Meet CED Alums

The Cultural Landscape Foundation announced that Mexico City–based landscape architect Mario Schjetnan, who received his master of landscape architecture degree from UC Berkeley, and the firm he founded and leads, Grupo de Diseño Urbano, are the recipients of the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture.

Rachel Vineberg Jones (MArch 2019) and her husband Eric Jones have made a generous commitment to the College of Environmental Design to increase access to design education for North Bay high school students.

Punk legend Kamala Parks’s day job is as a transportation planner with BART: “When you’re a punk, you love efficiency, sustainability, democracy,” she said. “Transit fulfills all these things.” She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2005 with an MS in Civil Engineering and a Master of City Planning from the College of Environmental Design.

The Department of Architecture welcomes Diana J. S. Martinez (BA Architecture 2001), a scholar of the architecture of U.S. empire with a focus on the Philippines, to the faculty as assistant professor in architectural history and theory.

The American Society of Landscape Architects honored Maria Fernanda “MaFe” Gonzalez (MLA 2022) with its 2025 Emerging Professional Medal. Selected by ASLA’s Board of Trustees, the medal is one of the highest honors the ASLA bestows each year.