Associate Professor / Director, Landscape Architecture + Urbanism
University of Southern California (USC)
Los Angeles, California
Alison B. Hirsch, PhD, FAAR, is Associate Professor in the USC School of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture+Urbanism. At USC, she directs the Landscape Justice Initiative, which focuses on communities that design has not historically reached, in efforts at achieving environmental, climate and spatial justice. One of Alison’s primary research areas centers on rural communities in California’s Central Valley and the vast inequalities inscribed in that landscape reshaped by 150 years of industrial agriculture. Alison was the 2017-2018 Prince Charitable Trusts/Rolland Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy and a 2020-2021 LAF Fellow in Leadership+Innovation.
SAT-C03: Cultivating Climate Justice: New Frameworks for Rural Resilience
Saturday, October 28, 2023
3:45pm – 5:00pm CT