Kristen is an Associate Director of the San Francisco office. With her macro-to-micro approach, Kristen provides big-picture guidance for large scale masterplans and detailed analysis including daylight optimization and innovative materials on the building scale.

Kristen has successfully led some of the firm’s most ambitious and complex projects including the carbon neutral and mass timber campus for the California College of the Arts Unified Campus in San Francisco, the LEED Platinum 2020 Project at the University of California Merced, and the Potrero Power Station which is transforming a formerly polluting power plant into a healthy and sustainable community.

Beyond projects, Kristen runs Atelier Ten’s Carbon Management practice and is an integral part of the firm’s Master planning practice. She has taught Architectural Design and Environmental Systems and Controls at the University of Oregon and Cornell University.