Dena Kennett
Dena Kennett is a public realm leader with extensive experience delivering transformative landscape architecture projects.
She leads major capital projects for the National Park Service. Her work sits at the intersection of cultural landscape stewardship, long term sustainability, and institutional decision making across some of the country’s most visited and historically significant public lands. Representative projects include tornado recovery at Chickasaw National Recreation Area, utility modernization at Bandelier National Monument, waterfront plaza redesign at Alcatraz Embarkation, and rehabilitation of Arlington Memorial Bridge.
Before joining the federal government, Dena directed multidisciplinary teams at nationally recognized firms. She has served as president of ASLA’s Potomac Chapter and as program director for the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s New Landscape Declaration Summit. She is currently serving on ASLA’s 2026 National Awards Jury. During her Loeb year, she plans to examine how institutions change and how practitioners can drive that change from within.