Albert Hinckley
Warrenton, Virginia

Mr. Hinckley attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and holds a Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Architecture from M.I.T. He was the principal in solely owned firm of Albert P. Hinckley, Jr. AIA from 1966-96, when the firm became a partnership, Hinckley, Shepherd, Norden, PLC. His work has included public schools and community colleges in New York, residential work in Boston and public and private housing in Israel. The firm has done work in the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island and Louisiana. Albert served as project architect for the Steamboat Mississippi Queen and is a Member of the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Covent Garden and the Casa del Herrero Foundation of Santa Barbara, CA.

Arleyn Levee
Belmont, Massachusetts

Ms. Levee received degrees from Wellesley College, Harvard University, and the Radcliffe Seminars Program in Landscape Design. She maintains a practice both in consulting for historical landscape projects, particularly those involving the designs of the Olmsted firm, and in landscape design, primarily for private residential projects. Since l982 she has served in various capacities for the National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP), most recently as Co-Chair. A founding member of the Massachusetts Association for Olmsted Parks (MAOP), she now serves on the Board of Directors for Historic Massachusetts. She is an Advisory Trustee for the Maine Olmsted Alliance for Parks and Landscapes, has served as an advisor to the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission's Green Ribbon Commission, and currently sits on the Landscape Council for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Ms. Levee lectures frequently on landscape history, research, preservation, and advocacy, and has advised on several exhibits of Olmsted related works. She coordinated research and production for The Master List of Design Projects of The Olmsted Firm, l857-l950, published by NAOP, and is currently working with Dr. Charles E. Beveridge and the Olmsted National Historic Site on the project to expand this material into an online data base. She is the author of articles about the Olmsted firm and their significant design projects, particularly for residential communities across the country. She wrote the opening chapter, "The American Park Movement" for Bold Vision: The Development of the Parks of Portland Maine, (1999). Additionally, she is currently preparing a critical biography of the life and work of John Charles Olmsted, stepson of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Susan Keeton
Houston, Texas

Susan Keeton is a lifelong Houstonian. She graduated from Smith College in 1963. As a member of the River Oaks Garden Club, she has been involved in all aspects of the club's supervision of the gardens created at Bayou Bend by Ima Hogg. Inspired by the 1992 NPS Historic Landscape Maintenance Workshop she served on the committee that recommended a Master Plan for the restoration of the gardens and then chaired the committee that oversaw the implementation of the Plan developed by Suzanne Turner and Jon Emerson. Her work at Bayou Bend fostered involvement with other organizations that focus on historic landscape issues in Houston. She is a board member of The Friends of Hermann Park and served on the committee that selected Laurie Olin to produce a comprehensive plan for the park in 1995. In 2001 as a board member of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership she served on the search committee that chose The Thompson Group of Boston to develop a master plan for the bayou. She has been a lecturer in landscape history for Rice University's School of Continuing Studies. In 2007 she was appointed Chair of the Hermann Park Garden Center Advisory Board by Mayor Bill White.

Brice Maryman ASLA
Seattle, Washington

Born and raised outside of Washington DC, Brice Maryman received his BA in English literature at Saint Mary's College of Maryland before conducting his master's work in landscape architecture at the University of Washington with a Certificate in Historic Preservation and Planning. He and his wife Bridgette live in Seattle, where he is a landscape architect at SvR Design Company which has an integrated approach that prioritizes environmentally responsible design and planning. A University of Washington lecturer since 2003, Brice co-authored the Seattle Landmarks nomination for Lawrence Halprin and Angela Danadjieva's Freeway Park. In 2006 he co-directed Open Space Seattle 2100 as an effort to build on the city's historic Olmsted legacy.

website: SvR Design Company

Dennis C. McGlade
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dennis has been a Principal with OLIN since 1986 and was named President in 2005. His recent projects include the J. Paul Getty Center’s Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden in Los Angeles; Camana Bay in the Cayman Islands; Carneros Inn in Napa, California; and Midway Plaisance Master Plan and Winter Garden in Chicago. His interest in landscape studies and practice originally grew out of his experiences gardening at his family’s home in Chicago and their summer home in the country. He earned degrees in landscape architecture from the University of Illinois, studying with Donald Walker and Terry Harkness, and the University of Pennsylvania, as a student of Ian McHarg. He worked in Philadelphia at the offices of Vincent G. Kling and Partners, and Wallace, McHarg, Roberts and Todd prior to joining Hanna/Olin in 1978. Dennis regularly teaches the Planting Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania, lectures nationally, and writes on topics of planting design and technology. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and an Honorary Fellow of the Kew Guild, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.

website: Olin Partnership

Peter R. McQuillan
New York, New York

Mr. McQuillan, a retired Sergeant Special Assignment with the New York City Police Department, received his B.A. in Public Administration from John Jay College. After a 20 year career with the NYPD, where he served in numerous positions at police headquarters as well as representing the NYPD as the Special Assistant to the Commissioner of the Office of Emergency Management during the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Peter has devoted himself to the study and patronage of landscape architecture and garden design. An avid gardener from childhood, he is a member of the Corporation of the New York Botanical Garden as well as the Horticultural Committee, and regularly volunteers at the NYBG for the Director of Curators and Plant Records. Peter is a member of the Terra Firma Society of the Westchester Land Trust, the Society of Fellows of the Garden Conservancy as well as a major donor to the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal Defense Fund, Empire State Pride Agenda, and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. With his partner Adam R. Rose, Peter resides on a 56 acre estate in Northern Westchester, New York complete with a 2700 square foot open roof production greenhouse and an 8,000 square foot contemporary garden. Peter supervises all landscape and horticultural activity on the property.

Jo Ann Nathan
Chicago, Illinois

Ms. Nathan received a degree in education from the University of Michigan and an AS in landscape design and ornamental horticulture. As a landscape historian, Ms. Nathan has conducted research studies for historic parks in the park districts of Chicago and Highland Park, Illinois, and for numerous private clients. Moreover, she has many articles, lectures, and videos about Midwestern landscape heritage to her credit. She also served as director of the Jens Jensen Legacy Project for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Ms. Nathan's board affiliations include the Board of Visitors - School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan; Parkways Foundation, Chicago; Facing History and Ourselves, national board; and the Sculpture and Garden Committee, Lincoln Park Zoo.

Patricia O'Donnell FASLA, AICP, RLA
Charlotte, Vermont,

Heritage Landscapes, Preservation Landscape Architects & Planners, founded by O’Donnell in 1987 focuses exclusively on the preservation of cultural landscapes through planning, implementation and management undertakings and currently has offices in Charlotte VT and Norwalk CT. She and her Heritage Landscapes team have collaborated with the PPC on some 25 planning and implementation projects over the past 10 years. Current projects are focusing, in part, on sustainability and best practices application to historic landscapes. O'Donnell received two master's degree in landscape architecture and urban planning and is licensed in fourteen states. She serves as the International Federation of Landscape Architects Cultural Landscapes Committee (IFLA CLC) Global Chair, encouraging communication among landscape architects world-wide to enhance recognition and expertise. She is an active ICOMOS expert member and participant in the World Heritage process. A global traveler, she appreciates the vast diversity of cultural landscapes that express the unique interactions of people and places and enjoys shaping her shared cultural landscape with her husband, Jim Donovan, at Broad Reach Farm in Vermont.

website: Heritage Landscapes