Credits

Emergency Schoolyard Design Volunteer Program Participants

This pro bono landscape design assistance program is part of the National Initiative’s Outdoor Infrastructure Working Group, and is organized by Claire Latané, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP. It is successful because of the dedicated volunteers from around the country, listed alphabetically below, who participated as founding members, regional co-leaders and ongoing volunteers. These incredible individuals have been organizing other volunteers and walking with schools as they consider outdoor learning since June 2020, and many have remained active through the present.

The National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all of the organizations and individuals who are collaborating to make this Initiative possible, including the dozens of individual design volunteers not listed here, who have assisted one or more schools. Thank you for your contributions and the direct impact you have made!

National Leadership for the Emergency Schoolyard Design Volunteer Program

  • Founder and Organizer — Claire Latané, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP, CalPoly Pomona

  • National Team Leader — Nancy Striniste, MLD, EarlySpace, LLC

  • National Team Leader — Pamela Brief, PLA, ASLA, Pamela Studios

  • Program Manager — Lauren McKenna, MLA, Green Schoolyards America

  • Advisors — Rennie Tang, Cal Poly Pomona and Jean Yang, Studio-MLA

 

Regional Co-Leaders

  • Pamela Brief, PLA, ASLA, Pamela Studios

  • Elizabeth Cadwell, MLA

  • Anna Harrison, ASID, LEED, AP, ALEP, Aedis Architects

  • Joan Honeyman, RLA, ASLA, Jordan Honeyman Landscape Architecture

  • Yoshihiko Kubota, RLA, SITES AP, Bradley Site Design

  • Michelle Mathis RLA, Learning Landscapes Design, LLC

  • Jennifer L. Nitzky, RLA, ASLA, ISA Certified Arborist, Studio HIP

  • Katie Summers, MLA, TBG Partners

  • Jane Tesner Kleiner, RLA, nature+play designs

  • Anna Wik, RLA, ASLA, SITES AP

Regional Advisors

  • Stephen Busch, Busch Landscape Architecture

  • Susan Cita, PLA, LEED AP, ISA Certified Arborist, TBG Partners

  • Lauren Freels, RLA, ASLA, Bay Tree Design

  • Adriana Garcia, SALT LA

  • Adrianne Kartachak, MLA, TBG Partners

  • Jan Satterthwaite, ASLA, LEED AP, Vireo Design Studio, LLC

  • Meagan Yellott, MLA, BrightView

Emergency Schoolyard Design Volunteer Program Participants

Below are volunteers who were active in this program between June 2020 and summer 2021. Many worked with a school and many were active in other ways with the program.

*Denotes volunteers who worked directly with a school.

  • Jodi Lane, Fruitful Commons*

  • Jolie Leung, Artemis Landscape Architects*

  • Rachel Loeffler, RLA, ASLA, Berkshire Design Group*

  • Kevin McCalla, RossTarrant Architects*

  • Maddy McKee, Joni L. Janecki & Associates, Inc.*

  • Lauren McKenna, MLA*

  • Gayatri Medury, AIA, Artik Art & Architecture*

  • Cuiyan Mei, MLA, Duane Border Design*

  • Adriane Morabito

  • Sandra Nam Cioffi, PLA, Ink Landscape Architects, PLLC*

  • Tricia O’Connell, Sanctuary Landscape Architecture

  • Katrina Ortiz, MLA, PLAT Studio*

  • Katherine Packer

  • Erin Percevault, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects*

  • Lilia Pharazyn*

  • Erik Plato, ANLA Associates, Inc.*

  • Stacie Preven, Land Images*

  • Erica Quigley, MLA, Gardens For Life, LLC*

  • Svetlana Ragulina, Prospect Park Alliance*

  • Afrouz Rahmati, MLA*

  • Brittney Seman, MLA

  • Carl Smith, PhD, University of Arkansas and Carl Smith Design

  • Dina Sorensen, AIA-CAE, d.studio*

  • Jayne Spector, LLA, LEED AP, Langan*

  • Lisa Strong, MLA, Lisa Strong Landscape Design*

  • Anh-Thy Tobin, LPA, Inc.*

  • JoAnn Trach Tongson, Mahan Rykiel*

  • Emily Yatron*

  • Eve Anderson, MLA, Natural Learning Initiative*

  • Mila Antova, PLA, Moody Graham*

  • Phil Barlow, PLA, AICP, LEED AP, TO Design*

  • Sarah Bartosh, MLA, AHBL*

  • Selene Basile, MLA*

  • Anne Berman, MLA, ASLA*

  • Sarah Bolivar, MLA, AECOM*

  • Kelle Brooks, RA, LEED AP, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo*

