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Jennifer Dowdell, ASLA, is the Practice Lead in Landscape Ecology, Planning and Design at Biohabitats Inc., based in the Chesapeake Bay bioregional office in Baltimore, MD. For over 20 years she has applied principles of ecology, landscape architecture, conservation planning, and living infrastructure to projects ranging from greenways to state parks, college campuses, and citywide ecological networks. Her work merges landscape ecology, resilience strategies, and environmental justice in site design and planning. After receiving a BA in History and Creative Nonfiction Writing from Loyola University Maryland, she earned her Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources & Environment (now SEAS), where she worked with Joan Nassauer in her Landscape Ecology, Perception, and Design Lab. Jennifer’s writing has been published in the Wilson Quarterly, Landscape Architecture Magazine, PLACES Journal, theEarthIssue #4, The Nature of Cities blog, and the e-quarterly Leaf Litter, and the book The Landscape Approach: From Local Communities to Territorial Systems. Jennifer is the lead author of the Biodiversity chapter of the ASLA Climate and Biodiversity Action Plan: Landscape Architecture 2040. Her experience in writing and advocacy informs her work facilitating dialogue about the social and ecological narratives that engage nature in design. 

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