Sharon Gamson Danks

Sharon Gamson Danks is an American environmental planner and landscape designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area known for her advocacy of environmentally friendly schoolyards. She has designed schoolyards with blooming gardens, shaded ponds and nature trails. Danks published Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation, a book which serves as a "guide for transforming the traditional school ground’s slab of asphalt into edible gardens", and is considered as an educational resource for school teachers. It received an American Society of Landscape Architects Professional Award for Communications in 2012.