Team - Agency Landscape + Planning

Gina Ford, FASLA

Principal Landscape Architect

Gina Ford is a landscape architect, co-founder and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. Underpinning her two decades of practice are a commitment to the design and planning of public places and the perpetuation of the value of landscape architecture via thought leadership, teaching, writing and lecturing. Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects, among others. She is on the board of directors for the Cultural Landscape Foundation and was the recipient of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship and Wellesley College’s Shaw Fellowship. Download CV. gina@agencylp.com

Brie Hensold

Principal Urban Planner

Brie Hensold is an urban planner, co-founder and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. With a passion for understanding and improving communities and places, Brie brings a systems-based approach that integrates multiple disciplines and celebrates diverse perspectives. She has extensive experience developing creative and meaningful community engagement processes for planning and design projects. Brie’s experience encompasses multiple scales, from downtown plans to citywide park systems to resilience strategies. Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects, among others. She co-teaches an executive education class in resilient cities at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Download CV. brie@agencylp.com

Rhiannon Sinclair

Senior Urban Planner

An urban planner with a background in architecture, Rhiannon Sinclair's work focuses on complex urban systems across multiple scales. She uses data-driven strategies to better understand and enhance the relationship between people, buildings, systems and the public realm. Rhiannon has considerable experience communicating information to broad audiences to promote strong community exchange and empowerment within a planning process. In her work, she finds that the role of this type of exchange and master plan facilitation contributes to plans that are visionary, comprehensive, and implementable. Download CV. rhiannon@agencylp.com

Eamonn Hutton

Senior Landscape Architect

Eamonn Hutton is a landscape architect with experience designing public landscapes at multiple scales. Eamonn has contributed design, planning, and research to a variety urban projects, including built landscapes and strategic parks master planning. He has a particular interest in the design of urban public spaces through an engaged public process and the role of technology in innovative spatial planning. Download CV. eamonn@agencylp.com

Susannah Ross

Senior Landscape Architect

Susannah is a landscape architect with experience managing complex urban landscape design and construction. Susannah is passionate about the design of public open spaces in urban settings. She enjoys exploring the potential of landscape design to enrich the daily life, health and well-being of both city dwellers and urban ecology, as well as to shape the core identity of a city. She welcomes the challenge of designing to meet the needs of a diverse set of interests in a complex physical context. Download CV. susannah@agencylp.com

Matthew Macchietto

Landscape Architect

Matthew Macchietto is a landscape architect who is passionate about how newly migrated cultural groups perceive, influence, and relate to public space. His research and field work aims to start a conversation between disciplines on how to design community open space to be more sensitive, welcoming, and adaptable to cultural and economic change. Matthew's work has won awards and recognition from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Urban Land Institute, the Society for College and University Planning, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was the recipient of Harvard’s Peter Walker and Partner’s Fellowship/Travel Prize. Download CV. matthew@agencylp.com.

Xi Yang

Landscape Designer

Xi Yang is a landscape designer with academic and practice experience in various regions of the United States and Asia. As a designer, she is interested in public engagement, environmental psychology and ecology. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she explored design and building processes in close collaboration with communities from diverse cultures. Xi is originally from China and spends her free time exploring psychology, anatomy, drums and local nurseries.

Tatyana Vashchenko

Landscape Designer

Tatyana Vashchenko is a landscape designer passionate about the intersection between urban placemaking, ecological design, community engagement and environmental stewardship. She leverages her background in horticulture, ecosystem management, and landscape architecture to help create visions and places that are flexible, legible and performative. A graduate of the University of Washington, outside of practice, she is an avid plant enthusiast, meticulous crafter and obsessive knitter.

Leah Grossman

Landscape Designer

Leah Grossman is a landscape designer who believes in the power in landscape architecture to create spaces that respond to their setting and address ecological and social issues in a positive, productive way. A recent graduate from the University of Virginia, she approaches each site with respect for its past, a strong vision for its future, and consideration for all its users. With a background in non-profit work, Leah has a drive to work with community stakeholders and provide a gateway for individuals to enact change within their physical community.

Elaine Forbush

Urban Strategist

Elaine Forbush is an urban planner and strategist who is interested in ecologically and socially resilient communities. With a background in environmental policy, she works at the intersection of data analysis, visualization, and community engagement. At Middlebury College, Elaine did research on climate migration and dabbled in computer science and cartography. Outside of work, you can find her biking, experimenting with farm share veggies, and learning Russian on Duolingo.

Elsa Mark-Ng

Studio Manager

Elsa is a recent honors graduate of Oberlin College's Environmental Studies program with interests in urban planning and design, landscape architecture, art history, the visual arts, and urban sustainability. At Oberlin College, Elsa did research on how public environmental art can increase a community’s sense of place. At Agency, she assists the studio with office, business and marketing support and leads our communication and social media. In her free time, you can find her making art, reading about trees, and biking around Cambridge.

Juan Reynoso

Planning Intern

Juan Reynoso is an urban planner with a background in public health. He is passionate about the intersection of climate resilience, environmental justice, and healthy cities. Juan is currently pursuing a joint Masters of Urban Planning and Masters of Public Health at Harvard University. A Stanford University graduate and a Southern California native, he enjoys running, bicycling, and reading in parks.