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Virtual LA CES™ Education Sessions

We are pleased to bring you live virtual learning opportunities and look forward to joining you and your team. Please sign-up for our E-NEWS to be alerted when new sessions become available.

UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS:
THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION’S Landslide In Action: Alcatraz Island’s Native American Lifeways
September 25, 2025 | 12 PM EST

  

 

Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Water Quality Protection

Credits: 1.0 PDH
Speaker: Madeline Khuri | Community Educator with Huron Pines

 
Huron Pines is a conservation non-profit with a mission to conserve and enhance Northern Michigan’s natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. Through leadership as a part of the Lake Huron Forever initiative, an international network working to advance water quality and healthy, sustainable communities on both sides of Lake Huron, they aim to to support community conversation and collaboration in the design and implementation of on-the-ground work to strengthen the health and well-being of residents as well as natural resources. This course explores the role of Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) and its role in protecting water quality and enhancing community resilience. Participants will learn the benefits of incorporating GSI strategies, such as rain gardens, bioswales, and permeable pavers, into project planning. Case studies in Northeast Michigan showcase technical design and best management practices.

MADELINE KHURI
Community Educator with Huron Pines
Madeline Khuri is a Community Educator with Huron Pines where she plans and delivers educational programming that connects people to local natural resources, leads community science programs, and oversees volunteer engagement. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Natural Resource Management and a Master’s degree in Teaching in the Biological Sciences. She also helps to coordinate the Lake Huron Forever initiative which is using nature-based solutions to protect water quality for Lake Huron.
 
 

 

THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION’S Landslide In Action: Biscayne Bay “Wade-ins”

Credits: 1.25 PDH
Speakers: Loni Johnson | Multi-disciplinary visual artist
Dejha Carrington | Arts worker and co-founder of Commissioner
Athalie Edwards | Executive Director of the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust
Gregory W. Bush | Former Associate Professor of History, Director of Institute for Public History— University of Miami

On May 9, 1945, six African American men and women clad in bathing suits courageously waded into the Atlantic Ocean at the “whites-only” Baker’s Haulover Beach (now Haulover Park) northeast of downtown Miami. As a direct result of what became known as a “wade-in,” Virginia Key Beach (located on a barrier island east of the city) was dedicated on August 1, as a “colored-only” park. The creation of Virginia Key Beach was a symbolic victory for Miami’s African American community and the site immediately became a popular destination. By 1959, however, all county parks and beaches were desegregated after another peaceful protest, when a group of African American women and men visited the segregated beach at nearby Crandon Park.
 
This session will explore how artists and community members keep these stories of protest alive. The webinar will be moderated by Kate Fleming, member of TCLF’s Stewardship Council and founder and director of Bridge Initiative, a nonprofit that connects art and science, creating public art for environmental advocacy.
 
This program is associated with TCLF’s report and digital exhibition Landslide: Demonstration Grounds about public protest sites that shaped American attitudes and ideals.

 
LONI JOHNSON
Multi-disciplinary visual artist
Loni Johnson is a multi-disciplinary visual artist born and raised in Miami, FL. Through movement and ritual, Johnson creates healing spaces for Black women and explores how ancestral and historical memory informs how, when, and where we enter and claim spaces.

DEJHA CARRINGTON
Arts worker and co-founder of Commissioner
Dejha Carrington is an arts worker and co-founder of Commissioner, an art membership program that helps people collect the work of contemporary artists in their cities.

GREGORY W. BUSH
Former Associate Professor of History, Director of Institute for Public History— University of Miami
Gregory W. Bush is the Former Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami and the Director of Institute for Public History at University of Miami. He is the author White Sand Black Beach Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami’s Virginia Key (2016).
 
 

 

THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION’S Landslide In Action: Invisible Histories Along the Mississippi River

Credits: 1.25 PDH
Speakers: Angela Kyle | Urbanist and kin-keeper, and TCLF Board Member
Dr. Joy Banner, PhD | Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Descendants Project
Brian M. Davis | Executive Director of the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation
Susan Turner, FASLA | Professor emeritus of the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University

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  • Complete quiz for a LA CES™ certificate of completion after watching the course

 
The 28.5-mile stretch of fortified Mississippi Riverbanks in Louisiana’s St. John the Baptist Parish have born witness to centuries of history and three key movements of protest, including one of the largest slave revolts in America (1811). An eleven-mile stretch was under consideration for designation as a National Historic Landmark; federal officials revoked that option in February 2025. Learn more about this vital landscape and its stewards.

The session will be moderated by Angela Kyle, Urbanist and kin-keeper, and TCLF Board Member.
 
Dr. JOY BANNER, PhD
Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Descendants Project
The Descendants Project: a nonprofit foundation committed to the liberation of the Black descendant community through the dismantling of inequitable and discriminatory economic, environmental, and social systems inherent in the violent legacies of slavery.

SUSAN TURNER, FASLA
Professor emeritus, School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University
The School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University: where for 27 years she taught design and history and directed the graduate program. She is currently principal of Suzanne Turner Associates, a firm specializing in cultural resource documentation, community planning, and landscape design.

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

We are welcoming a call for submissions for our Virtual LA CES™ Education Sessions.

Do you have a project, or a topic related to Landscape Architecture you would like to present to a national audience? Transform your research, ideas, and best practices into a presentation accredited by LA CES.

Our virtual webinars draw around 200-300 attendees for each session and provide amazing opportunities to learn from experts and peers on a wide variety of topics. If there are any topics or speakers you’d like to hear more from, let us know! We look forward to hearing from you.

 
 

 

 

The logo and word marks “LA CES” and “Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System” are a collaboration of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards, Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board, and the Landscape Architecture Foundation.

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