Associate Professor
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
Julie Stevens is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, where she has developed an innovative multi-year partnership with the Iowa Department of Corrections to create therapeutic environments for prisons. The team of Iowa State students, prison staff and incarcerated individuals at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women received an Award of Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2015 and 2018. Professor Stevens is currently developing a trauma-informed design program focused on underserved youth in a residential treatment program.
SAT-B03: Healing on the Inside: The Benefits of Nature Interactions within Carceral Environments
Saturday, October 28, 2023
2:00pm – 3:15pm CT