Firm: Kelly Comras Landscape Architecture, Pacific Palisades, Calif.

ASLA Election Year: 2017

Category: Services

Kelly Comras, of Kelly Comras Landscape Architecture, received her nomination for 'Service' from the Southern California Chapter. As a landscape architect and member of the State Bar of California, Kelly is a dynamic force for the profession. Her engagement with neighborhood organizations, public boards and elected officials includes significant pro bono work. Her demonstration through action defines for those around her the importance of landscape architects in planning and land-use decision-making in Los Angeles. Through her roles as president of the California Garden & Landscape History Society, editor of that society's quarterly journal and a founding member of the Cultural Landscape Foundation Stewardship Council, she continues to be extremely effective in broadening the public's understanding of the core principles of landscape architecture.