Authors & Presenters



posted Jan 10, 2020

Justin Azevedo

Justin, a licensed Arizona landscape architect, earned a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Arizona State University in 2014. He was a key participant in the Coffman Studio team that earned an Honor Award from the AZ Chapter of the Am...


posted Sep 20, 2018

Kalene Griffith

Kalene Griffith is the president of Visit Bentonville in Bentonville, Arkansas. Griffith promotes Bentonville as a world-class travel destination and advocates for growth within the arts, cycling, culinary, music, aviation, and film scenes. In 2005, ...


posted Jun 7, 2023

Karen Ann Miller

Karen Ann Miller has been a Planner with the Kane County Development Department in Geneva, Illinois for almost twenty-three years. She has had a wide range of responsibilities from local and regional planning to organizing a variety of County functio...


posted Aug 9, 2022

Karen Lorf

Karen Lorf currently serves as the State Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator with the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). Her responsibilities focus on oversight of the Active Transportation Program which includes the Empire State Tr...


posted Feb 9, 2018

Karen Umphress

Karen Umphress has been active on trails her entire life, starting with hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, and canoeing with her family. She then added Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) recreation. For close to a decade, she was the IT and Project Manager...


posted Feb 10, 2018

Karen Vitkay

Karen Vitkay is a Registered Landscape Architect with Alta Planning + Design in their Portland, Oregon office. She has focused on bicycle, pedestrian, and trail planning and design for the last ten years and currently leads Alta’s national wayfinding...


posted Feb 2, 2023

Karin Reid Offield

Born in Aspen Colorado, Karin spent decades riding horses learning to jump, play polo, barrel race, and it was in the Roaring Fork Valley where she learned how to go out on trail rides to have fun and come back safely. Karin began riding horses and ...


posted Jun 5, 2019

Karl Beard

Karl Beard, pioneering Trail Planner of the National Park Service Rivers & Trails Conservation Assistance Program. Karl has played an instrumental role in the development of numerous trails of local, regional, national, and international signific...


posted Mar 1, 2018

Kate Bickert

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posted Jan 26, 2018

Kate Kirsh, PLA

Kate Kirsh, Foothill Associates President and Landscape Architect, specializes in parks, trails, recreation, and opens space planning and design at the regional, local, and site scales. She has worked on all phases of project planning and design incl...