Susannah Drake

Firm: dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture pllc, Brooklyn
Education: BA, Dartmouth; MArch and MLA, Harvard GSD
ASLA Chapter: New York
Category: Leadership/Management

Susannah Drake's vision for the past 20 years has been for cities and communities to address solutions to climate change through design. She is a trustee of the Van Alen Institute, former president and trustee of the New York Chapter of the ASLA, urban design professor at Cooper Union and associate of the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design. Her advisory appointments to New York City task forces have help spur changes to waterfront zoning, the development of the city's new green infrastructure standards, and the fourth regional plan of the N.Y./N.J./Conn. metro area.

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