Alyson is interested in how the practice of landscape architecture can be leveraged to advance social justice and equity. Through her own travels and years of hosting visitors from around the world, she has gained a global perspective on how design impacts marginalized people and communities, including refugees and the unhoused. Along with the her role at Rock Design Associates, she serves as president of the Colorado non-profit, Tiny Villages Inc., whose mission is to develop tiny home communities for the state’s unhoused population. Alyson earned her landscape architecture degree from Utah State, where her design work was recognized by the Utah ASLA and APA, and where she was awarded the Craig Johnson Scholarship for high achievement in the department by the faculty. In her personal time Alyson has been working with the Slovenia Department of Cultural Preservation to restore an 18th-century farmhouse in the hills of Zagorje ob Savi and to develop the property into an organic farm using local agricultural practices.