Maggie Kraus

( they/them )
Communications Director

Maggie Kraus was born on the sixth day of Sukkot and has been in love with the fall ever since. They are trained as a landscape architect and spent many years working in the realm of affordable housing and urban / rural planning. Over the last ten years, they have managed multimedia campaigns and digital publications for a wide range of nonprofits. Much of this work has focused on community-driven messaging around cultural landscapes and the arts. Maggie is a designer at heart and enjoys thoughtfully constructed objects, places, and stories. Maggie is a Jew by choice and spent the better part of a decade traveling the country as a touring folk musician. It’s a tough choice, but their favorite deciduous conifer is the Dawn Redwood.

Blog posts by Maggie Kraus

Still Being Shaped

Content warning: This piece explores death and the specific loss of life associated with the HIV/AIDS crisis. I don’t know…

Finding Home in a New Here

“To settle in the landscape means to stop our wandering and say: here!” -Christian Norberg-Schulz, The concept of dwelling (1985)…

You’re Here. Who’s With You?

This time of year always arrives with equal amounts of stress and delight, but ever since I started working at…

Bending Time Until It Breaks

Approximately seven lifetimes ago, I was a traveling musician in a gay folk band with my friend Hannah. Interestingly enough,…

When Trying is More Than Enough

A very hot take: I love when the summer ends. Don’t get me wrong, this folkloric season brings with it…

Long Live the Fairies

The artwork displayed in the image above was created by Molly Costello (left) and Adam Benedict (right). Last week, I…