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Veronica joined the Fairmount Park Conservancy team in August 2025. In her role as Landscape Field Technician, she monitors, maintains, and coordinates care for an array of natural landscapes within the parks including forests, meadows, wetlands and horticultural areas.

Prior to joining the Conservancy, she worked on the Natural Lands team at Philadelphia Parks & Recreation’s Greenland Nursery, cultivating native trees and shrubs to support habitat restoration projects across the park system. Most recently, she graduated from the University of Vermont’s Field Naturalist and Ecological Planning program, a professional master’s degree focused on integrated field sciences, landscape inventory and analysis, and natural history. Her master’s research focused on assessing restoration potential for fire-adapted natural communities on Vermont’s Northern Green Mountain Escarpment.

Formerly an architectural designer, her environmental design work has been published in Powering Places, an outlet of the Land Art Generator Initiative. She is or has also been: a craftsperson, a draftsperson, a bartender, a boutique chicken accessory seamstress, a person who can’t whistle, and a radio DJ.