Team

We’re a collaborative practice.

Sarah Kuehl
FOUNDER

Sarah wrote her college thesis on graffiti writers. She remains passionate about cities, teenagers, and art. She is very interested in the overlap of conceptual ideas with both social and physical realities.

Liz Einwiller
FOUNDER

Liz’s childhood was spent building structures in her mother’s garden. She loves plants, color, and popular culture. Her keen visual skills translate to an insatiable curiosity for exploring how to make things.

Gisela Steber
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Gisela was trained as an architect in Germany. She now brings her wisdom and experience in structures to her landscape design work with both affection and enviable rigor. She's also an incredible but modest baker.

Driven by a fascination with form, function, and processes that change them over time, Whitney found landscape architecture through a background in the biological sciences plus a passion for ceramic arts. She still occasionally throws pots and fires kilns.

Whitney Stewart
SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Lauren McClure
SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Lauren is mindful of creating engaging inter-generational designs in public spaces and believes that the ability to play is an important component of urban life. She enjoys living in the Bay and taking advantage of the diversity of ecosystems and weather nearby.

Junpei Asai
ASSOCIATE

Junpei is a hot spring hunter, passionate soccer player, and casual bonsaist. Having grown up in a hilly suburb in Japan, he is fascinated by landscapes that express a local way of living. His particular interest on unique communal water use/design led him travel across villages in Japan and the world. 

Alex is an illustrator, wildlife enthusiast, and avid soccer fan. His background in conservation and years of nature interpretation work informs his drive to embed educational moments in his designs.

Alex Broad
ASSOCIATE

Claire Geneste
ASSOCIATE

Claire’s background is in art history, public art programming, and the restaurant industry. These threads have informed her passion for landscape architecture, cultural history, and learning about the personal connections we have to the world around us.

Riley Jiang
DESIGNER

Riley's teenage years were filled with sketching and watercolor painting. Now, as a practicing landscape designer, her artistic eye is captivated by every detail, texture, and pattern—both in her drawings and in the physical world. With a background in Anthropology, Riley emphasizes the profound influence of cultural awareness and humanism in shaping the urban landscapes we inhabit.

Amber Menzies
STUDIO DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Amber studied art history and practiced residential garden design before arriving at EinwillerKuehl.   Hailing from NYC, she is a lifelong admirer of urban open space and finds joy in discovering the wildlife, natural rhythms and green spaces that exist within the city.  When not at work, she can often be found hiking in the East Bay hills with her family.

Past EK team members:

  • Alex Schuknecht

  • Alyson Fussel

  • Caitlin Kenney

  • Chelsea DeWitt

  • Clare Al-Witri

  • Dasha Lebedeva

  • Fiwasewa Ogundipe

  • Geo Mayne

  • Jenika Florence

  • Kari Tsubota

  • Kuan Gao

  • Leen Shamlati

  • Lisa Daye

  • Rebecca Ewing

  • Sam Gebb

  • Taylor Price

Past EK interns:

  • Aaron Beattie

  • Aashka Patel

  • Anna Cich

  • Bingyao Zhu

  • Celeste Gonzalez

  • Claire Adams

  • Dana Tinio

  • Danica Bowers

  • Emma Oppen

  • Florence Basile

  • Gina Lee

  • Gitanjali Matthes

  • Grace Rogers

  • Isra Fakhruddin

  • Ivy Wang

  • Julia Prince

  • Kari Roynesdal

  • Kate Latimore

  • Laura MacKenzie

  • Lex Lesley

  • Lydia Huitong Li

  • Marco Sanchez

  • Mia Arrusa

  • Michelle Hoge

  • Nicholas Pertz-Kelly

  • Olivia Reichert

  • Sam Green

  • Sophie Muschel-Horton

  • Will Napier

  • Xitong He

  • Xinyi Li

  • Xinyu Wang

  • Zhilu Wang