ABOUT

We bring strategic direction and clarifying vision to complex projects that affect our cities.

Our projects range from designing effective community engagement strategies, driving policy initiatives, and guiding large-scale planning efforts. The core of our expertise is helping governments, organizations, and technical teams bring diverse stakeholders and competing interests together to draw success out of the most complex of projects.

We are a certified Women Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) by the City of Houston and certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) by the Texas Unified Certification Program (TUCP).

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Leah Chambers, AICP, RLA, is a community planner, designer, and policy advisor with extensive experience working in both the private and public sector in the United States and abroad. Her blend of expertise in urban design, civic engagement, landscape architecture, and public policy provides her with a unique capacity to advocate for successful design solutions that are equitable, resilient, and community-driven.

COLLABORATORS

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Kayla Paramore (she/her) is a well-versed and civically-minded communications specialist with experience helping companies and organizations define their messages and build new networks in order to galvanize participation in meaningful projects. She brings a multi-disciplinary approach to adapting complex topics into accessible language for a range of audiences—finding the points of connection between an organization’s strategic goals and an audience’s needs.

Kayla Paramore

Communications specialist

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Vanessa Toro Barragán (she/her) is a multidisciplinary urban planner and strategist with proven experience leading diverse groups through obstacles and high stakes to reach meaningful outcomes. Her deep experience in labor and community organizing is coupled with trainings as an urban planner, leading to programs, policies, and plans crafted by community priorities. Her systems-change perspective centers equity and racial justice and strives to tackle big problems with a people-centered, empathetic, and joyful approach.

Vanessa Toro Barragán

Policy and Facilitation specialist

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Sarah Berberich (she/her) is an experienced social entrepreneur dedicated to promoting social justice through fostering community engagement and social responsibility. With global experience in innovative and collaborative approaches to building bridges across demographically diverse communities, Sarah recognizes the power of elevating all voices in reaching collective “buy-in” and consensus-based decision-making.

Sarah Berberich

Engagement specialist

Our diverse portfolio of transformative projects includes the Harris County’s Community Flood Resilience Task Force, the proposed Google Campus in downtown San Jose,  SPUR's Temporary to Transformative Report, Lone Star Coastal Alliance's Trip Adventures, the Harris County Judge’s Office policy for I-45, and the Grapevine Community at Tejon Ranch.

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