2019 Panelists
Gina Ford is co-founder and principal of Agency Landscape and Planning, which she founded after two decades of practice at Sasaki Associates. In addition to her focus on designing equitable public spaces, Gina advocates for gender equality in the Landscape Profession through activism, writing, and teaching.
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Sanjukta Sen is senior associate at James Corner Field Operations. Prior to joining Field Operations, Sanjukta practiced with S. Ghosh & Associates in New Delhi, working on several large scale development projects including the 2,000-acre JSPL Township in Orissa, which involved designing resettlement colonies for displaced people. She was a 2018 Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellow, studying waterfront zoning and resiliency.
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Jha D. Williams is senior associate at MASS Design Group, which she joined after practicing as an architectural designer at Sasaki Associates. Among other projects, she is currently working on a memorial to victims of gun violence. In addition to practicing architecture as a form of activism, she works to create social spaces for artists, especially for LGBTQIA communities of color and she performs as a spoken word artist.
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Maura Rockcastle is principal and co-founder of ten x ten, a landscape firm she founded in her hometown of Minneapolis after working as a designer at James Corner Field Operations and Snohetta. She has worked on equity-focused projects such as Butaro Hospital in Rwanda and Freedom Square, a temporary community plaza for gathering and protest in Minneapolis.
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Sarah Zewde is founding principal of Studio Zewde, a design firm practicing at the intersection of landscape architecture, urbanism, and public art, which she began after working as a designer at GGN. Her 2014 LAF Olmsted Scholar Fellowship led to a design proposal for a memorial at the historic slave port, Volongo Wharf in Rio de Janiero. In 2018 she received a Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship and Graham Foundation Grant to pursue Cotton Kingdom Now, retracing Olmsted’s journeys through southern slave states in 1852, in order to investigate the relationship between Olmsted’s writings and his landscape practice. She participated in last year’s Howland Panel, Landscape Perspectives for Future Publics and we are very happy to have her back this year.
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