Name: Alison Richardson Title: Principal, Landscape Architect Company: Brown Richardson + Rowe, Inc. Location: 3 Post Office Sq., Boston, Mass. Place of birth: Wilson Farm, Needham, Mass. Family: Husband Kenneth and daughter Emilie College: Barnard College; U. Wisconsin-Madison BSLA with Honors, 1976. First job unrelated to your current field: Café at Children's Hospital in Boston at 16. First job in current field: Sasaki Associates, a firm of landscape architects, architects and engineers in Watertown, Mass. What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Brown Richardson +Rowe, Inc. is a design firm of landscape architects and planners focusing on public work: waterfront parks, playgrounds, colleges, transportation and housing + historic preservation. Hobbies: Gardening, hiking, swimming, reading, music. Volunteer at the Boston Architectural College. Member of Arnold Arboretum and Boston Athenaeum. Favorite novel: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Favorite film(s): 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'Citizen Kane', 'Mrs. Miniver'. Keys to success: Talent, passion, curiosity, empathy, luck, perseverance. Person(s) you most admire (outside of family); Abraham Lincoln. If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Poet, Broadway musical star, set designer or sheep farmer