2025 Olmsted Scholars Induction Ceremony
This virtual celebration honored the 53 graduate and 38 undergraduate students named as 2025 LAF Olmsted Scholars.
With its $25,000 graduate and $15,000 undergraduate prize, the LAF Olmsted Scholars Program is the premier leadership recognition program for landscape architecture students. The online induction on September 5, 2025 celebrated these rising leaders and welcome them to the community of 1,254 LAF Olmsted Scholars named since the program’s inception in 2008.
The ceremony featured presentations from a past scholar and the two 2025 national winners:
- Maria Muñoz, PhD Candidate, Tulane University School of Public Health (2015 LAF National Olmsted Scholar)
- Olive Tang, University of California, Davis, 2025 LAF National Olmsted Scholar (Undergraduate)
- Issam Azzam, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2025 LAF National Olmsted Scholar (Graduate)
Recordings from the event are posted below. Watch to learn more about this prestigious program and see some of the ideas and issues the next generation of designers is poised to tackle.
Meet the 2025 LAF Olmsted Scholars
The LAF Olmsted Scholars Program honors students with exceptional leadership potential who are using ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership to advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits.
Now in its 18th year, the program recognizes one outstanding student from each accredited landscape architecture program in the US and Canada, along with the jury-selected graduate and undergraduate national award winners and finalists. (The 2025 winners and finalists are shown here.)
The LAF Olmsted Scholars are recognized for past achievements and for their future potential to influence the landscape architecture discipline.
The full induction ceremony as well as recordings of the presentations and videos played during the event can be viewed below.
Schedule
4:00pm Welcome + Introduction, Danielle Carbonneau, Senior Program Manager, Landscape Architecture Foundation
4:05pm Keynote Address, Maria Muñoz, 2015 LAF National Olmsted Scholar
4:12pm Recognition of undergraduate 2025 LAF Olmsted Scholars, finalists, and national winner, Alexa Bush, LAF President-elect
4:25pm Recognition of graduate 2025 LAF Olmsted Scholars, finalists, and national winner, Alma Du Solier, LAF President
4:40pm Presentation, Olive Tang, University of California, Davis, 2025 LAF National Olmsted Scholar (Undergraduate)
4:50pm Presentation, Issam Azzam, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2025 LAF National Olmsted Scholar (Graduate)
5:02pm Closing Remarks, Danielle Carbonneau, Senior Program Manager, Landscape Architecture Foundation
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Full Event Recording
Keynote Address by Maria Muñoz, 2015 LAF National Olmsted Scholar
Undergraduate 2025 LAF Olmsted Scholars Video
Undergraduate 2025 LAF National Olmsted Scholar Finalists Video
Presentation by Olive Tang, 2025 LAF National Olmsted Scholar (Undergraduate)
Graduate 2025 LAF Olmsted Scholars Video
Graduate 2025 LAF National Olmsted Scholar Finalists Video
Presentation by Issam Azzam, 2025 LAF National Olmsted Scholar (Graduate)
