Institution: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
ASLA Chapter: New York Upstate
Category: Knowledge

Paula Horrigan moves place-making and community-engaged design to the forefront of landscape architecture education, research and practice. Her profound commitment is to the public purposes of landscape architecture and higher education. She is a recognized leader in strengthening the rigor and value of community engagement and service to today's design education, research and practice. She led the Erasing Boundaries Project and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture's service learning and community engagement track. She is a co-author of the recently published Community Matters: Service-Learning in Engaged Design and Planning. Horrigan has inspired hundreds of students to forge professional careers that empower communities with critical needs so those communities can actualize their own futures. Throughout her career, she has advocated the relevance of community-engaged design education, research and practice within landscape architecture's ever-evolving sphere of influence.