About ReScape
What is ReScape?
ReScape is a California nonprofit that educates and advocates for a whole-systems regenerative approach to landscaping using nature-based solutions. The organisation addresses climate change, water challenges, and biodiversity loss through landscaping education, workforce development, and policy. Verbatim from /about: "ReScape California initially began as the Bay-Friendly Landscaping & Gardening Coalition in 2009. The Coalition evolved to become ReScape California in 2015, and grew further when EcoLandscape California merged with ReScape in 2017."
ReScape has moved away from "sustainable" practices to "regenerative" ones: "While sustainability and regeneration share common goals of environmental and social well-being, they differ significantly in their approach and scope. Sustainability emphasizes maintaining balance and minimizing harm... In contrast, regeneration is proactive and restorative, aiming to create systems that not only sustain but also improve and replenish the environment, communities, and economies."
Four interconnected programs anchor the work:
- Diverse Workforce Training — "Our nature-based, whole systems 8 Principles approach trains professionals in policy-driven regenerative landscape standards, creating demand through education and partnerships with public agencies, businesses, and communities."
- Climate Equity — "Our approach honors the fact that many communities have been stewarding land sustainably for generations. The only workable climate change solutions call in a new map that weaves together ancient wisdom with contemporary innovation."
- Advocacy & Policy — "Landscapes produce 12% of GHG emissions. Opportunities exist to reduce emissions and increase the potential to sequester carbon."
- Rated Landscapes — third-party certification for regenerative landscapes (with a Qualified Professionals directory)
Where will I work?
ReScape is based at 1008 General Kennedy Ave Ste 210, San Francisco, CA 94129 (in the Presidio). The team operates with role-dependent hybrid/remote flexibility; community workshops, partner events and Rated Landscape reviews may require on-site participation across California. Phone: 415 766 0191.
What is the ReScape team like?
The staff team (5 named on /team) plus an 8-member Board of Directors collectively spans landscape architecture, hydrology, public works, irrigation, water utilities, public health, and California state policy. Staff:
- Milena Fiore — Executive Director (background: business-development consulting + healthcare executive roles + public-health nurse in Colorado, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Navajo Nation)
- Alinya Charron — Executive Assistant & Climate Action Operations (20+ years non-profit program management; former Program Director at East Bay Agency for Children directing 30+ staff across 13 OUSD sites; UC Berkeley)
- Ryne De Ocampo — Training & Community Supervisor (San Francisco State BA, Geography & Human Environmental Studies)
- Angela Ortiz — Data Coordinator (UC Berkeley BA Social Welfare, Public Policy minor)
- Oliver Crawford-Shelmadine — Intern (UC Berkeley Conservation and Resource Studies)
Board of Directors (named on /team):
- Sarah Gronquist — Board President; Landscape Architect, California Sustainable Design (licensed CA 2001; founder SGLA Technical Training; joined ReScape Board 2018)
- Jeff Becerra — Board Secretary; Owner/Operator, Arbolex Landscape (previously at StopWaste and East Bay MUD)
- Mindy Craig — Principal, Blue Point Planning (25+ years policy/planning; past ReScape Board President; founder of RAPID Climate Accelerator)
- Martha Davis — Retired Assistant General Manager for Policy Development, Inland Empire Utilities Agency; former Executive Director Mono Lake Committee (1984-1996); honorary PhD Kennedy College Oakland; Stanford + Yale School of Forestry
- Jackie Gachina — Owner & President, Gachina Landscape Management (WBE + WRMSDC certified; San Francisco Business Times top-25 woman/minority-owned 4 consecutive years; JobTrain board)
- Oscar Lucario — Public Works Supervisor, City of Sausalito (25+ years sustainable/organic in Marin/Sonoma; former ReScape Board President; ReScape Instructor and Qualified Professional; integrates Indigenous land stewardship from Mexico)
- Brian Rowley — Office Chief, Caltrans Office of Water Quality (Division of Environmental Planning & Engineering; 12+ years green infrastructure in SF Bay Area)
- Eric Santos — VP of Professional Services, HydroPoint; founder Epic Irrigation Services; Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Agricultural Engineering; 30+ years; 13+ industry certifications; 2025 Green Industry Hall of Fame inductee
Work-Life Balance
ReScape supports flexibility for its small staff team to balance on-site community work with hybrid arrangements. Specific schedule details for each role are communicated through the Gusto careers portal during the hiring process.
Perks and Benefits
ReScape is a mission-driven California nonprofit. Specific compensation and benefits are detailed in each role posting via the Gusto careers portal — currently there are no open positions. Applicants can monitor jobs.gusto.com/boards/rescape for new postings. The "Join our team!" call from /team verbatim: "ReScape values highly a diverse team — all aligned in positive action in a culture of collaboration — to address the climate emergency, provide diverse workforce training and forward whole systems policy that assures a sustainable planet. If you want to be part of tackling the most pressing environmental land use issues we face today, join us."