About UHC
Anna Glenn
Vice President
UHC co-founder Anna Glenn has assisted in all areas of development of the organization since it’s inception. She has lent her various office and field talents to draft founding documents, market the organization at several events, present to groups on UHC projects and initiatives, and construct and maintain urban agriculture projects. As Vice President, Anna chairs several committees including the annual lecture series, fundraising, and membership. She also co-managed the budget in 2009 and developed projected operating budgets. She has also played an important role in establishing new partnerships to UHC, including the Mayor’s Office of the City of Chicago.
Anna is a landscape designer based in Chicago, Illinois, with fifteen years of landscape experience. She began her career maintaining high-end residential landscapes and now her work focuses on combining design, science, and ingenuity to create productive urban places, whether they be for aesthetic, economic, or environmental purposes - or all three! Her interests include the design of educational spaces such as college campuses, elementary and grade schools, public spaces such as urban neighborhoods, multi-family community gardens, municipal farms and forests, and private spaces such as food-integrated urban gardens, orchards, and suburban homesteads.
Anna holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology on Chicago’s south side. Her designs come to life with eloquent narratives, conceptual models, and scaled drawings.
Anna has designed children’s playgrounds as an intern at a landscape architecture and urban planning office in Chicago, designed Permaculture-based campus master plans for her undergraduate university, and served as a natural resource management volunteer in Peace Corps-The Gambia. In personalizing her work, she draws on her experiences in the fields of science, education, law, labor, and design. While studying Biology as an undergraduate, Anna discovered her passion for research and enjoys writing scientific and history papers.
Chris Balish, an award-winning writer, reporter, and broadcast journalist, quoted Anna in his book “How to Live Well Without Owning A Car” (2006). Anna has been a year-round bike commuter since 2003.
Lectures and presentations
The History and Relevance of North Park Village
Vermicomposting Workshop, Aug 2009