Shannon Hackett
Shannon Hackett earned a BS from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas and was a doctoral candidate in medieval French literature at Northwestern University. She studied horticulture and landscape design at the Professional School of the Chicago Botanic Garden, where she served on the Design Symposium Advisory Committee. A landscape designer and president of Fine Gardens, LLC, she focuses on ecological residential design and historic garden restoration. Her projects include the restoration of the Jens Jensen-designed Florsheim estate in Highland Park, Illinois. She is a member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, MetroHort (New York City), the Midwest Ecological Landscape Design Association, and the Landscape Design Association, of which she is a past president.