ASLA’s Women in Landscape Architecture Professional Practice Network (WILA PPN) is sharing the next trio of profiles of women in the profession (see last week’s set right here). If you’d like to be featured, the PPN’s call for submissions will remain open, with profiles being shared on an ongoing basis.
These profiles will appear on the PPN’s LinkedIn group, Facebook group, and here on The Field. This post includes Kathryn Talty, ASLA, Aida Curtis, FASLA, and CeCe Haydock, ASLA. Stay tuned for more WILA profiles in the coming weeks as our celebration of women in landscape architecture continues.
Kathryn Talty, ASLA
What inspired you to pursue a career in landscape architecture?
Though I didn’t realize it early on, my childhood years, dependent on the facilities of the Chicago Park District, were the most influential on my career path. Who knew that a city kid with one single tree on her entire block would become a landscape architect? Hours and hours in the summer biking through McKinley Park or taking tennis lessons at Gage Park formed my deep devotion to public green space. I intended to pursue an advanced degree in architecture while I was an undergrad, but while taking site design classes in the landscape architecture department, I realized I was “of the land.”