Miranda Redinger was born in Bluegrass, Virginia and attended the University of Virginia School of Architecture when William McDonough was the dean. His concepts of “waste equals food” and “cradle-to-cradle” design have inspired her work ever since. She served as an Americorps volunteer in Ashland, OR working for a community land trust before becoming the Planning and Zoning Administrator for a rural County in the mountains of Virginia. She moved to Washington in 2007 and worked as a land use planner for the City of Shoreline, where she led subarea planning for two light rail stations that opened in 2024. In 2019 she started working for Sound Transit, where she is a High Capacity Transit Development Manager on the Everett Link Extension, which is scheduled to add 16 miles of track and seven new stations to the network.