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U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, California
Senator Barbara Boxer has been a forceful advocate in the areas of transportation, environment, natural resources and clean water, all issues that are important to ASLA and landscape architects across the country. As the ranking member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and its former chair, Senator Boxer has worked to ensure that biking, walking and transit use are included in surface transportation law. She also achieved bipartisan agreements to continue active transportation programs and policies like the Transportation Alternatives Program, the Safe Routes to School and Recreational Trails Program.
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Susan Chin, Design Trust for Public Space
Susan Chin, the executive director of the Design Trust for Public Space, has been a tireless advocate for innovative and collaborative work in the public realm. Since joining the organization in 2011, she has shepherded projects that are models for urban design and landscape architecture. As the former assistant commissioner for capital projects for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Chin had also commissioned numerous innovative works of architecture and public art. In this role, she helped shape the city's urban landscape for years to come.
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Lorraine Davis, University of Oregon
For the last 25 years, Lorraine Davis, special assistant to the president and provost of the University of Oregon, has been a remarkable participant in the accreditation process for landscape architecture programs. She has served as an academic administrator for the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board's Roster of Visiting Evaluators (ROVE), a pool of landscape architecture educators, landscape architect practitioners, and non-landscape architect academic administrators that visit schools to evaluate their landscape architectural programs. Davis distinguished herself during these visits with her dedication, preparation and knowledge and appreciation of the landscape architecture profession.
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Pat Faust, Landscape Structures Inc.
As president of Landscape Structures Inc., Pat Faust has been a tireless supporter of the landscape architecture profession and ASLA. The company's generous support is a key component of the success of ASLA's Annual Meeting and EXPO each year. Faust's focus on inclusive play brings much-needed improvements to the area of accessibility and enrichment in playground environments. His focus on nature-inspired play has helped propel play structures beyond traditional "post and platform-style" play experiences to something that can help bring children back to nature.
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Nina-Marie E. Lister, Affiliate ASLA, Ryerson University
Nina-Marie Lister is an associate professor of urban and regional planning at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her 20-year career links ecology, planning and landscape architecture through collaborative, creative scholarly research. From 2009 to 2014, she was a visiting associate professor of landscape architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is also a consultant, providing expertise in ecology, large-scale landscape processes and resilience strategies in projects that range from urban, post-industrial parks to degraded waterfront and riverfront sites around the world.
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Barbara McCann, U.S. Department of Transportation
Barbara McCann serves as the director of the Office of Safety, Energy, and Environment at the U.S. Department of Transportation. She has dedicated her career to issues that concern landscape architects: prioritizing transportation safety, improving public health and creating great places for people. McCann previously served as the founding executive director of the National Complete Streets Coalition, where she coined the term 'Complete Streets,' organized the broad national coalition and presided over its growth as policy adoption accelerated across the country.
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Charles McKinney, Affiliate ASLA, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
As the principal urban designer for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Charles McKinney, Affiliate ASLA, leads the master planning process for flagship parks. Under his direction, NYC Parks is exploring responses to the design imperatives of the 21st century, web-based planning tools and communication, and the role of planning in stimulating community-based leadership. McKinney completes this work in a thorough and intentional way, engaging the community and design consultants, including many landscape architects, through a detailed process.
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Walter Metcalfe, Bryan Cave LLP
Attorney Walter Metcalfe, senior counsel at Bryan Cave LLP, has been instrumental in St. Louis civic affairs. He became a catalyst that led to the creation of the CityArchRiver 2015 Foundation, which sponsored an international design competition in 2010 that selected a team lead by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, to revitalize the Arch grounds. The resulting $367 million dollar project, one of the largest urban and landscape architecture projects in the country, will transform the Gateway Arch and the St. Louis region.
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C. Ford Peatross, Library of Congress
C. Ford Peatross is the founding director of the Center for Architecture, Design and Engineering at the Library of Congress. He was instrumental in the implementation of the Historic American Landscape Survey, the cooperative agreement between ASLA, the National Park Service and the Library of Congress. His enthusiasm and active support of this agreement ensures the documentation, preservation and public availability of vital information pertaining to U.S. historic landscapes.
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Warrie Price, The Battery Conservancy
For more than two decades, Warrie Price has been a powerful force in reacquainting downtown Manhattan with its open space, history and legacy of natural abundance. Through the Battery Conservancy, which she founded in 1994, Price has overseen the redesign and reconstruction of Battery Park, New York City's birthplace and downtown Manhattan's largest public park. What was once a barren hardscape has become a variegated urban oasis with sustainable year-round gardens, an urban farm, moments of levity and play, and honored tributes to the past.
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Susan Rademacher, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
Susan Rademacher is the parks curator for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, where she has been responsible for landscape planning, design and preservation since 2007. Founded in 1996, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy has $76 million to provide stewardship over more than 1,700 acres and 14 capital projects. As parks curator, Rademacher reveals, preserves and promotes the cultural significance of Pittsburgh's parks by directing planning and design, conducting research and communicating the value of the designed landscape.
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Charles Waldheim , Harvard University
