Susannah Ross, ASLA, LEED AP

Susannah is a Director and Landscape Architect at Agency Landscape + Planning. She has extensive experience managing complex urban landscape design and construction across the United States. She is passionate about the design of public open spaces in urban settings. She enjoys exploring the potential of landscape design to enrich the daily life, health and well-being of city dwellers and urban ecology, and to shape the core identity of a city. She welcomes the challenge of designing to meet a diverse set of interests in a complex physical context.

Susannah has served as the project manager for both the master plan and the multi-phase implementation of award winning Sarasota Bay Park, where she is currently coordinating a complex waterfront design and leads a team of in-house planners and landscape architects and a team of sub-consultants ranging from architects to engineers. Other notable works include the renovation of Ithaca Commons, Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park, and development of a master plan for Nashville’s Wharf Park.

Prior to joining Agency, Susannah was a Senior Associate with Sasaki, where she worked for 16 years. Prior to that she was a software user interface designer. Susannah holds a master of landscape architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and a bachelor of arts cum laude in Anthropology from Harvard University.