Institution: George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
ASLA Chapter: Potomac Chapter.
Category: Service

Throughout her career Adele Ashkar has provided distinguished service to landscape architecture. As a pioneering educator she seizes opportunities to expand the boundaries of traditional practice and teaching. An innovative educator and mentor, she promotes landscape architecture to interdisciplinary and career-changing students. By engaging in visible pro bono projects she inspires professional and citizen advocates for sustainable design so that they reach out to celebrate the value of the profession to other public leaders. She has sustained an unflagging attitude of advocacy for landscape architecture in local, regional, national and international venues. Her philosophy"?uthat reaching stakeholders at the grassroots level is critical to the support of new public policy"?uwill help shape our landscapes for future generations.