Glen Dake
Board Member
Glen Dake is a landscape architect at Dake Landscape. His design work includes high-performance educational institutions including High Tech High School-LA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Keck Ocean Atmosphere Research Center and Sequoyah School in Pasadena. To improve our watersheds he helped to design numerous stormwater collection facilities for parks. He helped found the LA Community Garden Council in 1998, and he led a team to acquire land for and build a series of community gardens in Echo Park, East Hollywood, East LA, Vermont Square and Watts.
Between 2001 and 2005 he served on then-Los Angeles Council Member Eric Garcetti’s staff to lead his work for the City of LA’s Proposition O, for the Renewable Portfolio Standard, and developed thirteen new parks. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture 1987 from Cornell University, Ithaca NY. Between 2014 and 2019 he served on the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and chaired the Finance and Insurance Committee. He serves on the boards of the Accelerator for America, the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters and the Miguel Contreras Foundation.
