Our Team

Current Staff

Soolyeon Cho, PhD

Soolyeon Cho, PhD

Soolyeon Cho, PhD, is Interim Director of NLI; Associate Dean of Research, Doctoral Programs, and Global Engagement; Professor of Architecture; ... read more

Nilda Cosco, PhD

Nilda Cosco, PhD

Nilda Cosco, PhD, is Director of Programs at NLI, Research Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and former Director ... read more

Robin C. Moore

Robin C. Moore

Robin Moore, MCP, Hon. ASLA, is Director Emeritus of NLI and Professor of Landscape Architecture. He is former President of the International ... read more

Mary Archer

Mary Archer

Mary Archer, PLA, MHS, is a Landscape Architect and Design Associate at NLI where she manages comprehensive programs including POD Wake County ... read more

Matthew Babb

Matthew Babb

Matthew (Matt) Babb, MGD, is a UX/Communication Designer at NLI where he works on web content and the many print documents, online resources, ... read more

Brandon Dupree

Brandon Dupree

Brandon Dupree, MLA, ASLA, is a Design Assistant at the Natural Learning Initiative where he aids in the design of outdoor learning ... read more

Daniel Jost

Daniel Jost

Daniel (Dan) Jost, MLA, ASLA, is a Research Assistant at NLI and a PhD student at North Carolina State University, where he works on the ... read more

Current Student Research & Teaching Assistants

Melissa Amoabeng

Melissa Manjarrez Dominguez

Greta Lincoln

Shabnam Mohammadzadeh

Iffat Nova

Ayla Pettry

Noah Weaver

Past Team Members

Deepti Adlakha

Eyyad Al-Khalaileh

Eve Anderson

Caroline Asher

Brad Bieber

Mary Anne Bifulco

Julie Carlson

Sudeshna Chatterjee

Wen Yie Chen

Yu Chun Chiu

Catherine Dorwart

Tom Danninger

Carla Delcambre

Evrim Demir

Catherine Dorwart

Kurtis Durrant

Heather Ecklund

Eric Filo

Kristen Ford

Andrew Fox

Rachel Freyer

Mohsen Ghiasi Ghorveh

Katherine Gill

Madeline Gresh

Nataliya Gurina

Brandon Guy

Michael Hasenmyer

Melissa Henao-Robledo

Megan Hoert

Jin Hou

Mohammed Zakiul Islam

Zaki Islam

Darryl S. Jones

Manpreet Kaur

Saba Kawas

Charlotte Kennedy

Orcun Kepez

Sarah Konradi

Jeff Kurtz

R Ben Lawrence

Jong Seon Lee

Zhouwei Li

Kilara Little

Sarah Little

Laura Lloyd

Matthew Maharaj

Bob Massengale

Joanna Massey

Kathy Massey-Sims

Muntazar Monsur

Julie Murphy

Mary Musson

Shweta Nanekar

Matthew Paterson

Sevanne Person

Kristen Reberg-Horton

Alice Reese

Michele Rivest

Iris Roberts

Sarah Safley

John Salzano

Rifat Sharmin

Julie Sherk

Bria Sledge

Ilisa Sokolic

Olivia Spyra

Karli Stephenson

Clara Tang

Brian Taylor

Michelle Townsley

Jesse Turner

Eli Valsing

Jessica VanNess

Shirley Varela

Kelaine Vargas

Heather Vickeny

Virginia Wallace

Alexzandria Walters

Sadie Walters

Liz Westbrook

Susan E. Wilson

Claudia R. Winegarden

Yuguo Wu

Syeda Zaman

Zahra Zamani