Commencement 2024

Mia Lehrer

Mia Lehrer, FASLA
President, Studio-MLA

Mia Lehrer founded Studio-MLA with a vision to improve quality of life through landscape architecture. With offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the robust and multidisciplinary team works to address urban issues through environmental systems planning and resilience strategies. She has led the design and implementation of ambitious public and private projects including the Hollywood Park Racetrack redevelopment and its new SoFi Stadium, associated public parks, Dallas’s Fair Park Community Park, San Francisco’s Levi’s Plaza Revitalization, L.A. County’s Natural History Museum Gardens, Vista Hermosa Park, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Lehrer also participated in many urban river-related projects including the Rio Tietê in São Paulo, the Los Angeles River Taylor Yard G2 Park, and the Upper Los Angeles River and Tributaries Master Plan.

Lehrer is internationally recognized for progressive landscape design, advocacy for sustainable and people-friendly public places, and catalyzing work for a climate-appropriate future. Educated at Tufts University and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she lectures and teaches around the world. Among her recent accomplishments, Lehrer received the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum’s 2021 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture, the ASLA LaGasse Medal, and the ICON Award from L.A. Design Festival. She served on President Barack Obama’s U.S. Fine Arts Commission and sits on numerous boards including the L.A. Department of Water and Power Commission and the Los Angeles Parks Foundation.