Jeremy Anterola 
Kansas State University
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Jeremy Anterola is currently completing a theoretical research-based design entitled ‘Intelligent Environments'', proposing as an alternative to static, master-planned designs--that dynamic conditions require equally dynamic solutions. His study on the Iron Horse Trestle, elevated railroad and subway, proposes embedding structures with interactive, smart mechanisms that sense, respond, adapt, mutate, and emerge over time to define the contemporary park ? an open-ended, reactive, and indeterminate framework. Jeremy is actively involved in the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students, a multi-disciplinary design group currently collaborating with a professional multi-disciplinary firm on a design-build campus memorial. He is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Jean Beaupre 
North Dakota State University
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture

Jean Beaupre is currently pursuing two undergraduate degrees, in Landscape Architecture and a second degree in Sociology. Jean grew up outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota with her parents and three sisters. She has a growing passion for sustainable design and societal health. She wants to work collaboratively to help to serve the needs of those around her. Her leadership roles in many organizations on campus will make coming into the professional role a manageable transition. Jean knows when a task needs to be completed and has no problem finding every means to accomplish that task efficiently and effectively.

Ashley Brazeal 
Clemson University
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture

Ashley Brazeal began her university work with the pursuit of a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree before deciding that she could use her creative instincts in another area that she was greatly interested in: landscape design and preservation. She has worked to apply ecological and conservation concepts in each of her projects, and is interested in incorporating sustainable practices at the regional and local levels. Ashley is an active member in several university organizations, including the Solid Green campaign to make Clemson a more energy-efficient and sustainable campus. After graduation, she hopes to work in the field of environmental and ecological planning with emphases on green infrastructure and riparian restoration.

Gavin Cain 
University of Florida
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Minor in Urban and Regional Planning

Gavin developed his interest for the landscape architecture profession while growing up in the suburbs of southwest Orlando, Florida. Determined to contribute to the improvement of the physical and natural world around him, Gavin is pursuing his studies in Landscape Architecture at the University of Florida. In his studies and professional experiences with EDSA and Dix.Lathrop & Associates, he has been afforded the opportunity to experience first-hand the subtleties that lead to the creation of socially, economically, and ecologically viable and sustainable communities. As a student leader for the American Society of Landscape Architects, Gavin has actively participated in advocating and educating the public about the profession. His passion for the profession lies in the public realm and social landscape. In the future, he hopes to work with a socially responsible firm and eventually continue his education at the graduate level in Urban Design.

Ryan Cambridge 
Purdue University
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture

Ryan was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. After graduating from high school with academic honors in 2004, he enrolled in Purdue University''s landscape architecture program. In 2005 Ryan was elected as the vice-president of the Purdue American Society of Landscape Architecture (PASLA). Shortly following in 2006, he founded the Boiler Green Initiative; a campus-wide student organization that focuses on evaluating and enhancing the sustainability of Purdue University. They are currently designing and installing Purdue University''s first green roof. After graduating from Purdue in 2009, he plans to begin his career as a professional landscape architect. He looks forward to being able to do his part to create a more sustainable environment where all ecologies; natural, infrastructural, and social are more seamlessly intertwined and supported.

Nina Chase 
West Virginia University
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Minor in Political Science

Nina Chase is interested in the role landscape architects can play in the realm of city planning and land use policy. She believes that landscape architects have the unique responsibility of engaging social, environmental, and economic goals, providing the collaborative link between cities and their residents. Nina is also interested in exploring how sustainable design and appropriate policy can positively affect the development issues that strain many of the nation''s growing cities. She is currently working on an initial phase to beautify one of West Virginia University''s deteriorating student housing neighborhoods. After graduating in May 2010, Nina plans to pursue a Masters of Landscape Architecture focusing on ecologically sensitive urban design and revitalization.

Claudia de la Fuente 
California Poly, San Luis Obispo
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Concentration in Planting Design and Art History

Claudia has developed a strong interest in both color theory and planting design in order to evoke emotion, encourage play, and move people through space. Claudia believes that community involvement is critical to both the design and well being of public spaces. Her senior project involves revitalizing an underutilized 32-acre park in San Francisco while integrating the sites sculptural topography, layers of history, and the diversity of adjacent neighborhoods. Upon graduation Claudia will pursue a professional practice that seeks to reinvent public landscapes to provide educational and social spaces while balancing community and environmental needs. Within her undergraduate studies, Claudia has set the stage for life-long learning and plans to seek licensure as well as a graduate education.

Peter Emerson 
Temple University
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture

Peter Emerson undertook the Bachelor''s degree program in landscape architecture after years of experience farming, teaching, and advocating for more sustainable land stewardship and healthier communities. His ambition includes the advancement and promotion of service-oriented planning and design for underprivileged communities. This purpose stems from Peter''s experience as a child growing up in the impoverished country of Haiti. where he realized the potential of design as a catalyst for significant change. His current volunteer service includes farm master planning and urban agriculture systems design. Peter is interested in expanding the role and scope of service opportunities within the profession of landscape architecture.

