MLA, Morgan State University

BA, Art History, University of Maryland

Abigail Leonard is a visiting instructor in the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture, teaching courses in planting design. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Morgan State University and Bachelor of Arts in Art History focusing on the History of Western Landscapes from the University of Maryland. Abigail is the lead planting designer for Phoenix Habitats, a design-build habitat restoration and native planting firm in Portland, Oregon. With over ten years of combined experience in many sides of the landscape industry – nursery growers, fine garden management, and landscape design – she has crafted craft sustainable and beautiful planting compositions for projects on all scales in the Pacific Northwest and Mid Atlantic. Through her work with Phoenix Habitats and as a member of the Pacific Design Collective, Abigail seeks to elevate dialogues around beautiful planting and habitat restoration in contemporary landscape design.