ASLA’s Women in Landscape Architecture Professional Practice Network (WILA PPN) is sharing the next set of profiles of women in the profession (see last week’s 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 Jennifer Cooper, ASLA, Anne Chen, ASLA, and Meghan Mick, ASLA.
Jennifer Cooper, ASLA
What inspired you to pursue a career in landscape architecture?
My father was a stained glass artist who restored the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, IL, so I grew up running around these interesting buildings. He was always either in his workshop or sketching new ideas in his little yellow notepad. My mom was a homemaker with a real talent for oil painting. So art was always in the air in our house. Growing up in a very green Chicago suburb, I always loved nature, so combining the two was a natural fit for landscape architecture.