  • Siobhan Burke, AIA, LEED AP, Lyric Design and Planning*

  • Sancho Cagulada, MLA*

  • Rex Cayabyab, SoCal ASLA

  • Clara Cheeves, MUD*

  • Cecilia Cho

  • Valerie Clarke, MLA, SWA Group

  • Brennan Cox, AIA, Groundworks Office*

  • Lauren Ford, Cooper Carry*

  • Lauren Freels, RLA, ASLA, BAY TREE DESIGN*

  • Zara Gomez

  • Lisa Howard, RLA, ASLA, CPSI, BAY TREE DESIGN

  • Cindi Hron, MFA, MLA, Susquehanna Greenway Partnership*

  • Jeff Hutchins, PLA, Albert A. Webb Associates*

  • Joseph Hutson, JH Garden Designs, LLC*

  • Lauren Iversen, MLA*

  • Harriett Jameson Brooks, Jameson Brooks Outdoors*

  • Joni Janecki, ASLA, Joni L. Janecki & Associates, Inc.*

  • Staci Jasin, Insitu Schools*

  • Elena Juodisius, MLA*

Student Emergency Schoolyard Design Volunteer Program Participants

Thank you to the many student volunteers who worked with schools on a team or through their educational institution to create outdoor learning diagrams that schools can use to re-imagine their campuses!

  • Toby Lauer

  • Linnea Laux, University of Virginia

  • Rebecca Lim, UCLA Extension

  • Abigail Long, Temple University

  • Amy Matusheshki

  • Alyssa Moffitt, UCLA Extension

  • Tyler Naumann, Cal Poly SLO

  • Xiaoxuan Ren, University of Virginia

  • Mehul Sathya Narayan, Cal Poly SLO

  • Nehansh Saxena, Cal Poly SLO

  • Karen Stasevich, UCLA Extension

  • Ana Stolle

  • Can Sun, University of Pennsylvania

  • Nola Talmage, UCLA Extension

  • Jacqueline Wee, UCLA Extension

  • Tonghua Wu

  • Selyin Yi Ding

  • Katherine Young, Cal Poly SLO

  • Alice Bell, University of Pennsylvania

  • Kira Becker, UCLA Extension

  • Sidney Buckingham, Temple University

  • Carolina Cassel Dürr, University of Delaware

  • Tracie Chazares, Cal Poly Pomona

  • Selina Cheah

  • Hannah Cho, Cal Poly SLO

  • Austin duPlanti

  • Rachael Dwork, UCLA Extension

  • Margaux Elliot, Cal Poly SLO

  • Adrienne Emmerich

  • Fettke von Koeckritz

  • Daniel Flinchbaugh

  • Caz Gagne

  • Timothy Hayward, UCLA Extension

  • Jingyi Hu, University of Virginia

  • Cecelia Huang, UC Berkeley

  • Camille Jackson, Merritt College

  • Serah Kallerackal, Cal Poly SLO

National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative

The National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative supports schools and districts around the country in their efforts to reopen safely and equitably using outdoor spaces as strategic, cost-effective solutions to increase physical distancing capacity onsite and provide access to abundant fresh air. The Initiative seeks to equitably improve learning, mental and physical health, and happiness for children and adults using an affordable, time-tested outdoor approach to keeping schools open during a pandemic.

The National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative was co-founded in May 2020 by Green Schoolyards America, The Lawrence Hall of Science, San Mateo County Office of Education, and Ten Strands. It has now grown to include more than 20 other partner organizations that are collaborating to build a national movement, hundreds of participating volunteers, and foundation partners.