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  • Landscape Designer

    Abby recently graduated with distinction from the University of New Mexico, earning a Master of Landscape Architecture degree. Her master’s thesis focused on advancing the field through computational design and analytical modeling, demonstrating her commitment to innovative and data-driven approaches in landscape architecture. Abby brings a multifaceted background to the Anthropopulus team, combining technical expertise with a creative foundation. She holds a Permaculture Design Certificate and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, which together enrich her ability to approach projects with a balance of ecological sensitivity, artistic insight, and practical design solutions.

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  • Principal Landscape Architect

    As co-founding principal of Anthropopulus, Amy brings more than eighteen years of experience in urban planning and landscape architecture, with a unique focus on community building and creative placemaking. She works with each client to tailor the design and planning process for meaningful community engagement, partnership building, and outcomes that meet identified needs. Her technical assistance with over 30 Affiliated New Mexico MainStreet communities gives her valuable experience with the highly variable and unique environments in our state and makes her uniquely aware of the connections between safe transportation networks, recreational access, and local, asset-based economic development. Amy has managed numerous public planning and design projects to successful completion, balancing strong technical skills with creative problem-solving and a love for process.

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  • Landscape Designer

    Prior to landscape architecture, Daniel was the founder and principal of a racial equity consultancy for twelve years. In that role, he worked with nonprofits and government agencies to advance justice in communities they worked with across the U.S. Daniel designed and delivered nearly 400 workshops to over 2,500 participants and engaged more than 3,000 members of the public. He brings from this work over a decade of experience in facilitation, community engagement, team leadership, and project management. Given his passion for ecological and cultural healing, Daniel’s work focused on the intersections of urban planning, environmental justice, and organizational change. Recently graduated with a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan, Daniel contributes to our team’s ability to fully integrate community engagement with planning and design outcomes.

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  • Associate Landscape Architect

    Emily is a well-rounded, licensed landscape architect with over eighteen years’ experience working through all phases of landscape design and construction. Her portfolio includes public sector work at the local, state, and federal levels, institutional, commercial and residential projects. She has teamed with owners, managers, architects, engineers, and ecologists to successfully complete a wide-range of project types including public parks, playgrounds, school campuses, cemeteries, pleasure gardens, urban commercial developments, ecological restoration, historic sites, and stewardship plans. Emily is a creative designer who strives to form unique places that connect people to natural processes and to each other.

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  • Landscape Designer

    Holly is a graduate student in the Landscape Architecture program at the University of New Mexico with an expected graduate date in the Spring of 2026. Her design interest centers around post-industrial landscapes to build more ecologically resilient, welcoming, and joyful public space. With a background in digital media and marketing, Holly brings a strong communication background to the Anthropopulus team. She aims to combine community engagement, public planning, and design projects to become a future activist landscape architect.

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  • Community Planner

    Maren has a background in agriculture, natural resource planning, community development, and program management in the Pacific Northwest. With the Anthropopulus team, she has managed several successful planning efforts rooted in a high level of community involvement. Her research, while obtaining her Masters Degree in Community and Regional Planning at UNM centered on Arts and Cultural Districts, rural placemaking, Indigenous planning, and community economic development. Maren has helped Anthropopulus build our expertise in planning and implementing Metropolitan Redevelopment Areas, meaningful community engagement for transportation safety planning, and capacity-building through planning process. She brings exceptional skills in site assessment, inventory, GIS mapping and analysis, and technical writing.

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  • Community Planner & Irrigation Designer

    Richard has 20 years of experience in the landscape industry, specializing in low water and adaptive landscapes and irrigation efficiency. As the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Authority’s Irrigation Efficiency Specialist, Richard was the project lead on the ABCWUA Irrigation Efficiency Guide, ABCWUA WaterSense Smart Irrigation Controller Study, and contributed to the development of educational materials that aligned with Water 2120 and the 2037 Water Conservation Plan. His research for his planning degree has included the cultural and psychological impact of lawns. Richard brings a diverse set of skills in irrigation design, installation, and maintenance, community engagement, participatory process, data collection and analysis, and technical writing.

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  • Landscape Architect

    Ted brings eleven years’ professional landscape design experience to Anthropopulus. He enjoys working on a wide range of project scales from the intimate to the institutional and believes that successful landscape-architectural projects integrate geographic, social and ecological systems to provide value and meaning. Ted works closely with the rest of the team to prepare project documentation including technical drawings and research, as well as engagement tools and presentations. He has worked with our team on several projects that express community identity and strengthen sense of place through design.

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  • Principal Landscape Architect

    As a co-founding principal of Anthropopulus, Will has eighteen years’ experience practicing landscape architectural design, conducting project management, and providing construction administration in New Mexico. He offers a solid landscape architectural foundation for the team with a focus that balances excellent design with constructability. His clients are diverse, including universities, schools, private companies, small towns, larger municipalities, county, state, and federal government, tribes, and health care providers. He has successfully completed numerous types of projects including trails, campgrounds, parks, streetscapes, cultural landscape studies, playgrounds, schools, campuses, master plans, and sports facilities. Will has extensive irrigation design experience, having designed irrigation systems (both new and renovations) for almost every project completed over the course of his career.

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  • Anthropup

    Juni is an expert at reading the project site, engaging community with joy and enthusiasm, and reminding us all not to take ourselves too seriously (unless snacks are involved.) An intrepid explorer and steadfast friend, Juni helps us plan and design with compassion for our non-human counterparts.