Danica Liongson has been selected as a 2023 WxLA Scholar among ten other designers from across the country. The WxLA scholarship aids in the professional development and success of emerging and mid-career leaders in the landscape architecture profession. WxLA is an advocacy initiative created in 2018 to encourage and lead efforts toward equality in landscape architecture. WxLA raises awareness for the challenges that prevent womxn from reaching their highest potential, provides information about the barriers to womxn and strategies for change and celebrate new models of working. The scholarship provides resources to attend the national ASLA conference and future engagement with the WxLA cohort.

With every design project and initiative that Danica is involved in, she brings an unmatched energy and inspiration for making an impact through landscape architecture and improving public spaces around her. Danica is a landscape designer with Merritt Chase in Indianapolis. Her design work and research examine the interconnected ecological and social systems in the public realm. She is a graduate of Harvard GSD and UC Davis, where her work received multiple honors, including an ASLA Certificate of Honor and Harvard GSD’s Peter Walker and Partners Fellowship for Landscape Architecture. Danica’s approach to landscape architecture is shaped by the synergy between practice, teaching and service. She is a former adjunct faculty member at Boston Architectural College and will serve as Co-Vice President on the incoming executive committee of INASLA.