Design & Construction Crew

Jessica Canfield | K-State Assistant Professor

Project Designer
Jessica Canfield is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Kansas State University. She focuses her practice, teaching, and research on improving the social and environmental qualities of urban public space. She is particularly interested in the concept of landscape performance and the relationship between how a landscape looks and how it functions. 

Katie Leise | K-State MLA '15 (anticipated)

Assistant Designer 

Katie Leise is a graduate student in the Landscape Architecture program at Kansas State University. Her Master’s research explores how urban parks can become more inclusive for diverse communities. She previously interned with the US National Park Service and is currently an intern for Kimley-Horn & Associates. 

Natalie Martell | K-State MLA '13

Natalie Martell is a graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Kansas State University. Her Master's research focused on providing environmental, social, and economic benefits to communities through 21st century park amenities. She previously interned with Verzone Woods Architects and is currently working at BASE Landscape Architecture.

Rod Harms | K-State BLA '82, http://www.purpleprairie.net/

Rod Harms is a K-State BLA and a 1992 department alumni honoree. He began his professional career in Dallas, focusing on community and land development planning.  In 1987 He founded the Civitas Development Group Incorporated. Since 2000, Rod has focused on building straw bale homes, and rehabilitating construction sites and native prairie landscapes near Manhattan, Kansas. 

Tom Leopold | Photographer, http://www.tomleopold.com/
Tom Leopold is a Life-Long Photographer who started with a Kodak Brownie at an early age. After a tour of duty in the US Submarine Force he earned a Bachelors degree in Photojournalism and continues to make photographs specializing in humanistic documentary photography.

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