Gina Ford is a landscape architect, co-founder and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. Underpinning her two decades of practice are a commitment to the design and planning of public places and the perpetuation of the value of landscape architecture via thought leadership, teaching, writing and lecturing.  Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects, among others. She is on the stewardship council for the Cultural Landscape Foundation, the board of directors for the City Parks Alliance and was the recipient of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Charles Eliot Traveling ellowship and Wellesley College’s Shaw Fellowship.