Kate Kennen

Kate Kennen is a landscape architect, and the founder and president of Offshoots, Inc. (www.offshootsinc.com ), a Boston, Massachusetts landscape architecture practice focused on productive planting techniques and phytotechnology consulting. Offshoots has won numerous awards for projects integrating plantings to clean up polluted sites. Having spent her childhood at her family's garden center in central Massachusetts, Kate is well versed in the plants of the Northeast. She completed her undergraduate studies in Landscape Architecture at Cornell University, and received her master's degree in Landscape Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Kate also teaches in the Landscape Architecture department at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Previous to opening Offshoots, Kennen worked as an Associate at Design Workshop in Aspen, Colorado.