Cheri Ruane, ASLA, leads the design studio at Weston and Sampson. She is a registered Landscape Architect with 18 years experience in multi-disciplinary project management, construction administration, site analysis and public design. She was involved with the restoration of Boston’s historic park system, the Emerald Necklace, during her tenure at the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. She has special expertise with public site design and facilitating the community participation process. She attained her BLA from the University of Massachusetts and her Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

Danielle Desilets, RLA, has been practicing landscape architecture for 20 years with a particular focus on historic and cultural landscape preservation, campus planning and design, and passive park and trail design, as well as the full spectrum of the profession. She has been project manager on a wide variety of projects from trail system planning to design for accessibility and sustainability. Danielle has been the project manager for more than 25 public park and open space projects since joining KZLA in 2014. She received her BLA from the University of Rhode Island, and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Cornell University.