Colby Gray 
Ball State University
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Colby Gray, who holds a BA in General Studies from Indiana University, with a concentration in Arts and Humanities and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management, is now in the MLA program at Ball State University. He is interested in discovering how household landscapes can be a source of sustainable production (of food, energy, water purification, heating/cooling) and how these sorts of decentralized production systems can increase the health of the environment, people, and the economy. His urban garden project has received beautification awards and recently was awarded a grant to model stormwater systems. Colby hopes to work for a landscape architecture firm that focuses on creating sustainable landscapes through ecological design and is mindful of social issues and concerns. He has committed to his hometown, Muncie, Indiana, where he hopes to be a catalyst for environmental and social health through civic participation and sustainable food and energy production.

Bryan Harrison 
University of Rhode Island
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Minor in Horticulture

After attending an agricultural high school in Connecticut for conservation, Bryan moved to Vermont for four years and became involved with local-economy movements and public interest research groups. He spent time learning about sustainability, organic farming, and the ecological issues facing our nation and planet. In 2007 he returned to university to pursue landscape architecture as a profession. He is interested in the interrelationship of people and their environments. He has a great love for both the arts and horticulture and is intrigued by the influence that designers have throughout our lives. He is excited to create public spaces using innovative ecological design. Bryan currently works with the Rhode Island Coastal Resource Management Council creating plans for coastal buffer zones and graphics for a native plant design guide. In the future he plans on exploring landscape architecture''s role in environmental and historical restoration projects.

Regina Irizarry 
Morgan State University
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Regina Irizarry is interested in the design of the urban environment and urban revitalization within a historic and cultural context. She hopes to travel within the United States and abroad to explore successful models of urban revitalization and settlement and to apply this study to her thesis work next year. Regina recently co-authored a paper titled The Impact of Urban Revitalization and Relocation on Transportation System Demand which will be published by the Transportation Research Board. She received her undergraduate degree in Art and continues to use art, particularly drawing, painting and printmaking, as a form of expression.

Brent Jacobsen 
University of Arizona
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Brent Jacobsen received a Bachelor''s degree in Studio Art from Stanford University. After working as a cabinetmaker for the US House of Representatives, he entered the field of landscape architecture for its ability to address environmental concerns through design. His interests include improving urban areas ecologically and socially and the intersection of art and landscape architecture. Topics include emerging living architecture technologies, urban habitat and green infrastructure, and the use of fine art as a communication and ideation tool for landscape architecture. Brent received a Sigma Lambda Alpha Travel Grant to tour green roofs in Germany and Switzerland in support of his thesis. He is developing a planning model for prioritizing green roof implementation in urban areas, emphasizing green roofs as urban habitat elements and environmental infrastructure for underserved communities. Brent hopes to continue his research through a Fulbright Grant to Germany and subsequent work with an urban design firm.

Jenna Jones 
University of Michigan
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Before pursuing her Master''s degree in Landscape Architecture, Jenna received her Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Minnesota. She has a passion for travel and cultural research and recently created her own study in a subtropical lowland region of Nepal where she examined the relationships between people and plants in community forests. Her master''s thesis, “Cultural Bridges,” is a group project designing a cross-cultural corridor and garden design in a diverse neighborhood near Detroit, Michigan. The design celebrates the diversity of the area, and seeks to unite it by utilizing participatory design to cultivate conversations between conflicting groups. This project is an exploration not only in cross-cultural outreach and uniting traditionally oppressed communities, but also emphasizes the important role of ecological sensitivity in modern design. After graduate school, Jenna hopes to combine all these interests and work in a collaborative design firm that concentrates on the integration of culturally-sensitive, ecologically sound, and place-specific design.

Jordan Jones 
Mississippi State University
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Jordan Jones came in to Landscape Architecture at the beginning of her college career thanks to working at a small design build firm that employed a landscape architect who encouraged her to pursue the degree. Through school, the scale of her intended career changed drastically from working at a small scale to looking at regional models, developing her passion for advocacy and public policy. Her theory of landscape architecture is continually growing, but is based on the idea that sustainable design boils down to simply solving problems. She plans to pursue a career in the public sector developing policy encouraging and aiding in sustainable, resilient planning. Through May 2009 she will be serving as National Student Representative to the ASLA Board of Trustees. She is attending graduate school immediately after graduation in City and Regional Planning, and will possibly go on to attend law school.

