Sarah Moos Thompson, PLA, ASLA, APA is an urban designer and a licensed landscape architect, and believes that diverse community and ecological needs can be aligned using innovative landscape strategies to transform ordinary spaces. Sarah has worked with Bionic for 14+ years and brings extensive experience to entitlements of complex projects and resilience planning through a creative approach to visioning, strategizing, and community engagement. She has an analytical approach and developed expertise for communicating complicated landscape and urban design concepts to clients, communities, and agencies for lasting positive change. Sarah has led teams for many of Bionic’s most complex and award-winning projects, including the Rebuild Lahaina Plan for Lahaina, Maui, the Santa Barbara Waterfront Adaptation Plan, the India Basin Waterfront Park, The San Francisco Moscone Corridor, the Islais Creek Corridor Watershed Plan, the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, the Malibu Public Works Plan, and the Dublin Center of Innovation Wetlands Complex. She has also been nationally recognized for her urban design proposals including the Curbed Young Guns Finalist award, ASLA Honors Awards, and the SPUR Piero N. Patri Fellowship. Sarah’s design thinking as a landscape strategist has been published in Landscape Architecture Magazine, the University of Pennsylvania’s Scenario Journal, Built Environment, and Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions.
