Practice Management (Contracts / Insurance / Finance / Personnel)

Professional Practice Network (PPN) Session

SAT-C06 - What We're Getting Right: Working Toward Gender Parity in Landscape Architecture

1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

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  Kate Douglas, Assoc. ASLA

  Associate
  BrightView Design Group

Speaker(s)

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  Christine Hilt, FASLA, LEED AP

  President and Founder
  CLH Design, P.A.
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  Roberto Rovira, ASLA

  Associate Professor / Principal
  Florida International University / Studio Roberto Rovira
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  Rebecca Leonard, ASLA, FAICP, LEED AP

  Founder and CEO
  Lionheart Places LLC

Gender equity in the workplace is a hot topic these days. But that can mean different things to different people. Learn what firms—small to large—have successfully done to increase gender equity. Get inspired to refine your firm’s approach and share your stories.

Learning Objectives:

• Build a gender equity tool kit for landscape architecture workplaces that applies to small and large firms in urban and rural areas.
• Explore the benefits of diversity in landscape architecture practice.
• Understand the data on gender equity in landscape architecture and the implications of the data on gendered experiences at work.
• Learn how landscape architecture leaders have built firms from small to large that support gender equity.