Résumé

Kenney was fortunate to work with the firm of Carol R. Johnson Associates in Boston. This early, woman-owned studio had a broad practice, but worked frequently on university landscape projects. This experience working within the unique social contexts of academic institutions provided her excellent preparation for his future career as the Landscape Architect at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Landscape Architect and Planning Intern, City of Warwick Planning Department, Warwick, RI, 06/1994-10/1997.

Associate, Carol R. Johnson Associates, Incorporated, Landscape Architects, Boston, MA, 06/1997-10/2003. Carol Roxane Johnson (1929-2020) operated her landscape architectural firm in Boston between 1959 and the early 2010s. The firm did all manner of large-scale institutional projects, collaborating frequently with colleges and universities.

Senior Associate, Mithun Partners, Architects + Designers + Planners, Seattle, WA, 10/2003-12/2006.

University Landscape Architect / Director of Campus Design and Planning, University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Seattle, WA, 12/2006- .

Professional Activities

Memberships

Member, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

Member, ASLA, Urban Design Professional Practice Network.

Member, ASLA Campus Planning and Design Professional Practice Network.

Member, ASLA, Sustainable Design and Development Professional Practice Network.

Member, Association of University Landscape Architects (AULA).

Member, Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), Ann Arbor, MI.

Member, Association for Women in Architecture.

Professional Awards

Recipient, University of Washington, Bothell, UW Distinguished Staff Award, Bothell, WA, 2018.

Recipient, American Institute of Architects, Seattle Chapter, Honorary Membership, 2021.

College

B.Arch., Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, 1988-1993.

B.L.Arch., University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 1994-1997.

Relocation

She resided at 800 Maxwell Drive in Schenectady, NY, in 1993.

Likely between 1997 and 2003, she lived at 24 Howland Road in Lakeville, MA.

She moved to the Seattle, WA, area in 2003 to start a job with Mithun Partners.

Parents

Her mother Patricia A. Harriman (born 11/09/1939 in Calais, ME-d. 09/19/2011 in Schenectady, NY), worked as a licensed practical nurse (LPN). Patricia married Clifford C. McReavy (born c. 07/1940) on 03/01/1959 in ME. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. Maine, U.S., Marriage Index, 1892-1996 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003, accessed 09/23/2021.) They lived in Bangor, ME, while he was mechanical engineering student at the University of Maine, between 1959 and 1962, but moved to Niskayuna, NY, by c. 1970. (See H.A. Manning Company's Bangor, Maine, City Directory, 1961, p. 422.) Patricia and Clifford lived in Niskayuna, a town three miles southeast of Schenectady, for 41 years, and raised five children.

Kenney had four siblings: Kevin McReavy (who died prior to 2011), Karen McReavy Graham, Kimberly McReavy Merlock, and William McReavy.

Biographical Notes

Early in her career, she went by the hyphenated last name "McReavy-Kenney."