Team

Kate Orff

RLA, FASLA
Founding Principal, Partner
Gena Wirth

FASLA, RLA
Design Principal, Partner
Alexis C. Landes

Managing Principal, Partner
John Donnelly

RLA
Technical Principal, Partner
Pippa Brashear

RLA, WEDG
Resilience Principal, Partner
Brad Howe

RLA
Principal
Laura Marett

RLA, LEED AP
Principal
Lee Altman

AIA, LEED AP
Principal
Chris Barnes

RLA
Principal
Martin Harwood

RLA, ISA, LEED AP
Principal
Nans Voron

WEDG
Principal
Despo Thoma

AICP
Director of Resilience
Rosy Thakur

Director of Finance
Grace Dials

RLA
Director of Design Management
Kaleen Juarez

RLA, WEDG
Director
William Tietje

RLA, WEDG
Technical Director
Kate Hayes

RLA
Studio Director
Amanda Huhn

Director of Marketing
Jennifer Schecter

Director of Business Development
Will Klassen

Chief of Staff
Meghann Dubie

Senior Operations Manager
Todd Mead

RLA, LEED AP
Senior Technical Lead
Scott Goodrich

RLA
Senior Technical Lead
Linh Kim Pham

RLA
Senior Associate
Grace Prem

RLA, WEDG
Senior Associate
Sylvia Barnett

RLA
Senior Associate
Alaleh Rouhi

Senior Associate
Julia Howe

RLA
Senior Associate
Kal O’Leary

Senior Associate
Daniel Hernandez

RLA
Senior Associate
Greta Ruedisueli

RLA
Senior Associate
Shuang Shuang Wu

RLA
Senior Associate
Zi Gu

RLA, ASLA
Senior Associate
Tal Fuerst

WEDG
Senior Associate
John Rabago

RLA
Senior Associate
Arthur Pérez

Senior Associate
Rikerrious Geter

LEED Green
Associate
Kirk Gordon, RLA

Associate
Lindsey White

Associate

Danny Berdichevsky

RLA
Associate
Andrew Wright

RLA
Associate
Danny Rose

RLA
Associate
Jessica Arias

RLA, WEDG
Associate
Alyson Demskie

Associate

Gabrielle Rashleigh

Associate

Lena Smart

Associate

Nathalie Mitchell

Associate

Ciara Stein

Associate

Shira Grosman

RLA, WEDG
Associate
Aaron King

RLA, LEED GA
Associate
Grace Suthata Jiranuntarat

WEDG
Senior Designer
Xueyang Huang

WEDG
Senior Designer
Molly Davis

RLA, WEDG
Senior Designer
Joanne Li

RLA, WEDG
Senior Designer
Rodrigo Yárritu

Senior Designer

Peixuan Wu

RLA, WEDG
Senior Designer
Caroline Fitzpatrick

Senior Designer

Kelly Zhan

WEDG
Senior Designer
Quanjiang Li

Senior Designer

Bom Phituksithkasem

Senior Designer
Miles Hamaker

Senior Designer

Natalie Boverman

Senior Designer

Graham Davidson

Office & HR Manager

Hana Estice

Communications Manager
Erin Sheehy

Marketing Coordinator

Vaibhav Gurung

Designer

Robert L. Joseph

Design Coordinator

Olivia Canady

Studio Assistant, New York

Raka Mukherjee

Studio & Accounting Assistant, San Francisco

Kai Davis

Studio Assistant, New Orleans

Jessy Rojas Güere

WEDG
Designer
Max Eckhardt

RLA
Designer
Caz Gagné

Designer

Jonathan Boyce

WEDG
Designer
Chadwick Bowlin

Designer

Kate Gliniak

Designer

Candelaria Gassiebayle

WEDG
Designer
Jade Rhodes

Designer

Isabella Simões

Designer

Jenna Wu

WEDG
Designer
Olivia Reichert

Designer

Abigail MacPhee

Designer

Nick Gray

Designer

Yuqing Zhang

LEED GA
Designer

Yuehui Gong

Designer

Gena Wirth

FASLA, RLA
Design Principal, Partner

Gena translates research into practice, shaping the design vision for projects informed by ecological and cultural expression.

Gena Wirth, RLA, FASLA, is Design Principal and Partner at SCAPE. She works with cities, community advocates and landowners to reveal the immense ecological and cultural potential of public landscapes.

As Design Principal, Gena translates research into practice, leading the design and implementation of complex, multi-stakeholder landscapes—including public and private waterfronts, regional trail systems, parks, plazas and climate adaptation plans. Within SCAPE, Gena leads firm-wide design standards, ensuring excellence from concept through construction, and serves as Principal-in-Charge for a wide range of projects across the U.S. spanning typologies and scales.

Gena is also a tenacious advocate for ecological systems design across the design fields—both as a member of the Dredge Research Collaborative, a non-profit group, and through past teaching positions at Harvard, Columbia, Syracuse and Rutgers. She also serves on SCAPE’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEIC), helping advance the firm’s commitments to social and racial justice within our work and throughout the field. She holds a Master’s in Landscape Architecture and Master of Urban Planning with Distinction from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University and a Bachelor’s in Horticulture from the University of Delaware.

Credentials

Registered Landscape Architect (RLA): New York, Arkansas, Massachusetts

Academic

Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Department of Landscape Architecture, 2021

Visiting Critic, Syracuse University, School of Architecture, 2016 & 2018

Lecturer, Rutgers University, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences, 2012

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation (GSAPP), 2010 – 2013

Board & Advisory Roles

Member, Dredge Research Collaborative

Board, Awesome Newburgh Foundation

Select Awards

National Design Award, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2019

Fast Company: Innovation By Design Award Finalist – Spaces and Places, “Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center,” 2021

ASLA-NY: Honor Award – Analysis, Planning, Research & Communications, “The Chattahoochee RiverLands,” 2021

ASLA-NY: Merit Award – General Design, “Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center,” 2021

ASLA Florida: Honor Award – Analysis & Planning, “McCoy’s Creek Recreation & Restoration Plan,” 2021

ASLA Kentucky: Merit Award – Analysis & Planning, “The Chattahoochee RiverLands,” 2021

ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – Analysis & Planning, “Public Sediment for Alameda Creek,” 2019

The Architect’s Newspaper: Best of Design, Honor Award – Unbuilt (Cultural), “Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts,” 2019

ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – Communications, “DredgeFest Event Series,” 2016