For more information on the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, please contact any one of the current Officers.

President
Cari Goetcheus 
cgoetch@clemson.edu


Vice-President
John E. Zvonar 
john.zvonar@pwgsc.gc.ca


Treasurer
USA: Laura Knott
lknott@johnmilnerassociates.com

Canada: Wendy Shearer
Wshearer@on.aibn.com

Secretary
Andrea Lucas
andrea@tree-haus.com


For more information on becoming a member please contact the Alliance's Membership Coordinator

Sherda Williams
Sherda_Williams@nps.gov


New Board Members

Jane Cassady
Jane Cassady is the manager of the Management and Information Unit in the Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. She has a Masters Degree in Historic Preservation from the University of Georgia’s School of Environmental Design.  Her thesis explored the tools and strategies to protect cultural landscapes, focusing on conservation easements.

Susan Hitchcock
Susan Hitchcock is a historical landscape architect for the National Park Service’s Cultural Landscapes Program. She is a 1997 graduate of the University of Georgia’s School of Environmental Design, where she studied both landscape architecture and historic preservation, with an emphasis on landscape preservation. Her thesis was a study of the residential design work of Hubert B. Owens, the founder of the School of Environmental Design. Special areas of interest are southern garden history and Colonial Revival gardens. She is a founding member of the Georgia Historic Landscape Initiative and serves on the Acquisitions Committee of the Cherokee Garden Library, the Advisory Committee for the Garden Club of Georgia’s Historic House and Garden Pilgrimage and Historic Landscape and Garden Grant, the Founders Garden Board, and the Eatonton Georgia Historic Preservation Commission.


Achim Jankowski
Recently retired from Public Works and Government Services Canada, Achim Jankowski’s public service spanned close to 25 years.  In 1982 Achim worked as a Park Landscape Architect in Gros Morne National Park on the west coast of Newfoundland, and then had a short term hiatus in private practice in Ottawa.  He has been privileged to work with many fine people over the years, and in many interesting and wonderful places of national historic significance and natural beauty.

Achim will continue his membership in the Alliance because it is a diverse and wonderful group, and he wants to remain involved in the conservation of historic landscapes.  As well, he has been accepted to join the Education Committee, and work with Anne Hoover and Hugh Miller, in furthering our outreach to students in the preservation field of studies.


Laura Knott
Laura Knott is a licensed landscape architect in both Texas and Virginia. She received her Master of Science in Historic Preservation degree from the University of Texas in 2004 and her MLA from Louisiana State University in 1991. The study and preservation of historic landscapes is Ms. Knott’s principal area of concentration.  After graduation in 2004, she spent a semester teaching cultural landscape preservation, history and theory of landscape architecture, and landscape architecture technology at the University of Texas.  Prior to entering graduate school for the second time, she spent twelve years practicing in Texas and Maryland, specializing in the design and planning of parks and other public landscapes. In September 2005, Ms. Knott joined John Milner Associates, Inc., as a project manager; she is now serving as Principal Landscape Architect and Senior Associate for the firm, and manages JMA’s Charlottesville office.

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