Nicole Stern: Director of Environmental Design
Landscape Architect, Site Assessor, Lead Instructor
Nicole Stern is a landscape architect focused on regenerative design, green infrastructure, and integrated water systems. Over the past two decades, she has worked on watershed planning, ecological restoration, innovative stormwater management, constructed wetlands for wastewater filtration and reuse, native xeriscaping, urban ecology, and environmental justice projects in the US and internationally. Many of her team projects have achieved LEED Platinum, Living Building Challenge and SITES certifications. In addition to work in her native state of California, she has also worked extensively in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed while based in Baltimore, MD and in the high desert southwest while living in Santa Fe, NM.