Kas Kinkead, FASLA
Category: Service
Cascade Design Collaborative, Seattle, Washington

Kas Kinkead, of Cascade Design Collaborative, received her nomination, in Service, from the Washington Chapter. Kinkead is a recognized leader in Seattle and at the state and national levels, elevating her profession in the eyes of decision makers when she advocates for sustainable building, green infrastructure and superlative public K-12 educational facilities. She is a member and twice chair of Washington State's Technical Advisory Committee on publicly funded K-12 schools. With her guidance, the state passed both a funding-eligibility law for outdoor classrooms and a sustainable design protocol for new schools that includes stormwater and low-impact development strategies. Kinkead's talent for persuasion grows from her remarkable ability to personalize projects and her encyclopedic understanding of K-12 educational goals, community values and age-appropriate connections to landscape. She is a long-time advocate for women in the design professions and has been a potent champion of practice licensure for landscape architects, making her an inspiration to her colleagues and a role model of effective leadership.