Dana Nunez Brown has worked for 33 years as a landscape architect and planner in her native New Orleans as well as Baton Rouge, Boston, and Orange County, Calif. After 15 years in California, she returned to Baton Rouge—where she had lived as an undergraduate—to take a teaching position at LSU and be near her mother. Brown left teaching six years ago to practice full-time with her firm, Dana Brown & Associates, which has offices downtown and in New Orleans. Her work focuses on community planning, ecological design, public outreach and project leadership. Read the complete Q&A here. Here’s a sample:
What is the greatest personal or professional obstacle you’ve overcome?
“Attending and graduating from Harvard University Graduate School of Design while starting out with $750 to live on. I worked at several jobs at the same time to pay expenses, including teaching fellow, landscape architect at a Boston firm, and modeler at the Harvard Lab for Computer Graphics.”
