
2025 LARE Prep Week: Dear LAREy AMA (June)
Recorded On: 06/13/2025
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Have a burning question about an L.A.R.E. sub-domain topic? Ask the LARE Prep Committee anything! Experienced PLA’s will answer your questions and share even more tips from their experience.
Exam candidates who are struggling on specific exams and their respective sub-domains are encouraged to attend.

Madeline Steigerwald, ASLA, PLA
Landscape Architect, Jr. Project Manager
Dix Hite + Partners
Madeline is a former Akronite living in Orlando, Florida. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture degree with a French minor from The Ohio State University in 2010. After the recession, she found her way back to landscape architecture with a position at Nimrod Long & Associates in Birmingham, Alabama. She gained experience in both public and private work then obtained licensure in June 2017. Later that year, Madeline joined Dix.Hite + Partners where her current project focus includes campus, roadway and streetscape design, multi-family developments, residential design, community hardscape and landscape renovations, and exterior building color studies.

Donnie Longenecker, PLA
University of Georgia College of Environment and Design
Donnie Longenecker is an entrepreneur and educator. His firm, DTC, provides a planning, program and project management services for a wide variety of clients and projects. Donnie also serves as a Lecturer and Continuing Education Coordinator for the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design.