Congratulations Kene Okigbo on the honor of receiving the ASLA Emerging Professional Medal!

ASLA honored its 2022 Honors Recipients at the President’s Dinner held during the Conference on Landscape Architecture. These Honors highlight some of the most noteworthy landscape architecture practitioners and firms nationwide. Selected by ASLA’s board of trustees, the honors represent the highest recognition ASLA bestows each year. This year’s ASLA Emerging Professional Medal honoree is NDC ASLA’s Kene Okigbo. Congratulations Kene!

A talented designer, Kene Okigbo, ASLA, is a contributing member of the RDG Planning & Design landscape architecture studio in Omaha, Nebraska. Okigbo has been involved with projects in various market sectors including parks and recreation, universities, sports facilities, and urban design. He is truly passionate about creating environments that positively impact the community and is inspired by the rejuvenation of existing spaces to better serve their people. Okigbo’s goal in every project is to communicate the needs of a community through landscape architecture and compelling design. He has served on ASLA the Government Affairs Committee, the Climate Action Committee, the LAM Editorial Advisory Committee, the Great Plains Chapter Emerging Professionals Committee (as chair), and the Associate Advisory committee, also as chair. Okigbo is also a Branding and Marketing Committee Member for the TEDxOmaha. He was an active ASLA Diversity Summit participant, has volunteered as mentor for the ACE Mentor Program of America and, most recently, served as moderator for ASLA’s inaugural Pre-K-12 virtual summit Dream Big with Design.

Kene previously received the ASLA 2020 Outstanding Service Award, a program that recognizes ASLA member volunteers who are making notable contributions to or on behalf of the Society at the National level.

View the nominating package for Kene here.