Students

I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of immensely talented graduate students at the University of California-Berkeley and University of Minnesota. Below is a selected list of former students and advisees, along with their current work affiliation.

Dr. Elizabeth Mattiuzzi, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank

Dr. Pedro Peterson, California Air Resources Board

Dr. Bill Lester, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Dr. Jake Wegmann, Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Austin
Dr. Anne Martin – Executive Director, House Rabbit Society
Dr. Emilio Martinez de Velasco Aguirre – Director, Regional Sureste, at CONACYT
Dr. Carrie Makarewicz, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado-Denver
Dr. Miriam Zuk, Enterprise Community Partners, Chicago
Dr. Renee Roy, University of California-Berkeley, Center for Community Innovation
Dr. Liang-Chih Chen, National Taiwan University
Dr. Yasuyuki Motoyama, Ohio State University
Dr. Lifang Chiang, UC Office of the President
Dr. Alvaro Huerta, Cal State Polytechnic – Pomona
Dr. Annelies Goger, Brookings Institution
Chris Andrews, MDG Associates, Inc.
Mason Austin, City of Philadelphia
Gene Barrera, County of Merced
Alex Brennan, Executive Director at Futurewise
Maria Agustina Calatayud, Inter-American Development Bank
Sean Campion, NYC Independent Budget Office
Andre Chan, Co-founder and CTO, SwayMe
Ener Chiu, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
Marcus Clarke, Community Actions Partnership of Sonoma County
Matt Chwierut, Smith + Crown
Tom Conoscenti , Two Trees Management Company
Nadya Chinoy Dabby, Education Consultant, FutureEd
Kat Daniel, Deputy Director, San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development

Colin Dentel-Post, San Francisco County Transportation Authority
Chandra Egan, San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing
Tiffany Eng, Grounded Solutions Network
John Francis, City of San Francisco
Connie Archbold Malloy, Executive Director, Panta Rhea Foundation
Jenny Gant, CIM Group
Kate Gordon, California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
Vinita Goyal Gupta, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Robert Hickey, Habitat for Humanity International
Eddie Janowicz, UrbanSim
Michael Katz, East Bay Works
Karla Kingsley, Portland Bureau of Transportation
Jordan Klein, City of Berkeley
Glynis L. Vitanza, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
Wells Lawson, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Alex Lantsberg, San Francisco Electrical Construction Industry
Matt Lewis, MidPen Housing Corporation
Hui-Chang Li, City of Oakland
Jess Lynch, Illinois Public Health Institute
Erin Machell, Toole Design Group
Charles Marohn, Strong Towns
Nina Bennett, HR&A Advisors
April Mo, MidPen Housing Corporaitn
Tessa Munekiyo Ng, Munekiyo Hiraga
Alison Nemirow, Strategic Economics
Noe Noyola, MIG
James Pappas, San Francisco Planning Department
Kristin Perkins, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at Georgetown University 
Ezra Pincus-Roth, Nelson Nygaard
Gia Pionek, Pionek Valle Law Group
Jennifer Phelps Quinn, Consultant
Divali Magnus, San Francisco Housing Action Coalition
Carrie Ridgeway, Cabrillo College
Antonio Rosell, Community Design Group
Gary Schiff, Council on Crime and Justice
Chris Schildt, PolicyLink
Jessica Sheldon, Resources for Community Development
Eric Simundza, City of Oakland
Alexis Smith, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Leah Stockstrom, CommonBond Communities
Kim Suczynski Smith, Pyatok Architects
Erica Spaid, Greater Ohio Policy Center
Jennifer Susskind, Independent Contractor
Michelle Thong, City of San Jose
Sarah Treuhaft, PolicyLink
Carlos Velasquez, KOA Corporation
Trina Walker, Alameda County
Elizabeth Wampler, San Francisco Foundation
Steve Wertheim, Policy Consultant, California State Assembly
Laura Wiles, State of New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Ella Wise, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Anja Wodsak, International Olympic Committee
Enoch Yeung, California Housing Finance Agency
Jessica Zdeb, Toole Design Group
Jessica Zenk, City of San Jose

Maura Baldiga, Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development

Alex Kowalski, PhD Student at MIT

Mar Velez, Congressional Aide at U.S. House of Representatives 

Sonia-Lynn Abenojar, Bridge Fellow, King County Bridge Fellowship Program

Rucker Alex, OneWater 

Carline Au, East Bay Economic Development Alliance

Carlo De La Cruz, Sierra Club

Tiffany Eng, California Environmental Justice Alliance

Chelsea Guerrero, BAE

Viviana Lopez, City and County of San Francisco

Rebecca Womack, Fair Districts PA

Alberto Benejam, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation

Sam Blanchard, UrbanSim

Mariana Blondet, UNDP Peru

Heather Bromfield, Strategic Economics

Genise Choy, Chinatown Community Development Center

Mitchell Crispell, BRIDGE Housing Corporation

Stacy Flores, AECOM

Nicole Montojo, Othering & Belonging Institute 

Sarah Ritter, Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, Baltimore, MD

Ángel Mendiola Ross, PolicyLink

Evelyn St-Louis, Strategic Economics

Francisco Trejo Morales, Anthropology Graduate Student at UC Berkeley

Fern Uennatornwaranggoon, Environmental Defense Fund

Ulises Hernandez Jimenez, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates

Cristina Nape, Hatch

Joni Hirsch, Center for the Study of Social Policy

Joseph Poirier, Nelson/Nygaard

Juan Sebastian Arias, Metropolitan Planning Council

Samantha Beckerman, Association of Bay Area Governments

Lu-Ming Lee, Studio T-SQ

Somaya Abdelgany, Satellite Affordable Housing Associates

Daniel Hamilton, City of Oakland Sustainability Manager

James Yelen, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.

Yiyang Yu,  WeWork

Sonrisa Cooper, The Greenling Institute

Matthew da Silva, Department of Economic and Housing Development, City of Newark

Rebecca Coleman, Alameda County Community Development Agency

Viktor Bensus, Sociology Graduate Student Sociology, City College of New York 

Anna Cash, Program Director, Urban Displacement Project 

Raleigh McCoy, Metropolitan Transportation Comission

Alison Ecker, SWA Group

Emily Roach, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates

Emma Tome, California Public Utilities Commission

Eli Kaplan, Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Asher Butnik, Hatch

James Perez, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation

Julia Branco, Enterprise Community Partners

Sabrina Hussien, Master of Architecture, Master of City Planning

Leslie Aguayo, Greenling

Simon Hochberg, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Vidya Bhamidi, Community Design and Architecture