JoAnn Beck is a retired Landscape Architect, whose professional experience includes academic and private practice, as well as 20 years as the Senior Landscape Architect at the City of Rochester. She serves on the Board of the Maplewood Neighborhood Association, as the President of the Board of Directors of The Highland Park Conservancy, and is a founding member of ROPA.

Patricia Corcoran has been a longtime proponent of community collaboration between entities like Friends of Mount Hope and nearby Highland Park. She has been a Friends of Mount Hope trustee for years, serving as a tour guide, speaker, chair of many committees, and most recently, president. When not involved at Mount Hope Cemetery, Pat continues her love of adventure as matriarch of a large family, as a new resident of St. John’s Meadows.

Andrew Seager retired from a career in education consulting and research. For many years he worked primarily on federally-funded regional public school education improvement efforts. In retirement he seeks to promote public awareness of the health and learning effects of green space, and to protect and improve Rochester’s parks. Andrew is The Friends of Washington Grove representative to ROPA.

Marjorie (Margie) Searl grew up in close proximity to Olmsted country. in Newton, MA, not far from Olmsted’s studio in Brookline. Little did she know that she would spend most of her life in close proximity to another group of Olmsted Parks! After she retired from 25 years at Memorial Art Gallery, she joined the board of the Highland Park Conservancy, and for a few years has been on the boards of the Friends of Mount Hope and Historic Brighton. She believes in the power of parks and public spaces as places to renew ourselves and to build community. She and her husband, Scott, enjoy traveling to Olmsted sites in other states, like Maine. One of her biggest “aha” moments was discovering that the landscape plan of her beloved alma mater, Smith College, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1892.

Maureen (Mo) Duggan is a retired community and economic development professional.  She lives in the City of Rochester and volunteers as a Park Steward in Highland Park.  Mo has come to appreciate Rochester's beautiful Olmsted-designed city parks through bike rides, kayaking and walks.  She has a special interest in saving the three Genesee Valley Park arched bridges that span the Erie Canal.

Caitlin Meives is the Director of Preservation at The Landmark Society of Western New York, a regional nonprofit historic preservation organization based in Rochester and serving a nine-county area in western New York. Caitlin works with municipal officials, developers, neighborhood and community advocates, and property owners of all types to assist in the rehabilitation and revitalization of historic buildings, structures, landscapes, and communities. She is also the co-founder of The Landmark Society’s Young Urban Preservationists.

Becky Timmons is the Director of Preservation Outreach at The Landmark Society of Western New York, a regional nonprofit historic preservation organization based in Rochester and serving a nine-county area in western New York. Becky is a Rochester-area native with twenty years of architecture and urban design experience. She manages The Landmark Society’s community outreach through print and digital media, and works with preservation staff on consulting projects and advocacy initiatives.

Jason grew up in the city’s 19th Ward and has resided at the Capron Street Lofts in downtown for the last 12 years. He initiated the Washington Square Park Neighborhood Association (WSPNA) in 2012 and led it to its incorporation as the non-profit Washington Square Community Association (WSCA) in 2017. He has served as the WSCA Board president since then. Jason is co-founder of the regional vegan/plant-based/sustainability guide, MetroPops, with his wife, Stefanie, and has also worked for Jetblue Airways for the past 19 years.

Edward Olinger is a retired landscape architect and was regional landscape architect and environmental manager for the Rochester region of the New York State Department of Transportation. The Olinger family was introduced to Rochester’s landscapes when they moved to Nunda Boulevard and found Washington Grove almost at their doorstep. Ed has served on several Rochester and community boards including the Friends of Mt. Hope Cemetery, the Friends of Washington Grove and the Rochester Preservation Board.

Katie Eggers Comeau, a Rochester-area native, has worked on multiple park documentation projects, National Register nominations, historic resource surveys, and master plans for Olmsted parks in Rochester and Utica. She is the author of a Rochester History publication on the Rochester park system, and is a former trustee of the National Association for Olmsted Parks. Katie has worked at the Landmark Society of Western New York and the Preservation League of New York State, and recently returned to Bero Architecture PLLC as the Senior Architectural Historian.

Because my husband and I bought my parents’ house, I have been a neighbor to Seneca Park for the lion’s share of my life. My sister and I, my two kids, and my two grandchildren all thought Seneca Park was simply an extension of our back yard. In 2000, Ann Baker, the late Tim O’Donnell and JoAnn Beck taught me that the park design was not there by happenstance. The vision of Frederick Law Olmsted has given us the gifts of wilderness and serenity in the midst of the city. Along with ROPA, Friends and Neighbors of Seneca Park will work to preserve the Olmsted legacy throughout our county.

Megan Klem is the Director of Preservation Services at The Landmark Society of Western New York, a regional nonprofit historic preservation organization based in Rochester and serving a nine-county region in western New York. Megan has twelve years of historic preservation and design experience, having worked in both private consulting and government roles before joining The Landmark Society. She oversees and works with Landmark's preservation staff on consulting services, advocacy initiatives, monitoring covenant properties, Landmark's Revolving Loan Fund, and co-administering the Genesee Valley Rural Revitalization Grant program with the NY State Historic Preservation Office.

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Dr. April Foreman is a psychologist passionate about the intersection of mental health and technology. She serves Veterans using her unique experience with suicide prevention and artificial intelligence. Her mission is to relieve extreme emotional pain any way she can. She lives this mission by helping one person, one moment at a time if she has to; and most often through innovation designed to serve the people who need it.

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