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.
Ken Byrne
Humanities; Academic Coordination
Anne Capra
Planning
Mohamad Chakaki
Urban Ecology; Community Engagement
Kate Cholakis
Landscape Planning and Design; Digital Design; Admissio...
Kim Erslev
Landscape Design; Site Engineering; Graphics
Sebastian Gutwein
Digital Design; Surveying
CJ Lammers
Planning
Bill Lattrell
Ecology
Laura Machala
Planning
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.
Recent speakers include the following:
Carolina Aragon
- Artist and Assistant Professor, UMass Amherst
Jesse Bellemere
- Plant Ecologist, Smith College
Tom Benjamin
- Landscape Architect and Owner, Wellnesscapes
Myrna Breitbart
- Professor Emerita of Geography and Urban Studies, Hampshire College
David Buckley Borden
Miles Connors ’10
- Director, Parterre Ecological Services
Walter Cudnohufsky
- Founder of the Conway School and owner, Walter Cudnohufsky Associates
Seana Cullinan ’12
- Ecological designer and founder of Larkspur Design
Brian Donahue
- Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
Abrah Dresdale ’10
Peter Flinker
Bonita Eloise Ford
- Permaculture designer and author, Embers of Hope: Embracing Life in an Age of Ecological Destruction and Climate Chaos
Breyonne Golding ’16
- City Planner, Urban Designer, and Community Developer; Principal and Founder, Mosaic Design Studio
Steven Handel
- Restoration Ecologist and Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design
Nancy J. Hayden
- Ecologist, artist, farmer, and author, Farming on the Wild Side
David Jacke ’84
- Permaculture designer and author, Edible Forest Gardens
Dr. Theodore (Ted) Jojola
- Distinguished professor and regents’ professor in the community & regional planning program, School of Architecture + Planning, University of New Mexico
Jesse Keenan
- Associate Professor and social scientist, School of Architecture at Tulane University
Liz Kelly ’14
- Project Planner and ecological designer, Resilience Planning & Design LLC
Sarah K. Khan
Kate Kennen
- Landscape architect and Owner of Offshoots, Inc., author of Phyto
CJ Lammers
- Former Master Environmental Planner, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Abra Lee
- Horticulturist, founder of Conquer the Soil, and author, Conquer the Soil: Black America and the Untold Stories of Our Country’s Gardeners, Farmers, and Growers
Rachel Loeffler
- Landscape Architect, Berkshire Design Group
Daphne Lundi
- Deputy Director for Social Resiliency, NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate Resiliency
Dr. Atyia Martin
- CEO & Founder of All Aces Inc.
Dr. Desiree Narango
- Ecologist and conservation research fellow
Amy Nyman ’13
- Owner of Ruby Leaf Design, LLC, and Gardener with Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Jono Neiger ’03
- Designer and Principal, Regenerative Design Group
Sue Reed ’87
- Landscape architect and author, Energy-Wise Landscape Design and Climate-Wise Landscaping
Connor Stedman
- Field Ecologist and Agroforestry/Ecology Specialist
Lauren Stimson
- Landscape Architect and Principal, Stimson Landscape Architects
Eric Toensmeier
- Author of The Carbon Farming Solution, Perennial Vegetables, Paradise Lot, and Edible Forest Gardens
Charlie Tracy
- Landscape Architect, National Park Service
Conrad Vispo and Claudia Knab-Vispo
- Wildlife Ecologists with Hawthorne Valley Farm
Greg Watson
- Director of Policy and Systems Design, the Schumacher Center
Claudia West
- Landscape Architect, Principal of Phyto Studio, and author, Planting in a Post-Wild World
Erica Wheeler
Lauren Wheeler ’03
- Founder and designer, Natural Resources Design
Bob Wilber
- Director of Land Conservation, Mass Audubon
Seth Wilkinson ’99
- Restoration Ecologist, Founder and President of Wilkinson Ecological Design
Tobias Wolf
- Landscape Architect and Owner, Wolf Landscape Architecture
Julie Wormser
- Deputy Director, Mystic River Watershed Association
Emily Wright
- Landscape Architect and Principal, Wright Ostermier Landscape Architects
See the full Faculty + Staff Directory, or contact us directly with any inquiries.