2019 Promotions
Please join us in congratulating our newly promoted leaders, whose design ingenuity and industriousness advances SWA’s purpose: designing for a more livable world.
Our people are continually looking for ways to infuse their work with new ideas: orchestrating land uses that reduce transportation costs, making high-density projects livable; integrating architecture with the landscape to optimize the use and cost of water, energy, and other resources; creating green environments that provide social amenities; and conserving natural open space and habitat for future generations.
Meet our newly promoted leaders below, and see how SWA’s commitment to resilience plays out in their daily lives.
![promo enviroment BILL](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30235731/promo-enviroment-BILL-01_web.jpg)
NEW PRINCIPALS
![Artboard-1](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233200/Artboard-1-150x150.jpg)
Dhaval Barbhaya
Laguna Beach, CA
M.Arch + Urban Design, Washington University B.Arch, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT)
![Artboard-2](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233203/Artboard-2-150x150.jpg)
Leah Hales
Dallas, TX
BLA, University of Arkansas
NEW ASSOCIATE PRINCIPALS
![Artboard-3](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233206/Artboard-3-150x150.jpg)
Zane Busbee
Designer, Dallas, TX
BLA, Louisiana State University
![Artboard-5](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233213/Artboard-5-150x150.jpg)
Steven Lee
Designer, New York, NY
MLA +M.City Planning, UC Berkeley
![Artboard-7](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233219/Artboard-7-150x150.jpg)
Sergio Lima
Designer, Sausalito, CA
M.Arch,+ B.Arch., Università Degli Studi, Palermo
![Artboard-9](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233227/Artboard-9-150x150.jpg)
Michael Robinson
Designer, Houston, TX
M.Arch, Rice University
BLA + B.Env Design (Arch), NC State University
![Artboard-11](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233235/Artboard-11-150x150.jpg)
Peiwen Yu
Designer, Houston, TX
MLA, Texas A&M University
BArch + MUP, Tsinghua University, Beijing
![Artboard-4](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233210/Artboard-4-150x150.jpg)
Zachary Davis
Designer, Sausalito, CA
BLA, Pennsylvania State University
![Artboard-6](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233216/Artboard-6-150x150.jpg)
Woonghee Lee
Designer, Los Angeles, CA
M.Arch, University of California, Los Angeles
![Artboard-8](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233223/Artboard-8-150x150.jpg)
Haifeng Ren
Designer, Shanghai
BLA, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
![Artboard-10](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233231/Artboard-10-150x150.jpg)
Stephen Rydzon
Designer, Laguna Beach, CA
BLA, Colorado State University
![Artboard-12](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233238/Artboard-12-150x150.jpg)
Yang Zhang
Designer, Sausalito, CA
MLA, Harvard GSD
B.Eng + BA, Tsinghua University, Beijing
NEW ASSOCIATES
![Artboard-13](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233243/Artboard-13-150x150.jpg)
Shih-Chia Chiu
Designer, Laguna Beach, CA
MLA, University of Washington
![Artboard-15](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233249/Artboard-15-150x150.jpg)
Jacob Galles
Designer, Houston, TX
BSLA, Purdue University
![Artboard-17](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233255/Artboard-17-150x150.jpg)
Jennifer Hung
Marketing Manager, San Francisco, CA
20+ Years’ Industry Experience
![Artboard-19](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233302/Artboard-19-150x150.jpg)
Evan Lee
Designer, Laguna Beach, CA
BSLA, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
![Artboard-21](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233309/Artboard-21-150x150.jpg)
Tony Lopez
Designer, Los Angeles, CA
BLA, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
![Artboard-23](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233317/Artboard-23-150x150.jpg)
Darren Sharkey
Designer, Houston, TX
BLA, Louisiana State University
![Artboard-26](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233329/Artboard-26-150x150.jpg)
Ben Waldo
Designer, San Francisco, CA
MLA, UC Berkeley;
B.Arch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
![Artboard-27](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233332/Artboard-27-150x150.jpg)
Bingyao Zhu
Designer, San Francisco, CA
MLA, UC Berkeley
![Artboard-14](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233246/Artboard-14-150x150.jpg)
Garett Dietrich
Designer, Houston, TX
BSLA, University of Wisconsin, Madison
![Artboard-16](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233252/Artboard-16-150x150.jpg)
Xiao Hu
Designer, Laguna Beach, CA
MLA, Cornell University
BLA, Purdue University
![Artboard-18](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233258/Artboard-18-150x150.jpg)
Lovisa Kjerrgren
Designer, Laguna Beach, CA
BLA + MLA, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
![Artboard-20](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233306/Artboard-20-150x150.jpg)
Jing Lei
Designer, Laguna Beach, CA
MLA, Texas A&M University
BLA+MA (Arts in Design), Renmin University of China
![Artboard-22](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233312/Artboard-22-150x150.jpg)
Mariana Ricker
Designer, San Francisco, CA
BLA, UC Berkeley
![Artboard-24](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233321/Artboard-24-150x150.jpg)
Lin Tang
Designer, San Francisco, CA
M.Urban Design, Savannah College of Art and Design
BLA, China Agricultural University
![Artboard-25](https://swacdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30233324/Artboard-25-150x150.jpg)
Dan Vasquez
Production Manager, R&D, and Training, Sausalito, CA
BA, Media Studies and Architecture, SFSU