David Malda 
University of Virginia
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Architecture

As an undergraduate student David studied art history, studio art, third world development and Spanish at Calvin College. This included a semester studying community development in Honduras. Following school he worked for Integrated Architecture in Grand Rapids, MI as a LEED Accredited Professional. David is currently pursuing a dual degree in landscape and building architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. While in graduate school he has pursued opportunities to develop the potential of collaboration and communication, editing two volumes of the multidisciplinary journal lunch as well as well as participating in a design charrette in Shanghai China and several other competitions. His current research explores how increasing environmental concerns and shifts in mobility transform our understanding of the conflicts between global and local priorities and our expectations of the role of infrastructure in supporting the health of cities.

Ailyn Mendoza 
Florida International University
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Minor in Art History

Believing in art, design and the environment as a dynamic combination with the ability to change lives, Ailyn Mendoza embarked towards a degree in Landscape Architecture ? a perfect fusion of these elements. Choosing to focus her career on urban landscapes, she has participated in programs abroad, seeking to increase her education on alternative urban systems. Back in Miami, she plays an active role within her school and neighborhood through involvement in student and community groups and strives to apply her education towards a good cause. In the future, she looks forward to continuing her studies with a Master''s Degree in Urban Planning and working towards cultivating new environments that challenge preconceived notions of Landscape Architecture.

Tim Mollette-Parks 
University of California, Berkeley
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Tim Mollette-Parks spent 10 years working as a journalist at daily newspapers in Kentucky, Kansas City, Charlotte, N.C. and finally in Chicago. While in Chicago, he organized a community maintenance crew for a Jens Jensen-designed park. It was during this process that the notion of landscape architecture as a new career began to click. Soon after, he moved to the West Coast and began his pursuit of the Master of Landscape Architecture degree at UC Berkeley. His design and research work at Berkeley has focused on how landscape design can meld infrastructural needs with enduring placemaking-- finding the overlap of function and beauty. His work outside of Berkeley''s landscape department has led him to present design-research at the International Garden Symposium at the Kyoto-University of Art and Design and at the University of California Energy Symposium and to produce volunteer design work for the San Francisco Neighborhood Parks Council.

Jessica Moore 
Oklahoma State University
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Minor in Studio Art

Jessica is currently a fourth year student in the five year accreditation program at Oklahoma State University. She has always had an eye for design, and has a great appreciation for all art and design elements. She also has a love for the environment and is fascinated by the ways we as landscape architects can improve our land and our outside environment. Currently Jessica is in pursuit of an education that will fulfill her quest of making people happy. Her design philosophy includes making a space animate, special, and memorable. Her future plans include creating design works for the people of society, including sustainable design involving improvements of our environment. As a Native American she ultimately wants to improve the tribal lands of our native communities and work in involving outer connections within all cultures throughout the world.

Robert Nelson 
University of California, Davis
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture

Robert''s interest in golf course architecture led him back to school to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture. Before returning to school he worked for six years in golf course construction and maintenance, and traveled to several countries around the world. While traveling he invested time studying regional golf course typologies, understanding the importance of establishing a sense place in our built environment. He is interested in creating social and environmental equality by incorporating local values into the golf course landscape. Robert intends to pursue a graduate degree in Landscape Architecture where he will focus on the integration of community into golf course design and development. He is currently engaged in developing principles of resilient design for golf courses in California.

Janice Nicol 
University of Texas, Austin
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Janice Nicol is a California native, who earned a BA in art and comparative literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She had the opportunity to promote community outreach both through local urban renewal projects during her undergraduate tenure and in a professional role at a non-profit organization in Los Angeles before moving to Texas to begin graduate school. Her current educational interests include testing the potential of the discipline as a vehicle for social improvement by focusing on the performative and aesthetic functions of landscapes as they pertain to the challenges of communities typically underserved by mainstream landscape architectural practices. Janice aspires to an entrepreneurial role as a professional Landscape Architect committed to creating spirited environments for learning and growth. She also intends to contribute to the written discourse of the field in publications appealing to both the general public and an academic readership.

Neal Overstrom 
University of Massachusetts
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Neal Overstrom''s professional background is in the public aquarium profession where he applied his academic training in biology and zoology to the areas of animal care, aquatic system operations, exhibit design and zoological management. He has undertaken fieldwork in landscapes from the Canadian subarctic to Baja, Mexico, as well as engaged in issues such as tourism and economic development at a regional level. He is currently pursuing a Master of Landscape Architecture degree with an interest in the intersection of ecological design, materials technology, and the craft of landscape detail. This is where he sees the connection between the aesthetic, which nurtures the human spirit, and sustainability, which nurtures the health of our future. He looks forward to building on these ideas through discourse and design in a professional practice setting.

