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Women's History Month 2024

Literacy education allows readers to grow in their understanding of themselves, their communities, and the world, and Girl Power promotes the importance of self-esteem for young girls and women. 

This special initiative of ASLA Career Discovery and Diversity promotes literacy education while introducing young girls to the design of outdoor spaces with natural environments through design charrettes.

National ASLA is inviting all 50 chapters to host a literacy-based design event with their local elementary school. 

Learn more about the literacy-based design charrette and sign up here.

Middle-High School: Virtual Career Day featuring Women Landscape Architects   

Landscape architecture is a vibrant field comprised of design professionals making a difference in their communities and around the world. Featured video presentations will highlight a variety of career options within the profession. Just like live Career Day presentations, you'll hear from dynamic landscape architects around the world who love their careers, have amazing hobbies, and love to travel. Presenters will talk about their journey to discover landscape architecture, their jobs, explorations in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and careers in design.

Watch Ujijji Davis, ASLA, landscape architect and urban planner with SmithGroup, as she shares her passion for designing parks, plazas, playgrounds, and cool city spaces. One of her most rewarding projects was restoring and reopening her childhood playground in Central Park. Now it's filled with a new generation of children who are creating their own cherished memories. Her advice to girls is to know the truth about yourself, despite what other people say or think about you. Being self-assured and confident in the things you do will help you tune out negativity.

About Ujijji Davis Williams, ASLA

Ujijji Davis Williams is a practicing landscape architect and urban planner who focuses on landscape and urban design, cultural landscapes and planning process. She is the founder of JIMA (jee-mah) Studio, a landscape architectural design and urban planning studio that collaborates with community groups, organizations and builders committed to culturally relevant placemaking and strategic implementation that centralize participatory design methods to provide full site design and planning services, from idea to implementation.  She was recently honored as a Notable Alumni by Cornell University's Department of Landscape Architecture and as 2023 Outstanding Recent Alumni from the University of Michigan's Taubman College. She is also the recipient of the 2020 Michigan ASLA Emerging Professionals Award. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University, and a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. She’s originally from Brooklyn.

Amanda Coen, ASLA

Oh the places she's seen, the places she's gone! Watch Amanda's video and see where landscape architecture has taken this designer with a passion for textiles and study abroad!   

About Amanda Coen, ASLA 

Amanda is a landscape designer, researcher and writer. She has an undergraduate degree in International Studies with a focus in Anthropology and a minor in Studio Art from Macalester College and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia. She worked as a designer at Snohetta for over three years and was the recipient of the 2019 Deborah J. Norden Fund from the Architectural League for her project that investigates the role cultural institutions could play in imagining rural futures. She is currently based in South America working on several projects with wHY and drawings with Fibershed from afar while also uncovering the local scene.

Patricia Algara, ASLA

Watch the i+create=parks: Patricia Algara video (6:57), then access her Career Day presentation and learn how she combines her love for landscape architecture with her love of bees.

About Patricia Algara, ASLA 

Patricia was born and raised in Mexico, she is a founding principal of BASE Landscape Architecture. A recognized leader in sustainable design and community involvement, Patricia creates landscapes that immerse people of all backgrounds and abilities in learning, exploration and play. Patricia’s community involvement and advocacy expand the boundaries of traditional landscape architecture. She founded an NGO "With Honey in The Heart"  that creates healthy habitats for pollinators and educates about the importance of bees. She has lectured at many universities and has won two national faculty ASLA awards. She received her MLA from UC Berkeley in 2007.

Explore past ASLA Women's History Month Highlights 

Learn more about ASLA members who are pioneers in landscape architecture and award winners, then view their stunning projects here.