Meet our leadership team:
Our goal is to provide clients with a level of personal commitment and company reliability not found elsewhere. Together with our Senior Associates and technical and operational professionals, we are always aspiring to enhance our capabilities so we can better serve our clients’ needs.
Meet our technical and operational professionals:
The Ascent in-house team consists of many devoted professionals who are more than just highly qualified and competent environmental, planning, urban design, natural resources, and climate change consultants. These environmental professionals also believe in the firm’s basic values and contribute strongly every day to making Ascent a caring, nimble, supportive, forward-thinking, enjoyable, and original company.
Adriana Alba
Proposal Manager
Corey Alling
Graphics and
Communications Specialist
Carlos Alvarado
Wildlife Biologist
Jazmin Amini
Transportation and
Environmental Planner
Dimitri Antoniou, AICP
Air Quality, Climate Change,
and Noise Specialist
Saba Asghary
Environmental Planner
Jessica Babcock
Environmental Planner
Christine Babla, AIA, AICP, LEED AP
Director of Urban Design
and Planning, San Diego
Sean Bechta
Senior Environmental
Project Manager
Chad Beckstrom, AICP
Senior Environmental Director
Tammie Beyerl
Senior Botanist and
Wetland Ecologist
Joshua Boldt
Senior Biologist
Lily Bostrom
Senior Environmental Planner
Lisa Bradford
Project Accountant
Stacey Bradford
Senior Lead Project Accountant
Pam Brillante
Biologist
Jessica Buehrle
Human Resources Assistant
Monica Bustos
Administrative Assistant
Latonya Carson
Project Accountant
Alta Cunningham
Architectural Historian/
Environmental Planner
Mike Eng
Senior Natural Resources Specialist
Suzanne Enslow
Senior Project Manager
Tristan Evert
Environmental Planner
Jim Foust
Marketing Coordinator
Allison Fuller
Wildlife Biologist
Matthew Gelbman, AICP
Planner
Heidi Gen Kuong, AICP
Urban Planner/
Project Manager
Nicole Greenfield
Environmental Planner
Steve Henderson
Senior Wildlife Biologist
Tasha Hengl
Contracts Administrator
Sarah Henningsen
Environmental Planner
Shannon Hickey
Botanist and
Wetland Ecologist
Nirmeen Hijjawi
Administrative Assistant
Brenda C. Hom
Air Quality and
Climate Change Specialist
Shaurya Johari
Climate Change Analyst
Kelley Kelso, CPESC
Environmental Scientist
Christine Kenney
Marketing Manager
Jamie Kirchner
Administrative Assistant
Hannah Kornfeld, AICP
Air Quality and
Climate Change Specialist
Tanya Jones
Senior Environmental Planner
Rachel Kozloski, CPSS
Soil Scientist/
Environmental Planner
Gayiety Lane
Document Production Specialist
Sangwoo Lee, AICP, LEED AP
Senior Urban Designer
Adam Lewandowski, AICP
Senior Project Manager
Erin Longo
Senior Project Accountant
Marianne Lowenthal
Environmental Planner
Tiffany Lunday
Environmental Planner
Grace Mannell
Environmental Planner
Andrew Martin
Senior Environmental Planner
Michele Mattei
Document Production Specialist
Jim Merk
Editor/Project Coordinator
Lisa Merry
GIS Specialist/
Resource Analyst
Zachary Miller, AICP
Transportation and
Environmental Planner
Jessica Mitchell, AICP
Environmental Planner
Chelsey Payne, AICP
Director of Urban Design
and Planning, Sacramento
Phi V. Ngo
GIS Specialist/
Resource Analyst
Brian Perry
Senior Publications
and Graphics Specialist
Rebecca Pope
Planner
Fred Pree
Senior Lead Project Accountant
Tracy Prybyla, PACE
Office Administrator
Lara Rachowicz, PhD
Senior Environmental Project Manager/Senior Ecologist
Cori Resha, JD
Environmental Planner
Charlie Richmond
Senior Environmental
Director
Sam Ruderman
Climate Change Analyst
Christy Ryan, CPSM
Marketing Director
Sonam Sahu, PhD
Climate Change Analyst
Parminder Sarow
Project Accountant
John Singlaub
Senior Environmental Planner
Andrea Shephard, PhD
Senior Environmental Project Manager
John Steponick
Climate Change Analyst
Kristen Stoner
Environmental Project Manager
Anh Thai, LEED AP
Senior Planner and
Urban Designer
Ted Thayer
Wildlife Biologist
Kim Untermoser
Planner
Malavika Vinod
Urban Designer
Kathie Washington
Senior Environmental Planner
Hannah Weinberger
Biologist
Julia Wilson
Air Quality and
Climate Change Specialist
Suzanne Wirth
Marketing Administrator
Emilie Zelazo
Environmental Planner/
Cultural Resource
Specialist