Lee Pouliot 
Cornell University
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Lee M. Pouliot received a Bachelor''s degree in Ornamental Horticulture specializing in Environmental Design from Delaware Valley College in 2007. His undergraduate years were focused on ecological design techniques, placing high emphasis on plants. These skills were solidified when he participated in Katrina relief projects for Bay St. Louis & Waveland, Mississippi, re?designing and installing two community parks. Following these projects, Lee formed an interest in how communities are connected to landscape. Now pursuing a Master''s degree in Landscape Architecture, Lee has further developed his interest in the people/landscape interface, at both the small and large scale. He strives to find ways of integrating constructed systems and natural systems to improve overall ecological health while maintaining desired functionality. He has held internships at the Henry Schmieder Arboretum, Mt. Cuba Center, dedicated to the study and protection of Piedmont flora, and Fallingwater, a Frank Lloyd Wright home in western Pennsylvania.

Kari Rushe 
Pennsylvania State University
Degree sought: Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Architecture

Kari Rushe came to Penn State to study architecture, but two short weeks into her first semester decided that landscape architecture would be a better fit for her ever-widening array of academic interests. Ultimately, Kari wants to focus her career on the ‘cultural sustainability'' of rainwater management. Consequently, her undergraduate honors thesis is based on studying the visual preferences of homeowners in regards to stormwater management installations in the residential right-of-way. She feels the public value of appearance should be as important as ecology and economics in the realm of sustainability. Upon graduation, Kari will be getting married and joining her husband in Cincinnati, Ohio where she plans to begin her career by integrating her theories into practice in the residential sector.

Deborah Steinberg 
Chatham University
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Deborah Steinberg received her undergraduate degree in Resource Ecology & Management from the University of Michigan and a Master of Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. After working as an environmental educator overseas and in the states, she returned to school to pursue a Master in Landscape Architecture at Chatham University. Continuing her passion for sustainability and the environment, Deborah''s studies focus on integrating natural systems into the built environment to reduce energy and material use, resulting in a more sustainable urban landscape. She is currently researching the environmental and end of life impacts of green construction materials. After graduate school, Deborah plans to continuing working in urban environments and further promoting the role of landscape in the green building movement.

Denton Tarver 
City College of New York
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Denton earned his Bachelor of Science in the Arts from SUNY, Empire State with a concentration in theater. In addition to performing, directing, teaching in New York and around the world, Denton has been working with the Greenacre Foundation, alongside the New York City Parks Department. His work there has given him special insight into restoration of historic gardens and the nuts and bolts of urban parks management. In addition to creating sustainable designs at a variety of scales, Denton plans to use his background in communications to further investigate the role of new technology and media in design presentations and heightened public awareness.

Atisha Varshney 
Rhode Island School of Design
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Atisha Varshney''s studied architecture for five years at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and graduated in 2003. The experiences of her undergraduate years solidified her understanding of the basic elements of space and its meaning. However, She was intrigued about the influence of socioeconomic factors on physical and natural ‘sustenance''. She did not feel confident in relating the built (architecture) and the unbuilt (natural world) as one exhaustive system. This motivated Atisha to pursue a Master''s Degree in Landscape Architecture at RISD. This opportunity gives has given her a broader canvas to compare and contrast between the developed and developing nations, the design aspects of manmade vs. natural; and she is gaining an understanding of all aspects of sustaining through a creative approach. She wishes to be the catalyst in a socio-economic process that it will bear the potential of becoming a part of the larger socio?ecological system, encompassing all attributes of living?physical, cultural and natural.

Emily Vogler 
University of Pennsylvania
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

Emily Vogler is completing her second year in the three-year first professional Master of Landscape Architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. She graduated with a BA in Environmental Design from the University of New Mexico in 2006. Emily has worked for the improvement of the environment in New Mexico, Texas, Oregon and New York, where she worked on the PLANYC Million Trees Urban Reforestation Initiative. Focused now upon landscape architectural and urban design, Emily has broadened her interests in resource management, sustainability and the ethical use of land to embrace the physical design and creation of new forms of public landscape. Her leadership capacity derives not only from an exceptionally deep understanding of land and environment but also from a passionate and easy relationship with people ? from the Arizona Navajo to Texas ranchers, Oregon loggers, Brazilian villagers, New York parks and recreation professionals, and now with her fellow students and faculty teachers at PENN, where she was unanimously elected as the research editor for the School Journal, VIA.

Lindsay Winkler 
Utah State University
Degree sought: Master of Landscape Architecture

Originally from Ohio, Lindsay lived in Alaska prior to attending Utah State in 2007. She received a BS in Natural Resource Management from Oregon State University. She won the Green Space Institute Award in 2008 for her thesis entitled “From concept to contract: How the marriage of people and ecology is changing open space planning,” studying new strategies open space planners can use to merge participatory and ecological planning. She also won the Outstanding 1st year Grad Award in 2008, and the David Jensen Scholarship which provided a summer internship at David Jensen Associates in Denver, CO. Lindsay is a member of Alaska Recreation and Park Association, Alaska Trails, American Society of Landscape Architects, American Planning Association, and the Society for Ecological Restoration.