Gina Ford is a landscape architect, co-founder and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. Underpinning her two decades of practice are a commitment to the design and planning of public places and the perpetuation of the value of landscape architecture via thought leadership, teaching, writing and lecturing.  Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects, among others. She is on the board of directors for the City Parks Alliance and the stewardship council of The Cultural Landscape Foundation. She received the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, the Wellesley College’s Shaw Fellowship and the Boston Society of Architect’s Women in Design Award of Excellence. Download CV. 

An urban planner with a background in architecture, Rhiannon Sinclair's work focuses on complex urban systems across multiple scales. She uses data-driven strategies to better understand and enhance the relationship between people, buildings, systems and the public realm. Rhiannon has considerable experience communicating information to broad audiences to promote strong community exchange and empowerment within a planning process. In her work, she finds that the role of this type of exchange and master plan facilitation contributes to plans that are visionary, comprehensive, and implementable. Download CV.

Steve Woods is a landscape architect with a wide range of creative design experience in both public and private landscapes of varying scales. Once named by the ASLA Professional Practice Network as one of “Landscape Architecture's greatest unknown landscape architects”, his passion rests in the merging of art, history, community, and function, especially in urban landscapes. Areas of experience include design leadership for corporate headquarters, Middle Eastern new city planning, hospitality and entertainment venues, and mixed-use urban developments. Other interests include baking, painting, board games, travel and relaxing on or near water as often as possible.

Eamonn Hutton is a landscape architect with experience designing public landscapes at multiple scales. Eamonn has contributed design, planning, and research to a variety urban projects, including built landscapes and strategic parks master planning. He has a particular interest in the design of urban public spaces through an engaged public process and the role of technology in innovative spatial planning. Download CV.

Kari Roynesdal is an urban planner and designer who is passionate about public space in cities and how planning practice intersects with community activism and grounds social and cultural identities of place. She recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with concurrent degrees in Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture. She also has an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Virginia. During her time at the GSD, she was a recipient of an ASLA Honor Award and funded travel research through the Penny White Project Fund. In her spare time, she loves baking, a good bowl of ramen, and biking around Cambridge.

Estello is a landscape designer who was born in the Philippines, grew up in Las Vegas, and has lived in the northeast for the past decade. His relationship to these vastly different landscapes has informed his deep interest in landscape architecture’s role in forging links between place and memory. Prior to receiving his Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2019, where he was the University Olmsted Scholar in 2018, Estello studied biology and minored in English (race and ethnic studies focus) at Vassar College. Estello loves cake, enjoys reading and cooking, and is very much a Leo.

Laura Brusson is a landscape designer passionate about the interconnectivity of human experience, environmental health, and the magic of place-making. Laura has worn many hats before finding landscape architecture, including conducting research in evolutionary biology and working in ecological restoration. Originally from France, Laura holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was awarded the ASLA Certificate of Honor. Outside of work, Laura spends her free time re-learning to play piano, birdwatching, and playing with her dog Teagan.

Makio Yamamoto is a landscape designer from Providence, Rhode Island. He wishes to tackle issues related to climate change and environmental justice through landscape architecture’s power to communicate across different communities and viewpoints. He holds a BS in Architecture with a minor in Landscape Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis where he was a Steedman Student Travel Scholar and Elizabeth S. Schmerling Endowed scholar in 2019. In his spare time, Makio loves to compete in sports, take aimless walks around town, and play chess.

Jamaica is pursuing a dual Master of City Planning and Master of Architecture degree at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in Community and Economic Development. She is passionate about designing equitable, sustainable, and fun public spaces. A Northeastern University graduate, she did research on the affordable housing crisis in Boston. She enjoys exploring Boston’s parks and weaving small tapestries in her free time.