Sarah Bolivar, PLA, is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Focusing on the Pan-American region, from Appalachia to the Andes, her research explores how design systems can transform human and more-than-human relationships in face of biodiversity threats and anthropogenic climate impacts. As part of this work, she investigates how changes in land use, especially in agricultural landscapes, bear upon cultural-ecological relationships. In particular, Sarah examines how agricultural lands throughout the Americas impact neotropical migrating birds, which breed in Northern America and winter across Latin America. These small creatures require structurally diverse vegetation that is often at odds with human aesthetic norms. Through multidisciplinary partnerships and fieldwork, her scholarship advocates for multispecies empathy, relationality, and reciprocity – approaches that honor plural ways of knowing and inhabiting landscapes. Harnessing the power of storytelling (visual, written, and oral), her work invites speculation to build more just worlds.