Jolean is a Landscape Designer who works on commercial projects at Colliers Engineering and Design, and residential projects in her spare time. Planting with natives, working with nonprofits, and designing inclusive spaces captures the essence of her post grad work. After finishing her masters in 2022 at Rutgers University, her new goal became working towards becoming a licensed landscape architect.

Kenneth R. Hurst, PhD, MLA, RLA, ASLA, CLARB, CPSI, is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. He applies behavior mapping research to evaluate evidence-based support for the contribution individual park elements, and accessible design make toward levels of use and physical activity in urban park environments. 

Russ Faulk is the Chief Designer and Head of Product for Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet, the leading manufacturer of luxury outdoor kitchen appliances and cabinetry. He has over 20 years of experience in product design and has designed the brand’s most recognized products including the Kalamazoo Gaucho Grill, Artisan Fire Pizza Oven and the new Shokunin Kamado Grill.

Russ is also the brand’s resident grillmaster and an accomplished cookbook author. His most recent cookbook, Food + Fire was published in 2019 and features more than 170 of his tried and true recipes dedicated to the power, passion, and flavor of live fire cooking.

Outside the kitchen, Russ is an accomplished sports kite designer - who has been honored for his contributions in the aerodynamics of kites by the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian - an international sports kite flying competitor and a leader of the sport's world federation. He is a graduate of the Fine Arts College of Washington University in St. Louis.

Ujijji Davis is a landscape architect who focuses on landscape and urban design, master planning and strategic implementation. Her background in urban planning is driven by authentic community engagement and research as foundational to equitable design. Her research topics include anti-displacement, vernacular landscapes, and the intersection of between culture and place in cities. In 2019, she won the ASLA Bradford Williams Medal for her research on the erasure on Black American urban landscapes and the responsibilities of landscape architecture for reconciliation through design. She was previously an Associate at SmithGroup in the Detroit Urban Design Studio. She’s originally from Brooklyn.

A career-long advocate for the profession, Jeanne knows it has a very compelling narrative to celebrate and share. She has been proactive in numerous organizations and instrumental in creating new platforms, whenever needed, to give voice to landscape architecture.

Jeanne currently co-chairs the ASLA Gender Equity Task Force, and serves on the Websites Task Force (leading the redevelopment of the ASLA.org and LAM.org) and FrameWorks Task Force (working in conjunction with the President’s Council on the branding and communications of landscape architecture to the public). As a member of the ASLA Executive Committee, Jeanne recently completed her 3-year term as ASLA Vice President of Communications. Prior to that, she served two consecutive 3-year terms on the ASLA Board of Trustees for the Boston Chapter which represents Massachusetts and Maine. She has supported ASLA through her national committee work including Public Awareness, PR and Communications, Leadership Development, and LAM Editorial Advisory Committees.

Participation in the peer organization, AIA, offers her multiple venues through which to strategically promote the mission of landscape architecture and advocate for equity to the design and construction industry at large. Most recently, Jeanne served on the Foundation’s Institutional Advancement Committee, as well as the Equity Diversity Inclusion + Harassment Task Force. She was co-chair of the Women in Design Committee and co-chair of the Women Principals Group for over ten years, where she was a founding member of the AIA Women’s Leadership Summit, now an annual AIA national event.

Jeanne studied urban and regional planning and landscape architecture, and is a graduate of the University of Guelph. For over two decades she has been in private practice in Boston, and has received local, national, and international recognition for her leadership and work.

David is a Human Resources Program Manager at PuzzleHR living in the Chicagoland area. He holds a master’s degree in Critical Race and Ethnicity studies from the University of California, San Diego and is committed to using this knowledge to make workplaces more inclusive spaces. On his downtime, David enjoys rock-climbing and listening to podcasts.  

Sami Sikanas is a landscape architectural designer based in New York City. She currently works at MARVEL, where she designs and implements urban projects of all scales. Born and raised in rural western Michigan, Sami was imbued with an appreciation for nature. This brought her to study at the University of Michigan, where she gained her undergraduate degree in Environmental and Urban Studies. She continued her studies at UM’s School of Natural Resources for her master’s in landscape architecture. Sami has spoken at the national ASLA conference in 2019, as well as panels and events at AIA-NY, ASLA-NY, and Build Out Alliance among others.

