About

I’m a landscape designer and engineer in training at Restoration Design Group in Berkeley, California. I received my Masters in Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design in 2023 and my Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Arizona State University in 2017. Before beginning my graduate studies at Cal, I worked in construction management on commercial site development projects in the Bay Area for four years. At UC Berkeley, I was part of Matt Kondolf’s RiverLab and assisted with his Geomorphic and Ecological Fundamentals of River and Stream Restoration Shortcourse held at the Sagehen Creek Field Station each summer. I’m interested in ecological restoration, fluvial geomorphology, Indigenous land rights and the LandBack movement, and engineering for environmental equity. This portfolio is intended to share my work and personal projects from the last few years and to celebrate nature and the interconnectedness of all things.

I currently live in xučyun (Huichin) territory, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people, who are the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band. I work and benefit from this land and am continuously learning how to be a better steward of it and how to be a better advocate for the Indigenous people who have led (and continue to lead) conservation and restoration efforts for generations.

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2025.02 Curriculum Vitae – Hannah HansenDownload