Lisa Switkin is a partner at Field Operations, a New York-based landscape architecture and urban design practice, where she leads complex public realm projects. Throughout her career, Lisa has championed design and planning projects that creatively contend with complex issues related to social equity, climate change, and sustainable urbanism. For more than 20 years, Lisa has been closely involved in many multidisciplinary projects including the High Line and Domino Park in New York (2009 and 2018 respectively), Santa Monica’s Tongva Park (2013), and Gansevoort Peninsula in New York’s Hudson River Park (2023), as well as the transformative master plans for Staten Island’s Freshkills Park, The Underline in Miami, Waterfront Seattle, and most recently, Cleveland’s North Coast Master Plan, all currently under construction.

Lisa was formerly president of the Landscape Architecture Foundation and currently serves on the board of directors for the Urban Design Forum. She is a registered landscape architect in New York, and holds a bachelor’s degree in urban planning with a focus on community development planning from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in landscape architecture and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.