Jennifer Brooks, Staff Designer

Jennifer Brooks joined the New York office in July 2009. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2002 from New York University’s College of Arts and Science in New York City with concentrations in Fine Arts and Urban Design and Architectural Studies. Her undergraduate honors thesis was entitled “America’s First Garden City: A Case Study of Sunnyside Gardens, Queens”. In 2007, she earned a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Among several honors, she garnered a Penny White travel award that took her to South America to study the transformation of indigenous landscape typologies due to tourism.

Jennifer has interned for several New York design and planning offices including Cynthia Steffe, Inc., Michael van Valkenburgh Associates, and the New York City Department of City Planning. She was a Community Design Fellow at New Yorkers for Parks where she designed a waterfront park at the street-end of Vernon Boulevard in Queens. Her proposal was featured in the exhibition Manufactured Ecology at the Industrial Edge at DaughterPride Gallery in Long Island City in 2007. Most recently, Jennifer worked for Hart Howerton in New York.

At NBW, she is currently working on a private residence in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of New York City, and a winery and organic farm in Healdsburg, California.