Brian Dougherty

Brian Dougherty, FASLA, grew up in Oklahoma City and holds degrees in horticulture and landscape design from Oklahoma State University, where he later served as an associate professor and department head at the John E. Kirkpatrick Horticulture Cener. In 1998, Dougherty joined the Oklahoma City Community Foundation, guiding numerous beautification and environmental projects during his twenty-four years as program director of the Parks and Public Spaces Initiative and the Margaret Annis Boys Trust. A licensed landscape architect and fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Dougherty has dedicated his career to the planning, planting, and maintenance of parks and public spaces, as well as educating communities on their value. In retirement, he tends eighty acres of gardens, pastures, and native habitats at his family farm in Hinton, Oklahoma.