Anna has dedicated her career to weaving nature, culture and history into urban landscapes. At every scale, she is committed to engaging communities and strives to create designs that reflect the communities’ needs. Anna leads complex built projects and master plans across the world. Her most notable projects include Bonnet Springs Park in Lakeland, FL, which is transforming an abandoned railyard into Florida’s own Central Park; the implementation of University Lakes in Baton Rouge, LA, an ambitious project to set the six lake system on a more ecologically sustainable and recreationally rich future; and Hellinkon Metropolitan Park in Athens, Greece.

Shannon Nichol is a founding principal of GGN. Her designs are widely recognized for being deeply embedded in their neighborhoods and natural contexts. Shannon’s work incorporates complex functions into simple frameworks and refined landforms.
GGN is the recipient of the 2017 ASLA National Landscape Architecture Firm Award and in 2011, Shannon and her partners received the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture. Her work has received multiple Design Excellence and Honor Awards from ASLA and AIA. Shannon lectures internationally, frequently juries for design awards, and serves on advisory committees for universities and non-profits.

Nate’s interest in landscape design as a form of storytelling drew him to Los Angeles seven years ago after two decades of practice in Seattle and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard. Today, Nate helps lead a team of over 60 landscape architects working across diverse typologies and regions. He is passionate about civic and cultural spaces as well as restorative environments for health and hospitality. Current work includes major commissions in Tulsa, Denver, Phoenix, and Miami. Nate’s north star is an immersive beauty founded on formal curiosity, local materials, and co-creation.

Jennifer is co-founder & principal of Studio Balcones, a landscape and urban design firm based in Austin, Texas. Her commitment to protecting and supporting healthy ecological systems sits at the center of her work. As a self-proclaimed “plant nerd,” Jennifer oversees all office planting design, and loves to insert whimsy and play into her projects. She has an MLA from The University of Pennsylvania and a BS from Georgia Tech. Jennifer is a 4th generation Texan with deep affection for Texas landscapes., is a mother of two, and enjoys exploring the natural world with her family.

John Hart Asher has over 13 years’ experience designing and building functional ecosystems within urban conditions. He has carried out research and development of native turf grass, green roof media technology, provided design consulting for urban prairies and riparian restoration, and has designed numerous native prairie green roofs all over the state of Texas. His projects have one awards from the American Institute of Architects, the International RiverFoundation, Architizer, the National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies, and Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. John Hart also serves as host for the award-winning PBS show, Central Texas Gardener.

Emily King is the City of Austin's Urban Forester, an ISA Certified Arborist Municipal Specialist, and holds a degree in Forest Management from Texas A&M University. In her capacity as Austin's Urban Forester, Emily leads city-wide collaboration efforts to implement Austin’s Urban Forest Plan. She grounds her team's work with a focus on equitable access to the benefits that our community forest provides, and on climate adaptation to ensure the health of our future forest.

Ellen Garrett is a registered landscape architect based in Brooklyn, New York. She recently launched The Flatbush Workshop for Design (FWD) to rethink the functionality and methodology of the design industry. In 2022, FWD will be establishing a worker-owned design cooperative, building solidarity through financial equity and creative agency. FWD investigates the current state of the design field and questions how it can better provide for workers, future designers, and the communities they serve. She aims to build trust, build wealth, and build visions for communities as equal design partners.

Katie Lyon is the Head of Client Services for Purpose, an organization that helps make shared ownership structures more accessible and replicable in the U.S. economy. She has over 15 years of experience in economic and community development. Prior to joining Purpose, Katie worked to build career pathways for City University of New York students, provided economic development consulting with BJH Advisors, and managed a business improvement district. Katie earned a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from New York University. Katie is a member of the Associate Board of the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services.

Ashton Hamm, founder of UXO Architects is a licensed architect with experience in a range of project types - from private residential to large scale cultivation facilities to community design. Ashton is committed to expanding the role of cooperatives in the architecture profession, and is currently writing a book on the subject.

Resilience Principal at SCAPE, Pippa is a leading national expert on resilience planning and design. She works with multi-disciplinary teams to develop and implement landscape strategies and next-century infrastructure that integrate environmental, economic and social benefits. She leads both planning and built work teams within the firm, including SCAPE's Living Breakwaters project–approximately 2,400 linear feet of near-shore "breakwaters" designed to reduce risk and provide habitat for local marine life currently in construction off the shore of Staten Island. Her projects integrate systems thinking; natural and nature-based systems; engineering methods; and knowledge of implementation pathways to realize effective resilient design.

