Sarah Kennedy brings more than 14 years of architectural experience focused on multifamily and mixed-use residential environments, including affordable, market-rate, student, and senior housing communities across the West Coast and Canada. As a housing advocate, her work advances housing solutions that balance livability, affordability, sustainability, and thoughtful urban integration.

At SCB, Sarah supports the planning and delivery of complex residential projects, guiding teams through design coordination and technical execution while helping clients navigate evolving market and regulatory conditions. Her portfolio includes a variety of mixed-use communities including high-rise urban towers, affordable housing, senior housing, and large-scale campus housing developments, many pursuing ambitious sustainability goals including LEED, GreenPoint, Green Globes, mass timber construction, and net-zero energy performance.

Her hallmark projects include Woolsey Gardens in Berkeley California, an affordable housing community designed to be net-zero energy, built with mass timber construction, and targeting LEED Platinum. This project has been recognized through the Softwood Lumber Board and USDA Forest Service Mass Timber Competition for advancing net-zero carbon design and the California Energy Commission’s The Next EPIC Challenge: Reimagining Affordable Mixed-Use Development in a Carbon-Constrained Future. Other notable projects include 1360 Vine in Los Angeles, Wilshire Courtyards in Los Angeles, One Oak in San Francisco, 27^th and Tschache in Bozeman Montana, Wilburton Master Plan in Bellevue Washington, and 1687 Market Street in San Francisco, providing dedicated performing arts program and affordable artist housing. 

Sarah is a licensed architect in California and is active in professional organizations including the American Institute of Architects, SPUR, NPH, and the Urban Land Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture with a Minor in Sustainable Environments degree from California Polytechnic State University.