Building Biodiversity and Stewardship with Our Native Meadows - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Kate Hayes is a Partner and Design Principal at Miridae where she runs the firm’s design work and outreach. Kate’s process-oriented design work draws on her interdisciplinary science background, integrating ecology and a multi-scaled systems approach. She is energized by working with clients and communities to realize a collective design vision. Kate has also been a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design in the Department of Human Ecology at UC Davis and in the Earth Systems Department at Stanford University. Kate holds a MLA from University of Virginia and a BS in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

Katherine Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Knowlton School and cofounder of the design-research studio, Present Practice. Through research, teaching and practice, she implements original methods of fieldwork that facilitate ecological restoration and promote creative engagement with the environment. Katherine received an MLA from the University of Virginia and a BA in painting and printmaking from Yale University. She is a recipient of The Center for Land Use Interpretation Residency, the MacDowell Fellowship in Architecture and the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture.

Ann-Marie is the Horticulture Programs Manager for CNPS. She has spent a decade and a half serving landscapes and watersheds with nonprofits in California and Arizona. She holds a deep passion for plants and landscapes, having served as the Executive Director of ReScape California (formerly Bay-Friendly Landscaping and Gardening Coalition), a nonprofit educating the large-scale landscape industry throughout Northern California on planning, constructing, and maintaining sustainable landscape. Prior to that she was with Prescott Creeks doing watershed planning and riparian restoration in Northern Arizona. Ann-Marie studied Watershed Management and Sustainable Community Development at Prescott College.