Mr. Rothstein’s career has focused on ecosystem restoration and water resources planning within urban centers. He currently leads multiple teams investigating and designing sustainable water resource projects and habitat restorations across the United States and its territories include New York City, Puerto Rico, Florida, Texas, and throughout the Northeast. His international work includes water resource and ecosystem planning in Grenada, Nepal, Sao Paulo, Brazil, rural Rwanda, and the Aegean coast of Turkey.

As the Executive Director of Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Andrea works to empower a community of environmental stewards and advocates in the rapidly changing Gowanus Watershed. As an instructor at City College of New York, she engages landscape architecture students with the complex ecological, economic and cultural forces at play in New York’s dynamic urban ecology. Her previous work as a landscape designer and gardener provides a pragmatic understanding of how landscapes are designed, built and maintained. She received a BA from the University of Chicago, studied Landscape Horticulture at Merritt College, and received a MLA from the University of Virginia.

David is a Principal at TERREMOTO, a formally and conceptually adventurous office for Landscape Architecture with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. TERREMOTO creates well built, site-specific landscapes that respond to client needs while simultaneously challenging historical + contemporary landscape construction methods, materials, and formal conventions. Our design approach is post-internet, critically-regionalist, and respectfully inflammatory.

Jenny Jones is a Partner at Terremoto, a landscape design firm based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Terremoto approaches landscape and garden-making with an experimental, hands-on approach, with projects spanning residential, institutional, commercial, private and public. Terremoto has also engaged with community work through Test Plot, an ongoing collaborative experiment in shared land stewardship. Through Test Plot, as well as Terremoto’s Land and Labor internal working group, we seek to strengthen the ethics of Land Care in the landscape industry and in our culture more broadly.

Alain Peauroi is a Co-Founder at Terremoto and co-leads the San Francisco office, with a strong background in the construction process. Before starting Terremoto Alain was responsible for the construction of many large scale and complex projects including San Diego Waterfront Park, Golden Gate Bridge Plaza and Lands End in Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Since starting Terremoto he has worked such projects as Scribe Winery, EQ Denver Plaza and many residental projects of various scales.

Alain has a bachelors degree in Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly SLO and a masters degree in Industrial Design from Design Academy, Eindhoven NL.

Story Wiggins is landscape architect with a background in historic preservation and land stewardship. Story received a Masters in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley and a BA in Historic Preservation and French from the College of Charleston. During her time at UC Berkeley, she worked for the National Park Service in their Cultural Landscape Program.
Story joined Terremoto’s San Francisco office in 2016. Story is co-lead of the studio’s ‘Land and Labor’ internal working group, which advocates for the building and gardening trades and tradespeople that make our projects possible.

Marieke Lacasse is a Landscape Architect and Principal at GGLO, a multidisciplinary firm that revels in designing projects that reflect the unique character and interests of community, site, and user experience culture. The resulting spaces garner awards for their playfulness, highly sustainable features, promotion of health and active living, and long-term site stewardship. She is an ardent supporter of environmental and sustainability causes, serves as trustee for the Washington Chapter of ASLA, volunteers for ULI Northwest and homeless housing non-profits. She holds a Baccalaureate in Landscape Architecture from the University of Montreal, Canada, and is licensed in Washington and California.

Pamela is a Principal at CMG Landscape Architecture and Founder of Climate Positive Design. Conrad specializes on climate mitigation and resilient design in the public realm, focusing on San Francisco's waterfront. Her work is informed by a background in Plant Science and a passion for the environment rooted in growing up on a farm. She is an ASLA Climate Action Committee member, 2018-2019 LAF Fellow for Innovation and Leadership and recipient of the 2019 NCRE Women of Influence Award. She has published numerous works and presented internationally for developing the landscape carbon calculator Pathfinder app and Climate Positive Design Challenge.

Jessie Templeton is an Architect and Researcher who focuses on carbon and equity in the built environment. She leads Embodied Carbon Research and Analysis efforts at GGLO Design where she facilitates Carbon accounting for all the firm’s projects on the road to a Climate Positive project portfolio by 2030. Jessie also co-leads the Design Equity Initiative, an effort to embed an equity lens in the project process, culminating in material choices, spaces and projects that strive for a more equitable built environment.
Jessie’s project experience includes LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge Multi-Family, Affordable, and Mixed-Use urban projects.