CONDUIT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- ASLA Principal, Campbell & Campbell
Douglas Campbell is noted for his landmark works in the landscape as re-visioned engagements with nature, ranging from private gardens to central civic places to cities and regions in the United States, the United Kingdom and China.
Mr. Campbell and his firm have significant experience in the development of all phases of recreational, cultural and educational destination projects internationally, through concept development, planning and design and implementation. Mr. Campbell's nature restoration and interpretation work includes projects with the Audubon Society, the Science Museum in London, and the Los Angeles County Arboretum.
His honors include major public art, architecture and landscape commissions, primacy in international competitions, and notable distinctions, including listing in the International Index of Public Art, numerous museum lectures and exhibitions, and professional awards including the Architectural Record Award and Highest LEEDS Platinum Honors for North America from the United States Green Building Council.
His published and exhibited work includes many iconic cultural and civic projects, notably the architecture and landscapes of Audubon Center and the gardens of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Central Library, Haskell Plaza at Western Washington University, and the Creative Planet Regenerative Centre Wroughton Campus for the National Museum of Science and Industry in London.
Douglas Campbell's current projects include design for the Hollywood Freeway Central Park in Hollywood, California and master planning for the Santa Barbara County Administrative Campus. Recent projects include sustainable landscape design projects for the Campus of Caltech in Pasadena, California; and sustainable new town, park and urban and regional infrastructure planning, urban design, architectural and landscape design projects in California and China.
Douglas Campbell is a graduate of Pomona College and the University of California at Berkeley. He initiated his professional practice and research with a commission from Experiments in Art and Technology " Projects Outside Art" and as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Lebanon's PLAN VERT DU LIBAN in Beirut, Lebanon. His past appointments include Consultant for Sustainable Planning and Design for the Channel Islands Marine Wildlife Institute in Santa Barbara California, and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
In addition to his professional work, Mr. Campbell is engaged in research and teaching. He has lectured and taught widely, including service at the UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Planning, the USC School of Architecture and the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.
He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and has written on subjects surrounding the relationships between the designed landscape of cities, civic life and public health and well-being. His recent distinctions include:
Invited Commission: Caltech Campus Landscape Master Planning and Design, 2019
People's Choice Award, Hollywood Central Park Conceptual Design, Westside Urban Forum, Los Angeles, 2015
"Hollywood Central Park: Context for Design" Friends of Hollywood Central Park, Winter 2013-14
International Federation of Landscape Architecture (IFLA) World Congress of Landscape Architecture: "Scales of Nature", June 27-29, 2011 Zurich, Switzerland on the topic: Biodiversity in the City: Enrichment for Urban Life and Work - "Making It Personal, Making It Real".
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, (CELA) 2011 Annual Meeting, March 29-April 2, Los Angeles, California, in the theme track- "Urban Nature", on the topic "A Case Study of an Urban Nature Center in Northeast Los Angeles"
Education:
BA, Pomona College
In 2017, Joshua Cole proudly ran for the Virginia House of Delegates to represent Virginia's 28th District, becoming the first African-American and youngest person to receive any party's nomination, along the way. In a hard-fought race, Joshua finished less than 100 votes shy of having the honor of representing the 28th District. In 2019, he came back and finished the job - becoming one of the youngest members elected to the Virginia General Assembly.
Raised in the 28th, Joshua has lived in Fredericksburg and Stafford County his entire life. A product of the Stafford County Public School system, Joshua was raised by a single mother. His experience dates to 2005, when he was appointed by then-Speaker of the House, the Honorable William J. Howell, as a Page for the Virginia House of Delegates. That same year, he was chosen as the Governor's Page.
Joshua has served on Stafford County Public Schools Superintendent's Equity, Diversity and Opportunity Committee. He is a member of the Greater Fredericksburg Area Interfaith Council and the former President of the Stafford County NAACP. In 2020, he was elected as one of the five Democratic National Committee representatives from Virginia. He currently serves as an Associate Pastor at Union Bell Baptist Church in South Stafford and the Chairman of the House of Clergy for the Union of Charismatic Orthodox Churches.
In Richmond, Joshua has taken a people first approach to policy making. In his first term, he voted to increase access to affordable healthcare, raise the minimum wage and make community college tuition free.
Joshua has been a fierce advocate for progressive policy. He has taken on big issues like Climate Change, voting to protect our natural resources and hold big businesses accountable. He supported legislation that would reign in polluters and set higher standards for clean air and water quality. Joshua also parented historic legislation that will rename Jefferson Davis Highway to Emancipation Highway.
Joshua was appointed by the Speaker of the House to serve on the State Commission on Youth, Autism Advisory Council, the Rappahannock River Basin Commission, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission, and others. He also serves on the House Committees on Education, Public Safety and Chesapeake, Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- President
- President and CEO of the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerc
Julian Cañete serves as the President and CEO of the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerc e. Through its network of over 80 Hispanic chambers and business associations, the CHCC is a leading voice on issues impacting business in California. the mission of the CHCC is to foster economic growth, creating and sustaining prosperity benefiting California's economy and communities.
Julian previously served as the Director of Public Policy and Strategic Partnerships for the California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce and as President and CEO of CHCC from 1999 - 2006 and again from 2009-2012.
He is currently a member of the California Department of General Services Small Business Advisory Board, Californians for Affordable & Reliable Energy (CARE), CalTrans Small Business Council, CA Secretary of State Voters' Choice Act Task Force, the SBDC Northern CA Network Advisory Board, and the CalVet Foundation.