Yuliya de la Calle
Yuliya is an experienced and award-winning lighting designer with over 10 years of experience. Over her career, Yuliya has worked on more than 100 lighting and daylighting projects, including for large corporations such as IBM, Salesforce and Sixty Hotel, renowned art centers and fairs like the Venice Architectural Biennale, MoMA PS1 New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as for major public infrastructure such as the Seattle and San Francisco airports and the Lowline in New York. For more details on Yuliya’s key projects, please click here.
Prior to founding Station 22, Yuliya was a Senior Consultant for six years at Arup, a global leading services firm in design, engineering, architecture and planning. At Arup, Yuliya led multiple client accounts as a project manager and also contributed to the internal R&D program by researching lighting design within the circular economy and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals framework.
Before focusing on lighting, Yuliya was an architect at Steven Holl Architects in New York, working on Ex of In House and T space in Hudson Valley, NY, and multiple competitions worldwide.
As a result of her broad and diverse background within the built environment, Yuliya is enabled to oversee and collaborate throughout all phases of design: from concept to commissioning, all while combining fundamental sustainability practices and a unique artistic perspective.
Yuliya has a dual-master’s degree in Architecture and Lighting Design from Parsons the New School for Design, New York, and was a recipient of a fully-funded Dean’s scholarship. She also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Spatial Design from Samara State University. Yuliya is also a certified LEED AP.
Jenny Werbell
Jenny Werbell joined Station 22 in early 2024 working with Yuliya to open, and then run the New York studio. Jenny has over 10 years of professional experience as a lighting designer, with several award winning projects spanning the globe, and has worked in a wide range of project typologies, and at all scales, from education and higher education, to places of worship, commercial, retail, museums and galleries, residential, multi-use residential, and government buildings.
Jenny is passionate about both electric lighting design and daylighting design. She began her lighting design career at Buro Happold Engineering, where she performed daylight studies and analysis to inform architectural decisions for aesthetic effects as well as optimizing daylight autonomy of interior spaces during the day. Her daylight studies have also informed art and exhibition conservation and shading for thermal and visual comfort.
Jenny went on to work at WeWork in the internal lighting design team. She was on the Global Lighting team to set design standards for all WeWork’s across the globe, holding weekly meetings with the lighting heads in each global office. She was also the designer or co-designer for WeWork’s headquarters in New York, San Francisco and London. Jenny went on to collaborate with several design firms, Silver Shoe Design, James Clotfelter Lighting Design, and Derek Porter Studio, before joining Essential Light Design Studio in 2022 as director of the New York Studio. Since 2021, Jenny has been the outreach coordinator at Light Reach, a large-scale, multi-program and global solar lighting initiative designed to scale-up social action in the field of lighting design and fight light poverty around the world.
Prior to becoming a lighting designer, Jenny had a career in museum and gallery exhibtions. She worked at the Jewish Museum for 5 years in the education and curatorial publications departments. She then transitioned as a graphic designer, providing logos and branding, exhibition text design and marketing materials. While at Parsons, she co-curated an exhibit “Cambodia: Drop by Drop You Will Feel the Water” and was the exhibition designer for the Parsons annual alumni exhibition in 2013.
In 2017, Jenny was named a Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Emerging Leader. She has spoken at several lighting conferences in her hometown New York City, as well as globally in Scotland, France, and most recently in Canada.
Jenny has double masters of fine arts degrees in Lighting Design and Interior Design from Parsons the New School for Design, New York, and was a recipient of the Victoria Hagan scholarship. She as a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology from Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Since graduating from Parsons, Jenny has taught lighting design at Parsons at the graduate and undergraduate level.
Jenny lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, John and their two young children, Maxine and Lou.
Paula Castillo
Paula brings over a decade of experience in architectural lighting, combining design precision with an artistic sensitivity to light and space. She began her career at Cooley Monato Studio, advancing from designer to senior role, leading large-scale projects including high-end residential and hospitality developments, historic restorations such as the lobby at Rockefeller Center, and luxury retail flagships for Chanel, Balenciaga, and other global brands. She later collaborated with Flux Studio, designing residences, workspaces, galleries, and cultural landmarks such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Memorial to the Enslaved in Williamsburg.
Alongside her architectural practice, Paula creates independent light-art installations that explore the material and emotional presence of light — its ability to shape perception, connect people to place, and reveal the natural rhythms of the world.
Paula holds an MFA in Lighting Design from Parsons School of Design at The New School and a BA in Theater Design from the University of Chile. Before relocating to New York, she worked in Santiago as a lighting and set designer for theater, television, film, and photography, with early works exhibited across Chile, North America, and Europe.
Emiliana Medina
Emiliana brings a balance of technical precision and creative sensitivity to her work. Originally from Medellín, Colombia, she is based in Luxembourg, where she contributes to Station22’s projects across Europe and the United States.
With a background in electrical engineering and architectural lighting design, Emiliana combines deep technical knowledge with a thoughtful approach to atmosphere and context. Before joining Station22, she worked with Affiliated Engineers Inc. (AEI) in Chicago, contributing to large-scale projects including hospitals, higher education facilities, and commercial developments.
Emiliana holds a Master’s in Architectural Lighting Design and Design Management from Hochschule Wismar in Germany and a Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Having lived and worked across three continents, she brings a multicultural perspective that unites engineering rigor with an understanding of how culture and emotion shape the experience of light.