Jennifer Dowdell

Baltimore

Jennifer A. Dowdell serves as project manager and senior landscape ecological planner/designer at Biohabitats Inc., based in their Chesapeake Bay bioregional offices. For over a decade she has applied principles of ecology, landscape architecture, conservation planning, and living infrastructure to projects ranging from greenways to state parks, college campuses, and urban ecological networks. Her work merges landscape ecology, resilience strategies, and environmental justice in site design and planning. After receiving a BA in History and Creative Nonfiction Writing from Loyola University in Maryland, she earned her MLA from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment (now SEAS), where she worked with Joan Nassauer in her Landscape Ecology, Perception, and Design Lab. Her writing has been published in the Wilson Quarterly, Landscape Architecture Magazine, PLACES Journal, theEarthIssue #4, and the e-quarterly, Leaf Litter. Jennifer’s experience in writing and advocacy informs her work facilitating dialogue about the social and ecological narratives that inform our landscapes.