Shannon Rafferty graduated with her Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. At Penn, Shannon worked as a Research Assistant for the World Park Project, was a Teaching Assistant in Urban Ecology, worked as intern at !Melk Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, and took a gap year from Penn to work at Snøhetta's Oslo office. Shannon worked for several years in community arts and strategic communications before studying Landscape Architecture and has a BA in Psychology, Art & Art History from St. Mary's College of Maryland.