Affiliate & Networking Event

Parks & Recreation PPN Meeting

Monday, October 7, 2024

10:00am – 10:45am ET

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, PPN Forum (alcove space across from Room 143)

PPN Leader(s)

Steph Thisius-Sanders, ASLA, PLA

Planning & Construction Director
North of the River Recreation and Park District
Bakersfield, California
Bronwen Mastro, ASLA, LEED BD+C (she/her/hers)

Landscape Architect
Bend Park and Recreation District
Bend, Oregon
Dennis E. Bryers, FASLA, CLARB, PLA

Landscape Architect - Park & Recreation Planner
Park Planning Division - Omaha Parks, Recreation & Public Property Department
Omaha, Nebraska
Hans Klein-Hewett, ASLA, PLA (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
Lauren E. Schmitt, ASLA, AICP

Landscape Architect
Independent
Portland, Oregon

Join the Parks & Recreation Professional Practice Network (PPN) for an engaging opportunity to meet and network with other PPN members. The meeting will be conversation-focused, allowing for peer-to-peer learning and knowledge-sharing through a facilitated discussion focused on the public sector. Delve into topics such as funding improvements, operations & maintenance, regulations that affect facility designs for parks & recreation and public sector practitioner challenges, among many others that have enlightened our monthly meetings. Attendees will be encouraged to share ideas and best practices from their agencies and the top issues they’re encountering working in and with the public sector.