Grateful for having been born into the profession, I Maria was raised by a landscape architect, and has lived and breathed the business from the beginning of her time. Being picked up in middleschool by a pickup truck with a jungle in the back never phased her and actually became part of her identity as the ‘green girl’, advocating for large scale environmental projects in Guatemala and around the world. Upon graduating with honors from Cornell University, her career path took her to help grow the family business in Guatemala. Later on with a vision for bigger things, fate took her to the US, where she worked at various large companies focusing on commercial and resort design. Finally the last 3 years have been spent nourishing a family and a home grown landscape architecture business in Napa Valley. It has been an adventurous journey!