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 place-based knowledge can cultivate reciprocal human and more-than-human relationships. As part of this work, she investigates people’s landscape stewardship practices across working landscapes, such as shade-grown coffee farms in Colombia. 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.