Kotch is founder & CEO of Porous City Network, a landscape architecture social enterprise working to tackle climate change and increase urban resilience in Thailand and Southeast Asian cities.

Kotch’s passion is solving urban ecological problems through landscape architecture solutions, and she believes public health should become a standard norm in urban development.

In Bangkok, Kotch and her team turned an invaluable commercial property in the heart of the city into Chulalongkorn Centenary Park, a flood-proof, water- retention public green space. Kotch also works as a design consultant for Bangkok 250, a major redevelopment project for the city’s 250th anniversary.

Kotch is an Echoing Green Climate Fellow, TED Fellow, and Asia Foundation Development Fellow. In 2019, Kotch was named one of 15 women leading the fight against climate change and she is in the TIME 100 Next 2019 list of the world most influential people. She received her master’s degree in landscape architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.