April Westcott, FASLA

 
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
It comes as no surprise that April Westcott received the 2019 National ASLA Outstanding Service Award because service is at the center of everything she does. At ASLA, as chair of the National Member Services Committee, she initiated the creation of an array of resources that transformed onboarding processes for new members and chapter leaders. In Indiana, she initiated "Landscape Architecture Day" and "World Landscape Architecture Month," and then prodded other cities and states to follow suit, giving landscape architecture a vibrant public presence. In her chapter leadership roles, April made dramatic improvements to internal and external communications. She got INASLA involved with Indiana's Earth Day celebrations. She finds creative ways to partner with major community organizations, seizing opportunities to launch public discussions and engaging activities focused on the work of landscape architects, and she has educated hundreds of children and teenagers about the profession and mentored dozens of landscape architecture majors at Purdue and Ball State universities. April doesn't know how to be a bystander or to simply "show up" to events. She is a doer and has selflessly devoted herself to the organization and the profession through more than a decade of intense service, acting as the bridge between the profession and the public, and helping to ensure the vitality and long-term health and wellbeing of the Society.


Indiana Chapter
Category: Service