Designing the Green New Deal Initiative: Demystifying Design and Policy - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Barbara Deutsch, FASLA is CEO of the Landscape Architecture Foundation in Washington, DC. Her diverse background in both the private and not-for-profit sector and prior experience re-greening cities from Hong Kong to Washington, DC, has been instrumental to help LAF increase the influence and impact of landscape architects to support the preservation, improvement, and enhancement of the environment. Barbara earned a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Washington, and was awarded a Loeb Fellowship by the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Kate Orff, FASLA is the founder of SCAPE and a Professor at Columbia University GSAPP, where she directs the Urban Design Program and has a joint appointment with the Climate School. She was named to the 2023 TIME100, TIME Magazine's list of the world's most influential people. Kate graduated with a Bachelor’s in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia with Distinction and earned a Master’s in Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University.

Billy Fleming is the Wilks Family Director of the McHarg Center, a senior fellow with Data for Progress, and co-director of the "climate + community project." Billy's work on the built environment impacts of climate change resulted most prominently in the publication of low-carbon public housing policy briefs tied to the “Green New Deal for Public Housing Act” introduced in 2019. He is co-editor of the book A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation (Island Press, 2021), co-editor and co-curator of the book and exhibit Design With Nature Now (Lincoln, 2019), and lead author of "An Atlas for the Green New Deal.”

Roxanne Blackwell, Hon. ASLA Director of Federal Government Affairs, The American Society of Landscape Architects Roxanne joined ASLA in 2007, where she directs and implements all federal government affairs programs and is the lead advocate for the Society before the U.S. Congress and the federal agencies. She has extensive experience in transportation and infrastructure issues, including federal transit, bicycle and pedestrian policies. Roxanne received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Howard University and her Juris Doctor from the Howard University School of Law. She is admitted to the Maryland Bar.