Using Your Voice to Influence Landscape Architecture Licensure and Policy - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Recorded On: 10/09/2024

Become a policy influencer! Learn to identify and collaborate with key legislators, empowering yourself to shape landscape architecture policies. Position yourself as a valuable resource with insights into protecting health, safety, welfare, and the environment. This session educates and empowers you to become an effective advocate.

Learning objectives:

Learn effective strategies for advocating for the profession with legislators, government agencies, and the public. Find out why this is critical to protecting public health, safety, and welfare.
Become an influential constituent by learning how to identify and work with key policy makers and legislators in order to achieve the desired policy outcome.
Learn how to become a "resource" to policy makers by growing their knowledge of a landscape architect practitioner's ability to protect HSW and the built and natural environment.
Understand how ASLA empowers you to be an effective advocate for our profession.

Jay Gehler, FASLA, PLA

Senior Landscape Architect

Coleman Company Inc

Jay, a landscape architect with Coleman Company, has over 20 years of advocacy experience at all levels of government and has been instrumental in advancing public recognition and understanding of the profession with policymakers. Jay will highlight the necessity of educating and advocating to policy makers to protect public health, safety, and welfare through licensure of landscape architects. Jay will share tools and resources and use examples of his own experiences in both Wisconsin and Georgia working with state legislators to defend licensure and fight for the right to practice.

Doug Boyer, ASLA, PLA

Associate Principal

EDGE

Doug Boyer, an associate principal at EDGE, has led numerous Ohio Chapter advocacy efforts to defend licensure and improve the understanding and profile of the profession within the State. Whether it be meeting with Ohio’s federal and state lawmakers, policy officials at the Ohio Department of Transportation, or regulators at the Ohio Board of Building Standards, Doug will share how he’s successfully carried the message of landscape architects, as licensed design professionals, in order to grow opportunities for landscape architects to lead projects around the state and the nation.

Janene Jackson

Partner

Holland & Knight

Janene, an attorney and partner with Holland & Knight LLP, works as a lobbyist for the Potomac Chapter of the ASLA. Janene’s wisdom and counsel was crucial to enacting a practice act in the District of Columbia in 2017 and in the Chapter’s recent efforts to eliminate the sales tax on landscape architectural services. Janene will share her insights and guidance on the importance of developing relationships with policy makers at all levels, and on navigating the legislative and regulatory aspects of local government.