Eri is an urbanist with a strong belief that collective design can be an agent of positive change in our evolving society. While her projects at SITELAB range in scale from a stretch of sidewalk to a neighborhood, she embraces the complexities of designing public spaces and setting a stage for public life.

At SITELAB, Eri leads multi-disciplinary planning processes toward entitlement for some of the firm’s largest projects such as Pier 70 Waterfront Redevelopment (28-acre mixed-use development at a former historic shipyard) and San José Downtown West (80-acre transit-oriented development at Diridon Station). Other projects include more tactical urban design responses to today’s critical issues: helping LavaMaeˣ realize a Pop-up Care Village that mobilized the community to bring care services to the streets in San Francisco and re-examining the role of the public realm in the post-pandemic recovery for the Downtown San Francisco Public Realm Action Plan.

Eri is a licensed architect (Texas) with Masters in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University and Bachelor of Architecture with a minor in Landscape Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is a co-chair for the SPUR Planning and Architecture Council.