Sara Zewde

Sara Zewde, Principal and Assistant Professor, Studio Zewde and Harvard University, New York City, USA

Sara Zewde is founding principal of Studio Zewde, a design firm in New York City practicing landscape, urbanism, and public art. Named to Architectural Digest's AD100, an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, and a Best New Practice by ArchDaily, the firm is celebrated for its design methods that sync culture, ecology, and craft. In parallel with practice, Sara serves as Assistant Professor of Practice at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is currently writing a book on her research retracing Frederick Law Olmsted's journeys through the Slave South. Sara holds a master’s of landscape architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a master’s of city planning from MIT, and a BA in sociology and statistics from Boston University.