As Senior Research Associate, Jonah works to build and expand disciplinary knowledge across complex topics including wildfire risk mitigation, coastal resilience, urban adaptation, and regional land management within the contexts of accelerated climate change and urbanization. He has taught at MIT and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and lectured at Universities around the world including the University of Pennsylvania, Northeastern University, the University of British Columbia, and Istanbul Technical University. His essays have appeared in books and journals including Designing With Nature Now (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial (Actar), Harvard Design Magazine, LA+, and Journal of Landscape Architecture. Before joining SWA and XL Lab in 2020, Jonah directed multiscalar urban research at the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT. He holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the GSD, where his thesis on urban timber management won an ASLA Honor Award. He also holds a BFA in critical visual studies from Pratt Institute.

Design With Nature Now, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (2019)

Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial, Actar (2019)

Hot, Dry, Burnt: Adapting to Climate Change in the American West, ASLA National Conference (2024)