A native of New England, Larissa spent her childhood visiting South Florida, where her grandmother instilled in her a deep appreciation for tropical ecologies and the avian visitors to her garden.
Larissa joins the Raymond Jungles team after fifteen years working in media and communications for various design disciplines in New York City, including fashion, furniture, interior design, and architecture. With an educational background in fine art and creative writing, Larissa discovered Landscape Architecture to be the perfect amalgamation of her interests: design, environment, sculpture, and the desire to shape spaces rooted in developing a kindred existence between humans, animals, and plants.
While in design school, Larissa enjoyed working across a range of scales, from highly conceptual solutions to the global water crisis, to community-driven remediations of post-industrial riparian corridors across Philadelphia, to designing custom hardware details for outdoor benches installed at a memorial park in Northern Virginia. She looks forward to bringing these multi-scalar interests towards Raymond Jungles projects in the future.
In her free time, Larissa enjoys making ceramics and textiles, as well as anything related to the water, including swimming, surfing, kayaking, and paddle-boarding, always with her pug, Bao Bao, by her side.
Education
City College of New York, Johns Hopkins University - Bachelor of Art
