Sarah is a licensed landscape architect and urban designer, and follows the belief that opportunity in the landscape exists at the intersection of built and natural environments. She brings the design and management experience that has led to many of our firm’s award-winning projects. Sarah has worked with Bionic for over a decade and brings expertise to projects in the early stages of conceptualization, entitlements, project management, and community engagement. She has an analytical approach and developed expertise for graphically and verbally communicating complex landscape and urban design concepts to clients, communities, and agencies. As an Associate Principal and project leader at Bionic, Sarah is involved in the project management, entitlement, design and technical execution of a wide variety of projects including the design of public parks, workplaces, green roofs, plazas, streetscapes, waterfronts, public access sites, urban wastewater facilities, and residential properties. In every project, she demonstrates a unique ability to gather competing interests from stakeholders through creative engagement platforms and create a shared vision. Her focus on strategy and clearly communicating goals and ambitions helps clients navigate complex projects through entitlements and delivery. Sarah has been leading resilience projects and community engagement for design and planning projects in the Bay Area for over a decade. Sarah was the project manager for the India Basin Waterfront Park, a 27 acre waterfront park and mixed-use development in San Francisco. She also led a large multi-disciplinary team for the Resilient By Design Bay Area Challenge to develop a resilience vision for the City of San Rafael including an extensive community engagement process, for which Bionic received a 2019 ASLA national award. Sarah has been recognized as an up-and-coming designer for her urban design proposals and was selected as a Curbed Young Guns Finalist. She was awarded the SPUR Piero N. Patri Fellowship to pursue her public open space network proposal for the Southeastern Waterfront of San Francisco. Her thinking as a landscape strategist has been published in Landscape Architecture Magazine, the University of Pennsylvania’s Scenario Journal, Built Environment, and Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions.
