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Alpa Nawre is an assistant professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning at Kansas State University and a partner at her design practice DNA, Alpa Nawre Design. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of landscape architecture and urban design, and interdisciplinary and international collaborations are strong foundations of her scholarship. Her work has been exhibited at the AIA National Conference in Boston and recognized through prizes such as the IFLA International Student Competition Award in Sydney, Australia. Nawre received a master’s degree in urban design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and she received a Master of Landscape Architecture from LSU in 2007. She received a Bachelor in Architecture from NIT in Raipur, India. She is a LEED AP, licensed architect in India and a licensed landscape architect in the state of Kansas.

Andrea Galinski is a 2012 Master Plan Outreach and Engagement team member with expertise in visual communication and design thinking. Her work focuses on using visual language to illustrate complex socio-environmental issues and engage greater public discourse. Prior to her current position, Andrea worked at LSU’s Coastal Sustainability Studio (CSS), an interdisciplinary studio comprised of designers, coastal scientists and engineers. Andrea received her MLA from the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture in 2010, and shortly after worked at the school as an adjunct faculty member. Interests include: regional and urban landscape design; super-wicked environmental problems; ecologic infrastructure; landscape representation.

Emily Bullock is an associate at Spackman Mossop+Michaels in New Orleans, Louisiana. Bullock’s work focuses on sustainable landscape design and planting design, especially regarding the use of native plants. She has worked on a range of projects that involve comprehensive storm-water management practices and the capture and reuse of water on site. Bullock received a Master of Landscape Architecture from the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture in 2009 and has a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature from Davidson College. Prior to pursuing landscape architecture, Bullock worked for Save the Children on the Hurricane Katrina Response Team.

Earl Broussard received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from LSU in 1972. Broussard has had a lifelong passion for history, storytelling, and landscape architecture, and his journey has taken him from his beloved LSU and the halls of Harvard University to teaching at Texas A&M and LSU. His professional work has taken him across the globe. He began TBG Partners in 1987, and under his leadership the firm has become one of the nation’s premier landscape architecture and planning firms, with offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Josh Brooks is a 2012 graduate of the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, and is currently a project designer at Design Workshop Inc., in Denver, Colorado, where he has worked on several park and plaza projects in Las Vegas, Denver, Omaha, and other parts of the country. Brooks has contributed to several infrastructure projects in Lincoln and Denver, including the deconstruction and rebuilding of Interstate 70 in downtown Denver. He was a project manager and designer of the master plan for a 2,000-acre, new city in Morocco centered on environmental tourism. His work has been published in LandscapeUrbanismJournal, World Landscape Architecture, and the Land 8 Lounge.

Josh’s Portfolio

Tary Arterburn, FASLA, is a founding principal of Studio Outside in Dallas, Texas, and was a founder and managing partner of MESA from 1981 to 2010. He led MESA’s growth from its local roots in Texas to its presence in the international urban design marketplace. His projects infuse nature, art, and technology in a way that welcomes human interaction and comfort. Projects of note are Shangri La Botanical Garden and Nature Center, One and Two Arts Plaza, NorthPark Center, and FBC Plaza, designed during his tenure at MESA. Aterburn has received several peer-reviewed design awards and honors, including Consultant of the Year from the Dallas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from LSU in 1979.

Paul Russell partnered with David Pearson to form Pearson Russell Landscape Architecture in 2010. Pearson Russell has offices in Pendleton, South Carolina, and Asheville, North Carolina. Russell has designed and built a range of public, institutional, and residential projects throughout New England and the Southeast. Russell’s collaborations with David Pearson have been recognized by awards from the Tri-State ASLA, the South Carolina AIA, and PICA. Prior to joining Pearson Russell, Russell was a project manager and designer at Reed Hilderbrand Associates in Watertown, Massachusetts, where his work at the Central Wharf Plaza at Boston Harbor received an Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects and an Honor Award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects. Russell is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and received his Master of Landscape Architecture from LSU in 2005. He is currently an assistant professor at Clemson University, where he has been teaching since 2010, and is a fellow of the Community Research and Design Center.

Lewis Aqüi, ASLA, LEED AP (BLA 1988), is a registered landscape architect in Florida and the president, principal and owner of Lewis Aqüi Landscape + Architectural Design (LA2d), which he established in 2012 after collaborating successfully for more than a decade as a partner in another firm. LA2d specializes in the creation and renovation of exquisite residential estates, boutique hotels, commercial buildings, public parks, and institutional site development projects throughout Florida and the Caribbean. LA2D employs a working passion of related disciplines to create outdoor living spaces of superb distinction.

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Stephen Plunkard, FASLA, has practiced planning, urban design, landscape architecture and public engagement for 40 years. The majority of his work has been in the United States, but on occasion he has worked on projects in the Middle East, Europe, Canada and Africa. Projects he has worked on have won awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, American Institute of Architects, Urban Land Institute and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. During his career, he has a successful consulting firm and has been in leadership positions in international firms. He has been a lecturer and critic at more than a dozen universities and colleges. He was invited to the White House as SBA Small Business of the Year.

Recently he completed a prototype master plan for the New Start school and orphanage in Waterfall, Zimbabwe. While living in Canada, he prepared a master plan for the First Nation, Blood Band of the Blackfoot Nation in Alberta. He is currently working on preparing plans for a Native American heritage river trail in southern Vermont. He is currently researching the impact of internet sales on historic villages and downtowns, as well as the adaptive reuse of shopping malls.