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Seattle
2003 Speakers and Panelists
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Charles
Anderson |
Principal,
Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture
Seattle, WA. |
Mr. Anderson is a licensed
Landscape Architect with over 20 years of experience in projects
focused on parks and open-space development. He has a strong background
in public process and has completed many community projects. Mr.
Anderson has a specific interest in expressionistic landscape
restoration and in the development of urban ecologies. He received
his B.S. Landscape Architecture at Washington State University
in 1981 and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University
in 1985. His work includes the restoration of the 500 Area in
Discovery Park (using native plants to integrate historical elements,
soil enrichment and landscape maintenance), Colman Park Enhancements,
and Mineral Springs Park (an art park and disco golf course).
Other examples of public work includes the Reserve at Pritchard
Beach (a 15-acre neighborhood wetland restoration plan along Lake
Washington), the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park in
downtown Seattle, the Arthur Ross Terrace for the American Museum
of Natural History in New York City, Roxhill Bog Project in West
Seattle (which received a Mayor/Seattle Design Commission award
in 2001), Coldwater and Johnston visitor centers at Mount St.
Helens National Volcanic Monument, and over 25 park projects in
the Seattle Metropolitan area.
Mr. Anderson is also a regular instructor for the Washington Federation
of Garden Clubs as well as a lecturer/critic at the University
of Washington, Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, the
Society for Ecological Restoration, and the Seattle Art Museum.
His work is featured in the book, On the Nature of Things: Contemporary
American Landscape Architecture by Gavin Keeney (published by
Birkhauser, 2000), and he contributes regularly to the Daily Journal
of Commerce on landscape, design, and environmental issues.
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Catherine
Anstett
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Pro-Parks
Public Information Officer
Seattle Parks and Recreation
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Anstett has worked to preserve open space in Seattle for nearly
two decades. In the 1980s she volunteered in the Fremont neighborhood,
served on a successful effort to extend the Burke-Gilman Trail,
and was part of the citizens group Open Space Advocates. After
serving on a 1989 citizens committee for a successful open space
bond measure, in 1990 she joined the Open Space Program staff
at Seattle Parks and Recreation. In 2000 she worked as staff on
the successful $198.2 million Seattle Pro Parks Levy campaign,
including wearing a gorilla suit to a campaign event. She now
does public information for the Pro Parks Levy acquisition program,
and staffs the Pro Park Levy Oversight Committee. |
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Charles
E Beveridge |
NAOP
Editor: The Olmsted Papers
The American University
Washington, D.C. |
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Charles
Birnbaum
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Coordinator
of the Historic Landscape Initiative, National Park Service
Heritage Preservation Services Program; President, Cultural
Heritage Foundation;
Member of Board of Trustees, NAOP
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Prior
to joining the NPS in 1992, Birnbaum spent a decade in private
practice with a focus on the preservation of historic landscapes.
Representative preservation planning projects include the Emerald
Necklace Parks, Boston, Massachusetts; Prospect Park, Brooklyn,
New York; Lake Washington Boulevard, Seattle, Washington; Albemarle
Park, Asheville, North Carolina, and, cultural landscape reports
for Andrew Jackson Downing's Springside and the Vanderbilt Mansion,
both National Historic Landmarks.
Recent NPS projects include the on-line technical series, Cultural
Landscape Currents, the publication, Guidelines for the Treatment
of Cultural Landscapes and a public-broadcasting quality film,
Connections: Preserving America's Landscape Legacy, narrated by
Angela Lansbury.
He has just completed editing Pioneers of American Landscape Design
for McGraw Hill and Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture for
Spacemaker Press. He currently serves as a co-editor for Cultural
Landscapes: Expanding the Realm of Historic Preservation for John
Wiley Publishers and Landscape Preservation in Context, 1890-1950
for the University of Virginia Press.
In 1995, the American Society of Landscape Architects awarded
Birnbaum the Historic Landscape Initiative, the President's Award
of Excellence, and in 1996 inducted him as a Fellow of the Society.
In 1998, Charles served as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate
School of Design during which time he founded the Cultural Landscape
Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to "stewardship
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Ken
Bounds
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Superintendent
Seattle Parks and Recreation
Seattle, WA.
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| Ken
started his public service with the City of Cleveland, Ohio as
an urban planner after he graduated from Baylor University in
1972 with a BA in Economics and Political Science, and after two
years of work toward an MA in Urban Planning at the University
of Iowa.
He started work at the City of
Seattle in 1976 for the Office of Policy Planning and in 1981
moved on to the Office of Management and Budget, working in
several different capacities, where then-Mayor Charles Royer
named him Budget Director in 1989.
Ken came to Seattle Parks and Recreation
as the Deputy Superintendent, and was appointed Superintendent
in 1996. He has a firm understanding and vision of what it takes
to manage an urban park and recreation system in the 21st century.
He surrounded himself with a host of experienced professionals
in recreation, environmental management, finance, management
and customer service, and has built a team he takes great pride
in.
Ken manages a staff of 1,000 that
swells to 1,500 in the summer; 6,600 acres of park land--ten
percent of the city's total acreage--, 24 community centers,
10 pools, a Zoo, an Aquarium, 3 environmental education centers,
400 parks and a population that is passionate about its parks.
