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Rebecca Shen a landscape designer, artist, and animal activist based in Brooklyn. She is inspired by design to advance interspecies justice and imagine more anti-speciesist spaces. Through her design work, she has explored topics of ecological restoration, regenerative food systems, animal rights, and local environmental stewardship. Rebecca graduated with a Master in Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2023. There, she completed her design thesis, Sanctuary State: California’s Cowscape in Transition, which envisions the transformation of an 800-acre industrial cattle feedlot into a cow sanctuary in the San Joaquin Valley. Rebecca also graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020.

Outside of practicing at a landscape architecture firm, Rebecca also collaborates with researchers and organizers in animal studies or animal advocacy. For inquiries on project collaboration, please reach out via her email: beccshen@gmail.com

Selected Features

Co-Author (Forthcoming) | Paper in Exploring Human-Animal & Multispecies Relations: Risk Taking in Research Methods

Podcast Series Host, 2026 | The Animal Highlight Animals in Singapore Series

Illustrator, 2026 | Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (MARS) test finds Oscars so AnthropoScenic in contemporary animated films

Podcast Guest (x2) for Review Episodes | The Animal Highlight

Contributor, 2023 | Harvard Animal Law School Blog

Grantee, 2023 | Culture and Animals Foundation, Creativity

Visiting Scholar, 2022 | Culture and Animals Foundation - Tending Sanctuary Interview

Installation Designer and Competition Winner, 2022 | Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens International Garden Festival

Honorable Mention, 2021 | The Warming Competition, "The Green Border Act"