Brianda Cerda is a landscape designer from San Francisco, California interested in the intersection of history, culture and space making. She received her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and was awarded the Scott Traveling Fellowship upon graduation, to do independent research on non-Western land practices and place-making within different Indigenous/Aboriginal communities throughout the world including Australia, Hawaiʻi and Mexico. Her research and work have been one of storytelling and centering Indigenous/Aboriginal voices in the landscape, as an example of leading social and environmental design movements. Now as a student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, her work continues to be focused on cultural placemaking as a means of social and cultural resistance and autonomy. 

Awards:

2021 ASLA Honor Award

2021 Scott Traveling Fellowship