Her electric rise to fame has been driven by recent work for the expansive parks and plazas surrounding SoFi Stadium, widely celebrated as creating a new public-serving paradigm for stadium design. But Lehrer’s talent for resurfacing nature and adding community amenities began much earlier, with decades of work currently re-envisioning the Los Angeles River, then landscapes for Vista Hermosa Natural Park, the Natural History Museum, Dodger Stadium, Banc of California Stadium, the Annenberg Community Beach House, and Beverly Gardens Park, and much more. Recently, she won the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award for landscape architecture, and she serves on the first all-woman Board of Commissioners for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Here, she speaks about her early reverence for environmentalism, advocacy as a foundation of her practice, and the necessity and value of women supporting other women.