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This year’s symposium highlights the benefits of effective collaboration between landscape architects and other disciplines. Join experts from over 15 different disciplines to discuss topics that affect our Northern California region, including climate policy and design implementation, urban infrastructure and neighborhood transformation, engagement with underrepresented communities, and more, in our chapter’s first symposium!
Registration includes education sessions throughout the day and one complimentary field session at Black Panther Party Museum, The Gardens at Lake Merritt, or Oakland Unified School District The Center. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
![Susannah Drake](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Susannah-Drake.jpg)
Susannah C. Drake
Landscape Architect and Architect, Principal at Sasaki
Susannah is a Principal at Sasaki and founder of DLANDstudio and is one of only four people in the USA who is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. She lectures globally about resilient urban design, taught at top schools across the US including Harvard, IIT, and Syracuse among others. She is currently a professor at Cooper Union.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
8:30am-9:00am | Reception and Refreshments
9:00am-10:15am | Education Session 1
- Affordable Housing as Driver for Equitable Landscapes (1.25 PDH LA CES/HSW)
- Reimagining Our Streets: Slow Street Initiatives in San Francisco
- Brainstorm Session: Neurodiversity and Inclusion Workshop Part 2
10:30am-11:45am | Education Session 2
- Art Masterplanning, Creative Placemaking and Public Art (1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW)
- Indigeneity and Collaborations (1.25 PDH LA CES/HSW)
- Brainstorm Session: Landscape X Landscape Collaboration
12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch Break/Keynote Session by Susannah C. Drake
1:15pm-2:45pm | Field Session
- Black Panther Party Museum – Guided Tour
- The Gardens at Lake Merritt – A Public-private Collaboration
- OUSD The Center – Seeding Urban Resilience through Collaborative Design (1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW)
3:00pm-4:15pm | Education Session 3
- A Path to Climate Action: Sustainability Performance + Funding (1.25 PDH LA CES/HSW)
- Unlocking Urban Street Transformation: Overcoming Challenges Associated with Changing Urban Infrastructure (1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW)
- Garden Wonderland & Black Sanctuary Gardens (1.25 PDH LA CES/HSW)
PRESENTERS
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Mariana Ricker, Associate, SWA Group, Session Moderator
Presenting: “A Path to Climate Action: Sustainability Performance + Funding”
![Kristen DiStefano](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Kristen-DiStefano-e1721157571303-300x300.jpg)
Kristen DiStefano, Director, Atelier Ten
Presenting: “A Path to Climate Action: Sustainability Performance + Funding”
![Cecilia Latapi](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Cecilia-Latapi-300x300.jpg)
Cecilia Latapi, Manager of Government Relations, Momentum
Presenting: “A Path to Climate Action: Sustainability Performance + Funding”
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Jonathan Cordero PhD, Association of Ramaytush Ohlone
Presenting: “Indigeneity and Collaborations”
![Serena Lousich](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Serena-Lousich-e1721159786721-300x300.jpg)
Serena Lousich, Urban Designer at Perkins&Will, Session Moderator
Presenting: “Indigeneity and Collaborations”
![Sam Moss](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Sam-Moss-1-e1721157458569-300x300.jpg)
Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing Development Corportion
Presenting: “Designing for Affordable Housing and Equitable Landscapes”
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Orrin Goldsby, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, Associate, David Baker Architects
Presenting: “Designing for Affordable Housing and Equitable Landscapes”
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Wendy Mok, PLA, ASLA, Director, GLS Landscape | Architecture, Session Moderator
Presenting: “Designing for Affordable Housing and Equitable Landscapes”
![Sarah Kuehl](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Sarah-Kuehl-300x300.jpg)
Sarah Kuehl, EinwillerKuehl Landscape Architecture, Session Moderator
Presenting: “Garden Wonderland & Black Sanctuary Gardens”
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Leslie Bennett, Pine House Edible Gardens, Session Presenter
Presenting: “Garden Wonderland & Black Sanctuary Gardens”
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David Fletcher, PLA, ASLA, Founding Principal, Fletcher Studio, Session Moderator
Presenting: “Art Masterplanning, Creative Placemaking and Public Art”
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Nataly Gattegno, Artist, Founding & Managing Partner of FUTUREFORMS
Presenting: “Art Masterplanning, Creative Placemaking and Public Art”
![Dorka Keehn](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dorka-Keehn.jpg)
Dorka Keehn, Principal, Keehn On Art
Presenting: “Art Masterplanning, Creative Placemaking and Public Art”
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Chris Kent, ASLA, LEED AP, Principal at PGAdesign, Session Moderator
Presenting: “Unlocking Urban Street Transformation: Overcoming Challenges Associated with Changing Urban Infrastructure”
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Laurence Lewis, Transportation Engineer for Kittleson & Associates
Presenting: “Unlocking Urban Street Transformation: Overcoming Challenges Associated with Changing Urban Infrastructure”
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Mark Wessels, ASLA, Arborist/ Landscape Architect
Presenting: “Unlocking Urban Street Transformation: Overcoming Challenges Associated with Changing Urban Infrastructure”
![Elijah Enis](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Elijah-Enis-e1721869824360-300x300.jpg)
Elijah Enis | Analyst, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)
Presenting: “Reimagining Our Streets: Slow Street Initiatives in San Francisco”
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Thea Yang, ASLA, Assistant Project Manager, San Francisco Parks Alliance, Session Moderator
Presenting: “Reimagining Our Streets: Slow Street Initiatives in San Francisco”
![justin](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/justin.jpg)
Justin Richardson, PLA, ASLA, LEED GA, GLS Landscape | Architecture
Presenting: “The Gardens at Lake Merritt – A Public-private Collaboration”
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John Tsutakawa, Rock Garden planner and organizer
Presenting: “The Gardens at Lake Merritt – A Public-private Collaboration”
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Jenifer Azulay,
Friends of the Gardens at Lake Merritt
Jenifer Azulay,
Friends of the Gardens at Lake MerrittPresenting: “The Gardens at Lake Merritt – A Public-private Collaboration”
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Jennifer Ivanovich, Studio Director, BASE Landscape Architecture, Session Moderator
Presenting: “OUSD The Center: Seeding Urban Resilience through Collaborative Design”
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Martha Clifford, Associate Project Manager, BASE Landscape Architecture
Presenting: “OUSD The Center: Seeding Urban Resilience through Collaborative Design”
![Lisa Howard](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lisa-Howard-e1721158107629-300x300.jpg)
Lisa Howard, Founding Principal of Bay Tree Design
Presenting: “OUSD The Center: Seeding Urban Resilience through Collaborative Design”
![Kira Maritano](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Kira-Maritano-e1721158166392-300x300.jpg)
Kira Maritano, Senior Program Manager, Trust for Public Land
Presenting: “OUSD The Center: Seeding Urban Resilience through Collaborative Design”
![Kat Romo](https://asla-ncc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Kat-Romo-e1718659295506.jpg)
Kat Romo, M.S., School Gardens and Living Schoolyards Program Manager, The Center Education and Community Programming Team
Presenting: “OUSD The Center: Seeding Urban Resilience through Collaborative Design”
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Black Panther Party Museum
Guided Tour: “Black Panther Party Museum”