Gena Wirth is a designer, urban planner, and horticulturalist. She pulls from her interdisciplinary training to create ecologically rich and culturally relevant landscapes from the infrastructural scale to the site level. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Urban Planning from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Gena serves as a project manager and lead designer for office projects that bridge research and practice, such as the Columbia University Medical and Graduate Education Building Landscape, PAVE Academy, the forthcoming publication Petrochemical America, and the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Oyster-tecture. She has taught landscape at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Harvard GSD Career Discovery. Her independent research includes a study of the hydro-infrastructure of the Colorado River Basin as a recipient of the Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship in 2009.