Jamie Feinstein, RLA

Jamie is a licensed professional Landscape Architect with over 15 years of experience in landscape architecture, environmental design, construction management and general contracting in both the public and private sectors and across a variety of project scales. Her multifaceted background includes managing a green infrastructure design and construction program, building urban parkland in lower Manhattan, ecosystem restoration, and vertical building construction projects. She has written technical specifications and bid packages, provided construction project management and oversight as well as performed environmental data monitoring. Jamie has also led community and municipal design projects through complex approvals processes and connected with local education partners to perform ongoing ecological restoration and stewardship work.

During her time at New York City Parks, she contributed to a city-wide, cross-jurisdictional green infrastructure program to improve water quality and reduce runoff in priority watersheds within the five boroughs. While working for New York Restoration Project, Jamie led the capital construction program where she worked with neighborhoods to enhance community gardens for sustainability and inclusivity as well as leading a shoreline stabilization and ecological restoration along the Harlem River. Additionally, she has managed various municipal projects in New York, re-envisioning floodplain parks along the Hudson River as well as multiple residential projects that have focused on native landscapes and gardens while managing stringent regulatory compliance parameters. Jamie has also served as a construction project manager for a general contractor, running new construction, restoration and fit-outs for clients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, giving her insight into how vertical construction and landscape coexist.

In her free time, Jamie likes to snuggle with her dog, go rock climbing, read, create perfectly balanced garden compost and make bad jokes.