Jeri Oka

Prior to joining JERDE as a design principal in 2006, Jeri was the firm's go-to landscape consultant for nearly 20 years. As a key design principal for JERDE, Jeri brings a wealth of creative knowledge related to urban mixed-use environments and spatial design. She leads the firms urbanCORE™ group responsible for project pre-design, programming, and repositioning. Her strong understanding of soft programming and placemaking, coupled with extensive expertise in site planning and landscape design, provide her with a special ability to integrate high level experiential qualities with the pragmatic requirements of a project into innovative design solutions.