Alumni Insights Virtual Series: Preparing for Your Career After Penn with Jared McKnight

Join us for part one of this series with Jared McKnight (March’12), Assoc. ASLA, Assoc. AIA, Senior Associate, Designer at WRT. Jared will share advice and tips on the interview process, resume / portfolio / cover letter preparation, and boosting your LinkedIn profile. Open to all Weitzman students!

Jared Edgar McKnight is a Senior Associate + Designer at WRT (Wallace Roberts & Todd), a landscape architecture, planning, urban design, and architecture firm based in Philadelphia and San Francisco. Based in Los Angeles, Jared works across WRT's disciplines and conducts research within WRT and with USC's Landscape Justice Initiative. Jared’s professional work, and research, focus on projects that support both environmental and social resilience, through community engagement and design interventions that challenge the structures that isolate and exclude communities and ecosystems, with an empathic lens that considers those whose voices, and identities, are not often heard, or designed for.

Email Kali Meeks (kmeeks@upenn.edu), Director of Professional Development & Leadership, for Zoom link.

If you require any accessibility accommodation, such as live captioning, audio description, or a sign language interpreter, please email news@design.upenn.edu. Please note, we require at least five (5) business days’ notice.