Board & Staff

Christopher Grosset is a partner and senior consultant with NVision Insight Group (formerly Aarluk Consulting), an Indigenous Consulting firm based in Ottawa and Iqaluit.  His practice is to document cultural landscapes and integrate Indigenous traditional knowledge with contemporary planning for protected areas and heritage sites. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1993 and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Guelph in 2000. 

Christopher is a founding member of the Nunavut Association of Landscape Architects (2002), past NUALA President, and was accepted to the CSLA in 2003. From 2005 through 2011 he was a CSLA Director, working on various committees including Advocacy and Communications. Christopher was the Chair of the CSLA Awards of Recognition program in 2008 and 2009, and has served on the CSLA World Landscape Architecture Month committee from its founding in 2008 until 2013. 

Christopher was Chair of the CSLA 2011 Congress in Iqaluit, Nunavut, and received the CSLA Schwabenbauer Award that year. He was elected to the College of Fellows in 2014.  He Chaired the CSLA Reconciliation Advisory Committee from 2016 to 2020, mandated “to guide the CSLA in improving awareness and capacity for supporting Canada’s First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples”.  Christopher was awarded the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Presidents Award in 2018 for his work to further the profession on Indigenous awareness.  NVision received a 2018 CSLA Award of Excellence in large scale planning and analysis for the Kinngaaluk Territorial Park Master Plan.  In 2022 Agguttinni Uumajunut Pimmariuninginnut (Territorial Park) by NVision Insight Group Inc. with John Laird Associates was awarded the Jury's Award of Excellence and National Award for Planning. Christopher is a regular contributor to Landscapes/Paysages.

Since 2000, Bob is a Principal and Landscape Architect with Scatliff + Miller + Murray (SMM) having played a significant role in many CSLA Award winning projects including Waterfront Drive (2006), The Plaza @ The Forks (2007), East Side Road Revegetation (2015), and the Wascana Landscape + Irrigation Master Plan (2018), Bob is a graduate of the University of Manitoba’s Master of Landscape Architecture program in 2002. In addition to Bob's active role in the Manitoba landscape he is the managing partner of the SMM Regina office since 2014 and has led significant assignments across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Northern Ontario. For the society, Bob has served as MALA President (2012-14), CSLA Director (MALA Representative 2014-2016), co-chaired the 2016 CSLA Congress in Winnipeg, and was a Director of the LACF from 2017 to 2023, where he also served as the LACF diversity champion. In 2019, Bob was inducted into the CSLA College of Fellows. In addition to his work with the Society, Bob is an active volunteer in Winnipeg and completed his term as president of Manitoba Music in 2022. 
 

Catherine is a Registered Landscape Architect and a Registered Professional Planner. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has been at the forefront of her disciplines, building relationships, integrating GIS applications, and preparing plans and designs that have enhanced communities and the environment. 

Her current work is with Urban Systems, an interdisciplinary firm of 600 with 15 offices in Western Canada. She previously spent 28 years as principal of Catherine Berris Associates Inc. (CBA), an award-winning boutique firm in Vancouver. Her project experience spans community and site planning for Indigenous communities, municipalities, and land developments; community engagement; parks, recreation, culture, and trails planning and design; nature-based design solutions; urban forest strategies; coastal planning; and cemetery planning and design. 

Catherine is also engaged in community service and mentoring.  She is currently on the Professional Governance Act Working Group for the BCSLA, supporting BC landscape architects in becoming a regulated profession. She provides leadership and mentoring to Urban Systems’ 24-person landscape architecture practice. In 1999, she was honored by being appointed a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects.

Joanne has found landscape architecture to be a guiding light in her life, providing endless interest, delight and fulfillment throughout her years of practice. 

Joanne is a full member of the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, CSLA & IFLA and has worked in the industry fo 40 + years, most recently, the Municipal Public sector for 30+ years in various roles as a Landscape Architect at the City of Ottawa. Joanne’s focus included traditional Landscape Architecture, Recreation Planning, Park Design and Capital Development & Renewal, and has enjoyed award-winning works such as Project Management for the Gloucester Growth Areas Recreation Master Plan  and Staff Landscape Architect for the Sandy Hill Flood Control and Park Rehabilitation as well as implementing park improvements for many hundreds of sites in the City. 

Joanne believes in the value of volunteering and has contributed significant time to many groups, most pertinently, governance with professional associations including the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. Joanne ended an extended term 2007-2017 on the Executive of OALA at the March AGM and has contributed as Councillor and Chair and member on many committees. Joanne was also pleased to serve as the Board Representative for the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects; as Chair of the OALA Honours Awards and Protocol Committee; as a juror and chair for the CSLA Awards and on the roster for the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Council; the OALA Discipline Committee; the joint OALA/CSLA membership review committees; and the Editorial Board for Landscapes|Paysages and Chair of the book review committee.

Since joining Niagara Parks in 2016 as Senior Director and member of the executive team Steve has been responsible for planning, environmental stewardship, culture interpretation across all Niagara Parks properties and historic sites. Steve oversees the development policy and planning strategy to delivery on Niagara Parks mandate of environmental and cultural stewardship for the Niagara River corridor. Some of the more recent initiatives include the establishment of coastal wetland sites along the upper Niagara River, a new public realm plan at the brink of the falls and the Heritage adaptive reuse of the 1905 Hydroelectric power station.