He has led the city through several
successful bond issues and levy packages that have made possible
new community centers, new swimming pools, 350 acres of open
space, and a revitalized, world-class Zoo. In 1999 and 2000
voters in Seattle approved levies that provided over $134 million
for parks and recreation project and programs. He has reorganized
the Department to be more responsive to the growing neighborhood
movement in Seattle, and has developed numerous partnerships
with the public schools, local universities, local utilities,
neighborhood and community organizations, to deliver park and
recreation services to the citizens of Seattle.
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Taylor Bressler
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Spokane Parks
and Recreation
Spokane, WA.
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Ethan
Carr |
Assistant
Professor of Landscape Architecture
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA. |
Ethan
Carr is currently an assistant professor in the department of
landscape
architecture and regional planning, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. He
has previously worked for the National Park Service, the New York
City
Department of Parks, and several private design offices. He has
also taught at
the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the University of Virginia.
He has
masters degrees in art history (Columbia University) and landscape
architecture
(Harvard University). His book, Wilderness by Design: Landscape
Architecture
and the National Park Service received an American Society
of Landscape
Architects honor award in 1998. |
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Barbara
Culp
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President,
Bicycle Alliance, Seattle
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Barbara
Culp is the Executive Director of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington,
a statewide bicycle advocacy organization promoting bicycling
for everyday transportation and recreation. Barbara came to the
Bicycle Alliance after a career in special event management, marketing,
and law office management.
Educated as a social worker at Western Washington University,
she left social work to start her own family in a small community
in North Central Washington. It was there in rural Washington
that her love for bicycling was ignited; she toured England and
France with friends and never went back to horseback riding.
Barbara moved to Seattle to pursue additional education at the
University of Washington. Only one month in town she found a huge
bicycle rally. She joined the local bicycle club, became the newsletter
editor, managed several events, and rode to work everyday. After
twenty years in Seattle, she is proud to have combined her avocation
with her vocation and claims to have one of the best jobs in Washington
State.
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Karen
Daubert |
| Executive
Director, Seattle Parks Foundation |
Karen Daubert
has over twelve years experience in parks policy, advocacy, and
funding issues. Karen worked as an attorney for the King County
Prosecutor's Office where she focused on property acquisition,
parks, and real estate. She was appointed to several citywide
boards and commissions, including the Planning Commission, the
Seattle Board of Parks Commissioners, the Pro Parks 2000 Committee,
and the Pro Parks Oversight Committee. She founded and chaired
a city-wide advocacy group, Friends of Street Ends, was a founding
board member and board vice president of the Central Area Development
Association, and co-chair of the Central Park Trail Project. Karen
was hired as the first Executive Director of the Seattle Parks
Foundation in August, 2001. She received a Bachelor of Science
degree from the University of
Washington and a law degree from Seattle University. |
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Dan
Dewald
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Natural Resource
Manager, Natural Resource Division
City of Bellevue Parks and Community Services Department.
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DeWald has twenty years experience in the planning, design, management
and maintenance of urban green-space including greenways and trails,
street trees and arterial landscapes, forest and wetland open
space, urban farms and gardens and environmental education and
interpretation programs. Dan is a Society of American Forestry
Certified Forester and was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture to the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory
Council. Dan has BS degrees in both Forest Resource Management
and Wildland Recreation Management from the University of Idaho. |
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Susan
Dolan |
National
Park Service Historical Landscape Architect, Pacific West Region,
Seattle Office
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| Susan Dolan is a historical
landscape architect with the National Park Service. Susan's role
is split between the NPS Seattle office and Mount Rainier National
Park. Susan's Seattle office responsibilities include the identification,
treatment and preservation maintenance of cultural landscapes
within the region's national parks, and at Mount Rainier National
Park, she is responsible for the preservation of the park's National
Historic Landmark District. Susan has seven years of cultural
landscape preservation work experience with the National Park
Service. Susan has also worked in the private and public practice
of landscape architecture in both the United States and the United
Kingdom. Susan has degrees in Landscape Architecture and Horticulture.
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Steve
Dubiel |
| Executive
Director, EarthCorps, Seattle, WA. |
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is a Seattle-based environmental restoration nonprofit. EarthCorps
leads 10,000 youth and community volunteers annually in providing
100,000 hours of environmental service in local parks and open
spaces. Under Steve's tenure, EarthCorps has grown from a $600,000
organization with seasonal programming to a $1.6 million dollar
organization with year-round programming. Steve has an MBA and
diverse nonprofit management experience including work with outdoor
education programs and youth-based social service agencies. Steve
served with Children's Defense Fund prior to joining EarthCorps.
He is a 2001 graduate of Leadership Tomorrow. In addition to his
work with EarthCorps, Steve serves on the board of Earth Share
of Washington and is involved with the Magnuson Community Garden. |
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Gene
Duvernoy
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Executive
Director, Cascade Land Conservancy
Seattle, WA.
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Mr. Duvernoy has devoted
over 20 years to the preservation of major landscapes from a variety
of perspectives, including research, program development and management.
Under his leadership, CLC has developed into an organization with
a national reputation for negotiating cutting-edge land transactions
to preserve our region's major landscapes.
Prior to joining CLC, Gene's landscape preservation work included
directing the King County Farmland Preservation Program and developing
and implementing the County's Open Space Bond Program. Gene has
a Masters in Business Administration and law degree from Cornell
University, and an engineering degree from Carnegie-Mellon University.
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