Jennifer Chau Tran is an urban designer and landscape researcher who received their Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto. They are currently pursuing their PhD at UCL in Design Futures.

They joined MASS Design Group in Boston in 2022 as a landscape designer, where they worked on projects which addressed memorialization, public memory, and regenerative agriculture. Jennifer seeks to utilize landscape design tools to improve the health of communities and urban ecologies.

They have worked as a landscape designer at SvN in Toronto, Canada and at SCAPE Studio in New Orleans, LA where they gained experience in projects centering coastal resilience and green infrastructure in urban developments. 

Jennifer’s research interests are focused on environmental justice and how landscape architecture can be used as a tool for social and political empowerment in historically marginalized communities.