- People -- Introduction
- Living Memorials: Acts of Social Meaning Create Places of Resilience
- People's Relationship with Trees
- Lessons from the Field: Living Memorial Stewards
Anne Wiesen
Living Memorials Project Consultant; Healing Trees Project Author; Thriving Places, Sacred Spaces Workshop Presenter
Anne Wiesen is a Landscape Design Consultant and Environmental Educator, specializing in urban landscape restoration and multi-cultural community development. Wiesen received a National Science Foundation Fellowship to pioneer work in Ethnobotany at New York University (MS, 1997) and The New York Botanical Garden. Previous to this she earned a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, focusing on the development of human potential. Her undergraduate studies at Duke University were in Anthropology and Comparative Religions. Wiesen directed Educational Outreach at The New York Botanical Garden (1997-99). In this capacity she designed and led innovative workshops in which leaders in civil society were joined in visioning and implementing ventures in local land reclamation and stewardship. Wiesen responded to the needs of highly diversified audiences, working with young people and adults across varied cultural, economic, educational and linguistic backgrounds to preserve open space and create gardens and landscapes that represent community interests.
