Michele Palmer, ASLA

Michele Palmer, an upstate New York native and Cornell University Alumna, has been a practicing landscape architect for nearly thirty years. She is also an educator, an academic researcher, and a landscape archaeologist. As a volunteer in the NY Upstate ASLA chapter, Palmer joined the Executive Committee in 2014 as Vice President for Programs and has served in various roles continuously since then, currently as Trustee. 

Palmer is licensed in the State of New York and is LEED® accredited. Her practice covers a broad scale, currently focused on public projects, having prepared or administered grants totaling over $30,000,000. Palmer values the benefits of large-scale planning projects that positively impact entire communities, often these are impoverished.

As trustee, she is hopeful to contribute as a representative of the Upstate chapter, supporting efforts at the national level to educate legislators about landscape architecture as a profession to ensure our inclusion in conversations about social justice, infrastructure, planning, and environmental policy.