About me
Julieta Trevino Sherk is a distinguished Professor and professional landscape architect known for her expertise in teaching and community design. At North Carolina State University (NCSU) since 2003, she holds a position in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences within the Department of Horticultural Sciences. Additionally, she serves as an associate faculty member in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the NCSU College of Design. With a career spanning since 1994, Professor Sherk has extensive experience in both practice and academia. Along with imparting knowledge and skills in landscape design to her students, she works with students to explore and create natural and engaging spaces that contribute to the well-being of both the community and the environment. She is particularly interested in tackling landscape design projects and evaluating the results of her efforts. She promotes the importance of using artful forms, the use of plants as design elements, and believes in the critical role they play in health/wellbeing and the enhancement of the human/nature experience. To this end, she is interested in opportunities to protect and regenerate natural, social/cultural resources while incorporating living infrastructure such as bio-retention, pollinator, edible and ornamental landscapes that provide multiple benefits to vulnerable people's daily lives and the voiceless; plants, soil, and water. Known for her versatility, Professor Sherk has the unique ability to deliver instruction across various topics, and year levels, and can deliver in lecture-based and studio/workshop formats. She fosters critical and creative thinking and enhances problem solving for her students by infusing service-learning and evidence-based approaches in her teaching. She has executed a variety of service-learning projects with her students across communities in NC, and internationally. With her students, Professor Sherk has actively engaged in service-learning projects addressing key and timely issues that pose critical questions and keep presenting themselves in contemporary discourse related to community development, marginalization, democratic design, and evidence-based design. She has also been recognized for her international contributions, receiving the J. William Fulbright Foreign Global Scholar Science/Technology Academic and Research Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State Global Program for 2017-2018 in Mexico. During and after her Fulbright experience, she has taught courses and collaborated in community design projects across Mexico, implementing strategies that address service-learning design projects in which she helps train students and faculty in developing small urban design improvement projects. Through conducting workshops with the community, students enriched their connection to the local people and experienced real-world applications of the skills introduced in the class, while serving as a support to healthy community development. Professor Sherk's exemplary contributions extend beyond her teaching and include noteworthy achievements in the scholarship evidenced by her quality, originality, and broad dissemination of work. She is a sought-after speaker who delivers impactful presentations at local, national, and global levels. Her dedication, and commitment to teaching, and her scholarly contributions to both the scholarship of teaching and learning and the field of landscape design make her a prominent figure in her profession.