Angela Tana grew up in Connecticut and knew by the age of 12 that she wanted to be an architect. In the mid-1990s, she moved west with just a couple of suitcases and her sketchbook to study architecture at Arizona State University. Captivated by the desert’s striking beauty, she chose to stay and has since devoted her career to enhancing the design process, one project at a time. Angela thrives on collaboration and values being on project sites, where she can see ideas through from concept to completion. At home in Tempe, she enjoys life with her husband, a landscape architect, and their two children—where design and creativity are a shared passion.