2025 Fellows: Elaine Kearney, FASLA, Texas Chapter

TBG Partners, San Antonio, TX
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Elaine Kearney is a driving force in landscape architecture, influencing its visibility, practice, and trajectory nationally, regionally, and locally with a particular commitment to advancing equity within the profession. Nationally, Elaine leads through her participation on the board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation. As Vice President of Development, she has been instrumental in raising funds to support the foundation's significant research, leadership, and scholarship programs, including over $2.5M for the establishment of the IGNITE program for minority students. In private practice, Elaine is the sole female member of the Board of Directors of TBG Partners, the largest landscape architecture firm in Texas, where she has been a vocal advocate for implementing leadership opportunities and pay-equity policies to measure and address racial and gender parity. As managing principal of TBG's San Antonio office since 2017, she has created a thriving practice that champions economically disadvantaged and historically underserved neighborhoods. Elaine also serves in leadership positions on notable nonprofit organizations and boards, serving, for example, as Vice President of the San Antonio Botanical Garden, where she guided the development of a visionary new 10-year master plan that emphasizes conservation of the unique flora of South Texas, and serving as a citizen adviser for the Linear Creekway Parks Advisory Board, which provides input on a network of over 100 miles of trail and growing. In recognition of her contributions, Elaine was awarded the 2022 Texas ASLA Service Award. An exceptional leader, her holistic approach is a model process for transformational development of the public realm through strong advocacy for public funding, political support, and public/private stakeholder collaboration.