Laura Starr, of Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, received her nomination, in Works, from the New York Chapter. During her 30-year career, Starr has exhibited sustained excellence. She has received 17 design awards in two decades. Her work across New York City has transformed daily experiences and revitalized landmarks synonymous with New York itself. She balances site ecology, aesthetics and lived experience, be it major parks, pocket plazas, cultural institutions, individual residences or major infrastructure works. Her designs invite visitors on a journey where quotidian urban reality falls away to reveal oases for the senses and the mind. To use her words, they make density livable. Through her lectures, panelist appearances, professional leadership, project work and visionary contributions to resiliency, she consistently advocates for evocative landscape solutions that enhance city life even as they accommodate the many functions of urban space.

Meg Storrow, ASLA
Storrow Kinsella
Indianapolis

Meg Storrow, of Storrow Kinsella, received her nomination, in Service, from the Indiana Chapter. For 30 years, Storrow has worked with community groups and professional organizations to improve neighborhoods and advance the profession of landscape architecture. Her brand of service and advocacy centers on enhancing the system from within. She gets involved in a neighborhood, organization, or board, then applies her professional skills, sociability and work ethic to better the entire community. She has participated in at least one pro bono meeting nearly every week of her entire career. At times, her volunteer workload has exceeded 30 hours per week, rivaling her full-time landscape architectural practice. Her service has positively affected a wide range of people and professions through such efforts as forest and watershed preservation, support for the Indiana licensure act and neighborhood advocacy in Indianapolis.

Jeffrey A. Townsend, ASLA
JACOBS
Sacramento, California

Jeffrey Townsend, of JACOBS, received his nomination, in Leadership/Management, from the California Sierra Chapter. Townsend's 30 years of achievement in professional leadership and management in the private sector embody a sustained record of advocacy in government affairs and his passion for improving his community's quality of life. His experience in interdisciplinary team-building has consistently put him in community building leadership roles. He is his firm's international resource, and his leadership has elevated the role of landscape architects generally in new areas of influence. He is also a leader in the advocacy of landscape architecture at the national, state and local levels, and has been instrumental in promoting and preserving landscape architect licensure in California. In Sacramento, his community leadership includes his significant impact on its urban forest, levees, complete streets and related urban design initiatives.

Ronald Trageser, ASLA
The Office of James Burnett
Houston

Ronald "Chip" Trageser, of The Office of James Burnett (OJB), received his nomination, in Works, from the Texas Chapter. Trageser has more than 20 years of outstanding professional achievement. He has been responsible for various mixed-use, healthcare and academic and corporate campus projects at OJB in Houston, where he is responsible for design and operations. He currently serves as the principal-in-charge for numerous mixed-use and corporate campus projects in the Woodlands and Houston areas, as well as for projects on the Rice and Baylor university campuses. Among his notable projects are the Rice University Brochstein Pavilion and Brockman Physics Building, Lakeshore East Park in Chicago, Klyde Warren Park in Dallas and Northbelt Campus in Houston. He serves on the Louisiana State University Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture alumni advisory council and regularly employs student interns from the program.

About the American Society of Landscape Architects
Founded in 1899, ASLA is the national professional association for landscape architects, representing more than 15,000 members in 49 professional chapters and 72 student chapters. Members of the Society use "ASLA" after their names to denote membership and their commitment to the highest ethical standards of the profession. Landscape architects lead the stewardship, planning, and design of our built and natural environments; the Society's mission is to advance landscape architecture through advocacy, communication, education and fellowship.

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