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Introducing the 2024-2025 Leadership Taking the Reins After L.A. Fires by Keziah Olsen, LASN
The ASLA Southern California Chapter has new leadership, and their mettle is being tested in a very real way.Meet Scott Rice, PLA: President at Community Works Design Group (CWDG) and the new president of the SoCal Chapter. Rice has been working in the world of landscape architecture for 26 years, starting in high school when he worked under a landscape contractor and aspiring Landscape Architect at San Bernardino Golf Club. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from California State Polytechnic University - Pomona in 2002, he began working for CWDG and became a licensed Landscape Architect (PLA) in the state of California in 2005. In 2009, he took a two-year hiatus to apply his landscape architectural experience to the world of skateparks, then rejoined CWDG in 2011, where he has been working since. In addition to excelling in park and sport facility design, Rice is a Certified Access Specialist (CASp) who is contracted by the City of Los Angeles Department on Disability to assess accessibility for the Recreation & Parks (RAP), Emergency Management Department (EMD), the L.A. Fire Department (LAFD), and several other departments.In an exclusive interview with LASN, Rice recalled how he was drawn into the ASLA community during the COVID-19 pandemic, when he was feeling isolated from his peers both physically and relationally. He remembers that his first ASLA SoCal chapter meeting was over Zoom. Before Rice knew it, he was drawn in to serve as the Vice President of Sponsorship, which he did for two terms. Then, he was chosen as president-elect in 2023 and is now stepping into the long-anticipated role of president.
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