt Leaf AR” (Ground Up Journal Issue 10: Breathe, 2021), and “The Potrero Eco-Patch: An Experimental Framework for Designing and Gardening with Native Plants” (co-authored with Nicki Copley for Pacific Horticulture, 2021).

Alex also practices as a creative technologist whose work explores how technology can assist creative thinking and its potential for reframing how people interact with and perceive plants, landscapes, and ecology. More information about Alex’s creative technology practice can be found at www.alexandraharker.com. 

Alex lives in the Mission District of San Francisco, where she currently volunteers as a working group member for the SFMTA Potrero Yard Modernization Project, which combines 575 units of affordable housing with a public transit facility on a 4.4 acre lot. She enjoys going on walks around the neighborhood with her husband and 4-year-old daughter.