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Charles Birnbaum, Beka Sturges & Thomas Woltz

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, is the president, CEO, and founder of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). Prior to creating TCLF, Birnbaum spent fifteen years as the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative (HLI) and a decade in private practice in New York City, with a focus on landscape preservation and urban design. One of his major projects is the Web-based initiative What's Out There (a searchable database of the nation's designed landscape heritage)  

Beka Sturges, ASLA, LEED AP, is a Principal of Reed Hilderbrand and leads the firm's New Haven office. Her work is noted for its powerful spatial demonstrations of the cultural and environmental value of landscapes. Since opening the New Haven office, she has led both private and public projects. Current work includes landscapes at Yale and Brown Universities, Storm King Art Center, and Boscobel House and Gardens. Actively collaborating with the City of New Haven, she initiated the vision plan and is overseeing the implementation of the Mill River Trail, a 4-acre linear park running through the center of New Haven. Beka served as the project landscape architect and manager for the award-winning expansion of The Clark Art Institute in the Berkshires. A committed educator, she teaches landscape studios at Connecticut College.  

Thomas Woltz is the owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. He was named the Design Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal Magazine in 2013. In 2011, he was invested into the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows, among the highest honors achieved in the profession.

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