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Stephanie
Landregan received her first degree, in three-dimensional
art, from the University of Kentucky in 1975. She spent ten
years working in the arts as a designer in ceramics, illustration,
and photography, illustrated geologic guides and eventually
became the Art Director for the New Mexico Institute of Mining
and Technology. This led to an exhibition of her illustrations
at the Museum. After having run her own freelance design firm,
Studio, in Albuquerque, for several years, she was then hired
by the Museum of Natural History as a designer and fabricator
of exhibits, becoming Acting Director of Exhibitions from
Nov. 1988-Feb. 1989. While in Albuquerque, Ms. Landregan was
instrumental in forming the Stronghurst neighborhood association,
and in protecting the water well rights of the neighborhood
when their irrigation ditches were threatened by development.
In 1989,
Ms. Landregan moved to the Los Angeles area to pursue graduate
work in design. She worked full time for the City of Santa
Monica Planning Division for four years while attending evening
classes. In 1993, Stephanie graduated as the top student from
the UCLA Landscape Architecture Extension program. Despite
several job offers in Los Angeles, she chose to move back
to Lexington, Kentucky to work on equestrian facility design.
She became involved in a project to save a historical piece
of land, the site of the original settlement of Lexington,
which was threatened by development. She was invited to become
one of the founding board members of the Friends of McConnell
Springs and Friends of the Parks, volunteering both time and
design skills to create a viable park design. With bake sales
and other community events, the Friends bought McConnell Springs
and it is now a lovely 8-acre park in Lexington. Stephanie
also was appointed and served on the Parks Board and the Friends
of the Parks, a community organization that provided hands-on
assistance and fundraising to improve aging park equipment
within the region.
Returning
in 1995 to the Los Angeles region, she settled in the Montrose
area of Glendale, and began working for Lawrence R. Moss and
Associates as a Senior Landscape Architect specializing in
city design projects and public process. Stephanie soon bought
a home in the mountains of north Glendale, and still marvels
at the ‘glen’ in which she is so fortunate to
be living!
Since
1999, Stephanie has worked as Senior Landscape Architect and
Division Chief (2002) for the Mountains Recreation and Conservation
Authority, a regional parks agency. She has facilitated community
design workshops, overseen and completed construction of over
20 park projects ranging in budget from $35,000 to over $5
million. For the past three years, Ms. Landregan has also
been on the faculty of the UCLA Landscape Architecture Extension
Program, teaching thesis and history of landscape architecture.
In 1996,
Stephanie was appointed to the City of Glendale’s Design
Review Board, serving two terms. Her active involvement in
Planning in Glendale also includes participation on many blue
ribbon committees -- among them the Fence Committee and Sign
Committee, both appointments by the Glendale City Council.
Professionally,
she has been active in the Southern California Chapter of
the American Society of Landscape Architects (SCCASLA) from
1997 to present. Her work has taken her to Washington, D.C.
to lobby Congress for bills that improve the environment and
include beautification of roadways. She served on the committee
for the extension of the 215 freeway, representing the cities
of San Dimas and La Verne, and successfully lobbied CalTrans
to plant wildflowers when they had no funds planned for landscaping.
In October of 2002, Stephanie was elected President of SCCASLA,
the largest chapter in the United States. National ASLA President
Miller recently reappointed her to the Government Affairs
Committee, where she has been able to influence legislation
and lobbying efforts on a national level.
Herb Wesson,
Speaker of the Assembly, appointed Ms. Landregan to the State
of California’s Landscape Architects Technical Committee
(LATC) in 2002. She was elected Vice Chair of the LATC in
2003 and reelected in 2004. She is also representative and
advocate for the State of California on the Council of Landscape
Architects Registration Board (CLARB) and is alternate regional
director of the Western Region of CLARB.
Other
volunteer activities have included riding her bicycle from
San Francisco to Los Angeles twice -- in 1999 and 2000 --
in the California AIDS ride, raising over $11,000 for victims
of AIDS. During the 2000 ride, Stephanie met Chip Hunter,
who asked her to join the board of ARTshare Los Angeles, an
arts group that provides art to at-risk and inner-city teens.
She has organized several fun and successful fundraisers for
ARTshare. Stephanie fought hard to raise money, secure grants
and keep ARTshare afloat during the last few years, serving
as chair, and working with the City of Los Angeles office
of Councilperson Jan Perry to complete capital improvements
to the organization’s downtown art studios.
Candidate
ID #1273138
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