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

Pippa Brashear

RLA, WEDG
Resilience Principal, Partner

Pippa brings technical rigor and innovation to planning, climate adaptation and landscape infrastructure projects across scales.

Pippa Brashear, RLA, WEDG, is Resilience Principal and Partner at SCAPE. A leading national expert on resilience planning and design for climate adaptation, Pippa works with multi-disciplinary teams to develop landscape strategies and next-century infrastructure that integrate environmental, economic and social benefits. She leads both planning and built work teams within the firm, bringing an ecological and people-driven approach to SCAPE’s projects—informed by systems thinking; an understanding of natural and nature-based systems; engineering methods; and social and environmental equity.

Pippa holds a Master’s in Landscape Architecture and Master’s in Urban Planning with Distinction from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University. She also holds a Bachelor’s of Arts, cum laude, in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College.

Credentials

Registered Landscape Architect (RLA): New York

Waterfront Edge Design Guideline (WEDG) Associate, The Waterfront Alliance

Affiliations

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

American Planning Association (APA)

Select Awards

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

Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA): Merit Award – Analysis & Planning, “Climate Ready Dorchester,” 2021

ASLA-SoCal: Honor Award – Analysis & Planning, “Hayward Regional Shoreline Adaptation Master Plan,” 2021

ASLA-NY: Honor Award – Analysis, Planning, Research & Communications, “Public Sediment for Alameda Creek,” 2019

American Academy of Arts & Letters: National Planning Achievement Award – Environmental Planning, “Living Breakwaters,” 2015