Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Hi, my name is SuLin Kotowicz, and I’m a landscape architect in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I am deeply honored to be before you today as a candidate for President Elect of ASLA. I never expected to be considered for President as a first-generation immigrant by adoption and naturalized citizen. It was a running joke in my family as I was growing up that neither I nor my brother, both adoptees from South Korea, would be eligible to be POTUS. I am grateful to the nominating committee and Executive Committee for their belief that I am not only eligible but exhibit the qualities they expect in ASLA’s next President-Elect. 35 years ago, ASLA elected its first woman president, Darwina Neal, and I welcome the opportunity to become ASLA s first woman of color President-Elect.
ASLA will develop outreach guidelines and measurable metrics to help organizations recruit and retain Black students into landscape architecture programs and develop those students into successful professionals in landscape architecture. ASLA will provide ongoing financial, intellectual, and in-kind support to Historically Black University and College (HBCU) landscape architecture programs and work to recruit and provide ongoing support for Black landscape architecture students. ASLA will identify and engage high schools and community colleges with high concentrations of Black students to encourage joining the landscape architecture profession. Emphasis will be on schools with design-oriented curricula.
ASLA’s effort to strengthen the pipeline with diverse students begins with the youngest students. Our PreK–12 partnerships and collaborations will expand to groups that prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion, and also focus on diversity in science, technology, engineeri
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Architecture Groups Call on Biden to Revoke ‘Classical Buildings’ Executive Order
This is one of the many lame duck executive orders President Trump has issued recently.
Architecture organizations are imploring the incoming Biden administration to rescind the executive order President Trump issued on Monday that requires classical architecture to be the preferred style for federal buildings.
The directive applies to all federal courthouses, agency headquarters, federal public buildings in Washington, D.C., and all other federal public buildings that cost or are anticipated to cost over $50 million to design and build (excluding infrastructure projects and land ports of entry). A draft of the order, initially titled “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” was leaked to the publication the