Faculty
A community of practice
Conway's faculty and visiting instructors are experienced teachers and professional designers and planners at the forefront of their fields.
Mollie Babize
Planning & Design
Ken Byrne
Humanities; Academic Coordination
Anne Capra
Planning
Kate Cholakis
Landscape Planning and Design; Digital Design; Admissio...
Kim Erslev
Landscape Design; Site Engineering; Graphics
Sebastian Gutwein
Digital Design; Surveying
Bill Lattrell
Ecology
Laura Marx
Ecology
Glenn Motzkin
Ecology
Visiting Speakers
Conway invites landscape designers, planners, educators, ecologists, and other professionals to lecture at the school, work with students in studio, or hold a field session. While the faculty schedule many speakers on an annual or biennial basis, the school also brings in new speakers.
Previous speakers include the following:
Sue Reed ’87
- Landscape architect and author, Energy-Wise Landscape Design and Climate-Wise Landscaping
Walter Cudnohufsky
- Founder of the Conway School and owner, Walter Cudnohufsky Associates
Kate Kennen
- Landscape architect and Owner of Offshoots, Inc., author of Phyto
Seth Wilkinson ’99
- Restoration Ecologist, Founder and President of Wilkinson Ecological
Lauren Stimson
- Landscape Architect and Principal, Stimson Landscape Architects
Jono Neiger ’03
- Designer and Principal, Regenerative Design Group
Jesse Bellemere
- Plant Ecologist, Smith College
Rachel Loeffler
- Landscape Architect, Berkshire Design Group
David Jacke ’84
- Permaculture designer and author, Edible Forest Gardens
Steven Handel
- Restoration Ecologist and Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design
Tobias Wolf
- Landscape Architect and Owner, Wolf Landscape Architecture
Abrah Dresdale ’10
Connor Stedman
- Field Ecologist and Agroforestry/Ecology Specialist
Claudia West
- Landscape Architect, Principal of Phyto Studio, and author, Planting in a Post-Wild World
Tom Benjamin
- Landscape Architect and Owner, Wellnesscapes
CJ Lammers
- Former Master Environmental Planner, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Greg Watson
- Director of Policy and Systems Design, the Schumacher Center
Erica Wheeler
Sarah K. Khan
Brian Donahue
- Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
Myrna Breitbart
- Professor Emerita of Geography and Urban Studies, Hampshire College
Charlie Tracy
- Landscape Architect, National Park Service
David Buckley Borden
Conrad Vispo and Claudia Knab-Vispo
- Wildlife Ecologists with Hawthorne Valley Farm
Emily Wright
- Landscape Architect and Principal, Wright Ostermier Landscape Architects
Julie Wormser
- Deputy Director, Mystic River Watershed Association
Peter Flinker
See the full Faculty + Staff Directory, or contact us directly with any inquiries.