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Presenters: Veronica Tyson Strait & Angela Kyle


Randall’s Island, located next to Manhattan, is well known as a home for numerous public institutions, and as a destination for sports and outdoor music events. That said, most New Yorkers are unaware that it is also home to many acres of wetlands, woodlands, meadows, and ornamental gardens that create beauty and sanctuary on a landscape that is surrounded on all sides by the bustle of New York City. In this presentation Veronica will show how native gardens were planted to enhance biodiversity and create greater access for the highly diverse surrounding community. 

The act of shaping the built environment has historically been the domain of the few and the privileged. Angela Kyle will show examples from her work in New Orleans, Louisiana and Pensacola, Florida, using play and experiential learning to shape child-friendly environments, and invite young people and under-represented communities to the table. She will also illustrate how she has used personal history and narrative to engage Black residents in the restoration of cultural landscapes historically significant to the African-American community. 


Date & Time: Thursday, July 21, 2022, 1:30 - 3:45 PM ET* 

Location: Virtual

Fee: $58

Event Category: Professional 

CEUs: APLD (2), ASLA/LACES (2), NOFA (2)
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Presenters

Veronica Tyson-Strait is a landscape and garden designer, horticulturist, educator, and fine artist with a passion for ecological diversity and spaces that provide opportunities for reflection, wellness, and sustenance. She currently manages the horticulture staff at Randal’s Island Park Alliance and oversees the restoration and upkeep of native plant meadows, a woodland landscape, ornamental gardens, and Greenstreet plantings. Veronica also teaches classes at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York Botanical Garden. She holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture and studied at the New York Botanical Gardens.

Angela Kyle, MBA, MSRED, a native of the Gulf South, has worked in the urban design and planning arenas as an executive and a consultant for firms including Gehl, SCAPE, and SvN. As a social entrepreneur she co-founded PlayBuild, a placemaking non-profit in New Orleans focused on transforming vacant lots into playgrounds. In 2021 she founded Jennie’s Legacy to promote the Black history of the iconic Pensacola waterway, Carpenter’s Creek, and to advocate for the equitable restoration of this cultural landscape, which has been associated with her family since the early 1900s.

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