Firm: Scape/Landscape Architecture, NYC
ASLA Chapter: New York
Category: Service

Elena Brescia has volunteered for ASLA and worked pro-bono for interdisciplinary organizations continuously for 15 years. She worked on the New York Chapter ASLA Executive Committee for six years and, concurrently, represented the chapter on the interdisciplinary design coalition Executive Committee of the New York New Visions for Rebuilding Lower Manhattan. She was on the New York State Council of Landscape Architects, and has contributed for the past nine years within New York's interdisciplinary arts and design coalition, the Fine Arts Federation of New York, as a director, an officer and its president. She engages many influential groups, which reflects positively on all landscape architects as she increases recognition for the profession in the city and among affiliated designers.