Celebrating 5 years!
This summer marks the 5-year anniversary of Sofia Zander founding Zander Design!
Back in June 2020, Sofia—our bold trail-boss leader—set out to create a planning and design firm grounded in thoughtful, inclusive public access design process that centered in listening to the public, the trail/open space agencies, and the many partners and stakeholders involved in every project. And we're so grateful that she did! She could not have built this company without the support and mentorship of Randy Anderson at TrailPeople, who she worked with for 5 years before setting out on her own path.
As of January 2024, Zander Design has added a "Westbrook" to the name and grown to a team of five, plus two awesome 2025 interns!
Exciting news to share:
Over the past five years we have had the great opportunity to work on trail and public access projects throughout the Bay Area and beyond, including the Bay Trail Design Guidelines—which were recently published! This work was done in collaboration with MTC, Toole Design Group, H.T. Harvey, Andrea Gaffney, Ellen V. Baker, and others.
Sofia led our firm's efforts on this exciting woman-led team publication.
Sofia's appreciation photos
Thanks for your continued support!
ZWD team