Jack Sullivan is a design consultant for The Green Road Healing Garden at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. He is a licensed landscape architect and an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia (MLA), a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Sullivan was the Coordinator for the professionally accredited Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program (2001-2008) and the Master of Landscape Architecture Program (2008-2012). He teaches courses in design for urban landscapes and sustainable communities, graphic communication, and landscape construction. In 2012, Sullivan was the guest curator for “Landscape as Laboratory” at the Evergreen Museum and Library (Baltimore), for which he and his students designed and installed ten site-specific sculptures throughout the 26-acre grounds.
Sullivan is President of the Board of Directors of the Neighborhood Design Center (Baltimore and Prince George’s County) and a Board Member of the Urban Resources Initiative (Baltimore). He is currently co-editing a fall 2014 special issue of the journal Africa Today (Indiana University Press) on African landscapes and issues of sustainability.