{"id":57403,"date":"2017-09-28T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-spotlight-on-asla-diversity-initiative-during-national-hispanic-heritage-month\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T09:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:08:19","slug":"enfoque-en-la-iniciativa-de-diversidad-de-la-asla-durante-el-mes-nacional-de-la-herencia-hispana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/enfoque-en-la-iniciativa-de-diversidad-de-la-asla-durante-el-mes-nacional-de-la-herencia-hispana\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on ASLA Diversity Initiative During National Hispanic Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 28, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) celebrates diversity during National Hispanic Heritage Month and throughout the year. National Hispanic Heritage Month, which began on <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 15<\/span> and will end on <span class=\"xn-chron\">October 15<\/span>, is a fitting time to reflect on ASLA&#8217;s efforts to raise awareness of landscape architecture careers to the widest audiences, including in underserved communities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgacaaleft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgacaaleft\" title=\"American Society of Landscape Architects logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"American Society of Landscape Architects logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/562956\/AMERICAN_SOCIETY_OF_LANDSCAPE_ARCHITECTS_LOGO.jpg \"\/><\/div>\n<p>Landscape architects are making the world a better place through the design of outdoor spaces, including parks, town squares, playgrounds and residential landscapes. They are part of a profession that needs a new, diverse generation of practitioners\u2014African Americans and Latinx together account for 17 percent of graduating landscape architecture students, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asla.org\/uploadedFiles\/CMS\/Education\/Career_Discovery\/Child_contents\/2017_ASLA_Graduating_Students_Report_0.1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">ASLA 2017 graduating student survey<\/a>. New perspective is needed to ensure that landscape architecture reflects the communities it serves.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, ASLA convened its first Diversity Summit with the goal of developing a deeper understanding of why landscape architecture is failing to attract a more diverse profile. Each summit has brought together a group of established and emerging landscape architects who identify as African American or Latinx to develop strategies that address diversity issues in the field.<\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 2017<\/span>, ASLA convened a Diversity SuperSummit, which brought together the largest group of attendees to date. Participants evaluated goals from previous summits, developed focus areas for four key diversity initiatives to guide ASLA&#8217;s work plan in the coming year, and discussed the future of the Diversity Summit. Focus items and initiatives will continue to be established and evaluated as ASLA plans future Summits.<\/p>\n<p>Planning is underway for the 2018 Diversity Summit, and ASLA will launch a Call for Letters of Interest in early 2018 for potential participants.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to explore the following resources on ASLA&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asla.org\/contentdetail.aspx?id=33626\" rel=\"nofollow\">Welcome page in Spanish<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>A new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asla.org\/diversitysummit.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">Diversity Summit webpage<\/a>\u00a0 includes links to resources, articles in both English and Spanish, and a history of Summit reports.\n<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/asla.org\/uploadedFiles\/CMS\/Meetings_and_Events\/Diversity_Summit\/DiversitySuperSummit_GraphicSummary-Spanish.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">2017 Diversity SuperSummit Summary<\/a> in Spanish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About ASLA<br \/><\/b>Founded in 1899, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is the professional association for landscape architects in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, representing more than 15,000 members. The Society&#8217;s mission is to advance landscape architecture through advocacy, communication, education and fellowship. Sustainability has been part of ASLA&#8217;s mission since its founding and is an overarching value that informs all of the Society&#8217;s programs and operations. ASLA has been a leader in demonstrating the benefits of green infrastructure and resilient development practices through the creation of its own green roof, co-development of the SITES\u00ae Rating System and the creation of publicly accessible sustainable design resources.<\/p>\n<p><b>ASLA Contact<br \/><\/b><span class=\"xn-person\">Karen Grajales<\/span><br \/>Manager, Public Relations<br \/>tel: +1-202-216-2371<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:ktgrajales@asla.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">ktgrajales@asla.org<\/a><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grajalesASLA\" rel=\"nofollow\">@ktgrajales<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/562956\/AMERICAN_SOCIETY_OF_LANDSCAPE_ARCHITECTS_LOGO.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/562956\/AMERICAN_SOCIETY_OF_LANDSCAPE_ARCHITECTS_LOGO.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  American Society of Landscape Architects<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 28, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) celebrates diversity during National Hispanic Heritage Month and throughout the year. National Hispanic Heritage Month, which began on <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 15<\/span> and will end on <span class=\"xn-chron\">October 15<\/span>, is a fitting time to reflect on ASLA&#8217;s efforts to raise awareness of landscape architecture careers to the widest audiences, including in underserved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}