Devon Miller, PLA

Director [ Oakland, CA ]

Devon Miller (she/her) is a licensed landscape architect and FWD’s Director of Projects in the Oakland office.
At FWD she seeks opportunities for creative, transdisciplinary collaboration that reimagine our relationship to each other and our land.
Past work includes implementing resilient landscapes for affordable housing communities throughout Northern California, creating an iconic public playscape at Stinson Beach and designing sustainable, LEED Gold-certified roof gardens and stormwater infrastructure in San Francisco.
Devon holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Art History from Wellesley College and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design.
Born and raised in California, she spent formative years living in a remote mountain valley in the Ventana Wilderness, east of the Big Sur coast.

Ellen Garrett, PLA

Director [ Brooklyn, NY ]

Ellen Garrett (she/her) founded the Flatbush Workshop for Design in 2022 and is the Director of Projects in the New York office.
As a licensed landscape architect and educator, Ellen’s work centers around methods of codesign, collective action, environmental resiliency, and shared ownership through community land trusts. Her past projects include large adaptive reuse projects such as Section 3 of the High Line, as well as intimate cultural landscapes like the John and Alice Coltrane Home and Nina Simone House.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Ellen is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, a Rust Belt town rich with labor union history, art, and infrastructure- here, she developed an appreciation for the built environment and community organizing.

Margaret Jankowsky

Director [ Brooklyn, NY ]

Margaret Jankowsky (she/her) is the Managing Director at the Flatbush Workshop for Design based in Brooklyn, NY.
At FWD she pursues landscape and urban design projects that include aspects of long-term stewardship and community care, cross-disciplinary collaboration, healthier environments, and infrastructure.
Margaret’s previous work ranges from planting-focused residential gardens in Long Island and Connecticut; to large urban master plans for the Underline in Miami and Seattle’s Central Waterfront; to strategic planning for organizations from a summer arts camp to a Black-owned funeral home. She continues to work with Trahan Architects, where she leads a former plantation reinterpretation project focused on the intersection of people, land, history, and healing.
Margaret grew up in Western Colorado and attended school in Philadelphia, holding a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. She occasionally mistakes far-off clouds for mountain ranges.