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Posted: June 18, 2015
Professional Profile: Alison Richardson 2015
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
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