Prior to Niagara Parks Steve was with City of Hamilton responsible for Park Planning and implementation of open space capital projects and managing Forestry and Horticulture division. Steve has worked on a wide range of projects including master plans, Heritage restoration sites, coastal wetland rehabilitation, waterfront development, transportation, storm water management systems and visual impact assessments and provided expert witness testimony at the Environmental Review Tribunal. Steve is a  registered Landscape Architect with the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects since 2000 and currently serving on its governing council as the association’s past president. Steve graduated with a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Guelph and with a Bachelor of Earth Science from the University of Waterloo. In 2016 Steve received the OALA Public Practice award.

Tracey Hesse holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (1994) from Concordia University and a master’s degree in Design (Landscape option) from the University of Montreal (2000). At HETA, she works on diverse mandates from planning and designing, to research studies and visual analyses, as well as writing reports and technical documents for tender submittals.

Tracey acquired practical experience in both design and execution early in her career, working as a landscape contractor in her own company for eight years. Today, she has over 18 years experience in landscape architecture in the public and private sectors. She has worked for EDAW, an international landscaping firm based in the United-States, in Atlanta, GA and several other landscape architecture firms in Montreal. Since 2015, she has been an associate at HETA (Hodgins & Associates).

In 2009 and 2010, she worked as an administrative assistant for the AAPQ. This opportunity allowed her to familiarize herself with the daily operations of the Association. Subsequently, she was part of the Admissions Committee until 2019.

Tracey is known for her excellent drawing skills and urban landscape designs. She is proficient in plant selection for residential and urban projects. In 2015, she was awarded 1st Ex-aequo Prize and the Prix Coup de cœur in the category of small garden spaces from the APPQ for Le filigree, a collaboration with Éric Fleury and Les aménagements paysagers l’Artisan. She is currently a member of the Jury for the Prix Habitat Design, an initiative to promote excellence and multidisciplinary collaboration in the marketing of residential projects in Quebec.

Born and raised in Atlantic Canada, Cameron was introduced to the landscape industry at an early age by way of the landscape maintenance sector.  After completing a university degree in New Brunswick, he learned of the profession of landscape architecture from a friend and decided to pursue a BLA at the University of Guelph, graduating in 2005. He currently resides in Canada's far north in the City of Iqaluit.  There,he has held progressive roles in municipal and territorial government.  Cameron has been a NuALA board member and CSLA board director since 2011. He enjoys spending his time with family, travelling and being in the great outdoors.
 

Hans story started at the eastern suburbs of Berlin, Germany with a passion for gardening and landscaping, which led Hans to pursue the profession of Landscape Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany. He also had a passion for people and cultures and gained invaluable experience at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center in Florida as Cultural representative, where he met his future wife. Following his heart and love, Hans made his way to Nova Scotia and worked under WSP Canada Inc. with land surveyors, urban planners and engineers while developing Landscape Architecture for the Atlantic region. In 2017 he was hired by the Municipality of Argyle as Director of Public Works, providing him with the opportunity to experience the local community and set deeper roots for his own family. He is actively participating on the APALA board of directors as past president and leading a local community volunteer group. Hans just recently opened the doors of Arrow's Edge Landscape Architecture Inc. and is sharing his vision and ideas with people, community and other professions. 
 

Vanessa Jukes Strutt was born and raised in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, which set the foundation for her love of the prairie landscape. Spending her summers at her family cabin at Buffalo Pound Lake in the Qu’Appelle River Valley, she grew up in the short grass prairie marveling at prickly pear cactus, blue grama grass, prairie rose, among others. 

Vanessa is a Landscape Architect and Project Manager with Physical Plant, Architectural & Engineering Services at the University of Manitoba (UM). Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects in the public and private sectors gaining extensive interdisciplinary experience expanding beyond landscape architecture and planning to include civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, architecture and interior design projects. 

Vanessa’s project portfolio at UM primarily includes leading project teams for infrastructure renewal and public realm development on all UM campuses. Some of her favourite recent projects include those that help shape the landscape to be more resilient through flood mitigation, more sustainable through the establishment of a native revegetation and reforestation strategy and more accessible through the advancement of a University wide accessibility audit of the built environment and public realm. Vanessa is the current Past President of the Manitoba Association of Landscape Architects.

Emily Dunlop is a Registered Landscape Architect in British Columbia and a Senior Planner with the Vancouver Park Board’s Planning, Policy & Environment team with over 20 years of experience in planning, landscape architecture, environmental restoration, and active transportation projects across B.C., Alberta, and Ontario.  Emily leads the Stanley Park Comprehensive Plan in collaboration with Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, as well as multiple citywide parks and recreation strategies such as the Vancouver Skateboard Strategy, the Stanley Park Mobility Study and the Parks and Recreation Parking Strategy.

Emily has over 12 years of experience leading, managing and mentoring planners, landscape architects and public engagement professionals. Emily recently led the Sustainable and Ecological City Policy Working Group for VancouverPlan, the City’s long-range strategy for managing growth. In this role, she facilitated collaboration among biologists, planners, engineers and other professionals to develop and engage a set of guiding policies and a 100-year vision for connected ecological network across the City. 

Emily has a history of volunteering for the BC Society of Landscape Architects as a Board Director, BCSLA Intern/Associate Representative, LARE Workshop Facilitator, and a member of the Professional & Public Relations Committee and co-author of the BCSLA Fee Guide.