Landscape Architecture Executive
Walt Disney Imagineering
Glendale, California
Jennifer has over twenty years of project experience planning, designing, and building theme parks for Walt Disney Imagineering. She started her journey with Imagineering by working on several landscape design projects for Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida. She has been the principal landscape architect for Fantasyland at Hong Kong Disneyland, Cars Land at Disney California Adventure, Fantasyland at Shanghai Disneyland, and the newly opened Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at both Disneyland in California and Disney’s Hollywood Studios Park in Florida. Her responsibilities typically include master planning for on- and off-stage facilities and functions, collaboration with Creative team to develop the conceptual site plan, partnering with Show and Ride to integrate complex systems, coordination with facilities architecture and engineering disciplines, design development and translation of creative concepts to construction documentation, planting design in support of storytelling/placemaking goals, participation in estimate reviews and value engineering, strategic planning for construction activity, field observation and art direction.
She currently has a functional leadership role for the Landscape Architecture Studio within the Design + Planning Studio. She provides support and guidance to the twenty-two staff landscape architects/designers and additional consultants working on a global menu of theme park and resort developments.
Before joining Imagineering, Jennifer was a job captain and project architect for Miralles Associates. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Applied Mathematics from the University of California Berkeley and a Certificate in Landscape Architecture from the University of California Irvine extension program. Jennifer is also a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
9:00am – 12:00pm CT