Crystal Thomas has a chair outside the Belvedere-Tiburon Library, an umbrella for shade and nowhere she needs to be. She is a year into a break from a career in tech.

He calls the county a weird dichotomy, a place with a countercultural history and, he says, a lot of Connecticut NIMBYs.

Tiburon landmarks like Town Hall and the Old Rail Trail double as in-game PokéStops, giving Cao a reason to explore the town on his lunch breaks.

Trinity Winchester, Kate Rubel and Cole Norgaard are all smiles walking the shoreline path at Blackie's Pasture, a favorite spot to stay active.

Barbara Yonkow has spent 30 years designing and building gardens for clients across Marin, work she says lets her "accentuate aspects of the land."

The couple, married since 2009, met years earlier when Iwasaki was Steele's hairdresser in San Francisco. They now share a love of Shoreline Park.

Landscape architect Kossen Miller, a senior associate at RHAA, is designing two Tiburon park projects: the former sanitation ponds near McKegney Green and Belveron Mini Park.

Ghai, 32, grew up in Chandigarh, India, where his father played tennis for 30 years. He picked up the sport and has coached in the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates.

Portner grew up partly in Venezuela, speaking Spanish, before her family moved to Tiburon when she was 13. She says Venezuelan culture remains a core part of her identity.

Leila Al-Moosa and classmates carried water jugs four miles to highlight the burden on girls in developing countries.