Planning

60-Minute Education Session

Emerging Professionals

SAT-B05 - Our Secret Superpower: Landscape Architects Shaping Policy to Shape the World

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

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  Karen Cesare, ASLA

  President
  Novak Environmental, Inc.

Speaker(s)

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  Stephanie Landregan, FASLA, LEED AP

  Board Member
  California State Mining and Geology Board
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  Diane Jones Allen, ASLA

  Program Director, Associate Professor
  University of Texas, Arlington

Environmental stewardship is landscape architecture’s core value, but lacking political clout, are we truly effective? Meet three powerful women in politics tackling social equity, drought policy, and mining impacts. Hear how political action is an essential tool for landscape architects to use in improving health, safety, and welfare.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn why getting involved in policy making decisions at their formative stage is critical to advance landscape architecture’s goals of promoting health, safety, and welfare.
• Understand the process of starting a grassroots movement, getting appointed to a powerful state board, and campaigning for public office.
• Gain insight into why meaningful design related to climate change and environmental justice is intrinsically tied to policy decisions.
• Gain courage to go outside the landscape architecture box by working for causes that may be at odds with the client/consultant relationship.