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| Maria Cabildo |
Cabildo is the president and co-founder of ELACC, the East Los Angeles Community Organization. ELACC is a community development organization dedicated to residential advocacy, providing opportunities for affordable housing, and building personal assets through homeownership, education, and viable commerce. Cabildo is also on the board of directors of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, California Housing Partnership, A Community of Friends, and the Los Angeles Unified School District Citizen’s Bond Oversight Committee. Cabildo attended the University of California, Los Angeles where she received her Masters degree in Architecture and Urban Planning. Cabildo also holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Urban Studies from Colombia University.
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| Debbie Lawrence |
Lawrence is the point planner for the update of the San Pedro Community Plan, a long-range land use plan that guides development in the harbor-area community. There are 35 Community Plans in the City of Los Angeles, which function as blueprints to guide the layout of land uses in the unique and varying neighborhoods of the city. Lawrence’s community plan looks to shape future growth, protect neighborhood character, create new economic opportunities, and enhance the quality of life for all who live, work, visit and invest in San Pedro. The community plans are a critical tool for future growth and quality of life in Los Angeles. Lawrence is a planner at the City of Los Angeles. She attended Cal Poly Pomona where she received her Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning. Lawrence also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Loyola Marymount University and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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| Oliver Schulze |
Architect Oliver Schulze is a partner at the urban design studio Schulze + Grassov based in Copenhagen. His work focuses on the relationship between the built environment and people’s quality of life. Project experience spans a diverse portfolio of international commissions, ranging from strategic urban frameworks at the scale of cities and regions to the completed delivery of public spaces. Recent projects include the vision for regeneration of major urban corridors in San Francisco and Los Angeles; the design of public spaces in Oman; and the award-winning refurbishment of New Road in Brighton, one of the few shared-surface, multimodal, non-residential streets in the United Kingdom. Schulze is a founder of Citymakers, an international urban research and development group based in Moscow, and a founding member of the German Sustainable Building Council.
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| Christopher Hawthorne |
Hawthorne is the architecture critic for
the Los Angeles Times. Previously he worked as the architecture critic for Slate, contributing
editor for Metropolis magazine and he was also a frequent contributor to the
New York Times. His work has also appeared in the Washington Post, the New
Yorker and Architectural Record, among many other publications. He has taught at Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley and was a mid-career fellow in 1998-99 at Columbia's National Arts Journalism Program. Hawthorne is an honors graduate of Yale University, where he studied architectural history and political philosophy.
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| Mott Smith |
Smith has built his career crafting real estate innovations from positions in private industry and the public sector. Prior to forming CEA (Civic Enterprise Associates), he was Acting Director of Planning for the Los Angeles Unified School District, where he helped launch the District's $1.6 billion Phase II school construction program. Earlier his work focused on expanding the application of joint ventures, mixed-use and public-private real estate development models. Smith served as the editor/business manager of two industry publications, The Planning Report and Metro Investment Report. He is President of the Westside Urban Forum, a member of the Urban Land Institute's L.A. Executive Council, and sits on the Board of the Transportation & Land Use Collaborative. Smith received a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Linguistics from UCLA.
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| Ed Reyes |
Reyes has served on the Los Angeles City Council since April 2001. A native of Northeast Los Angeles, Councilmember Reyes represents many of the neighborhoods he grew up in including Lincoln Heights and Cypress Park. As chair of the City Council's Planning and Land Use Management committee, Reyes has expanded the City's affordable housing stock. He successfully pushed for Adaptive Reuse, or the conversion of abandoned buildings into housing, which enabled the construction of thousands of housing units City wide. Additionally, he helped establish Residential and Accessory Services, which permits residential development in commercial zones. As chair of the Metro Gold Line Authority the Councilmember also helped ensure that the $750 million Gold Line project was completed on time and on budget. Reyes attended UCLA where he earned a Bachelors degree in English and a Masters degree from UCLA's Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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| Robin Hughes |
Hughes is president and chief executive officer of Abode Communities. She has been actively involved in affordable housing and community development for over 25 years and in her 15 years as leader of Abode Communities, Hughes has transformed the organization into a top 50 affordable housing developer nationwide and the premier provider of affordable housing in Southern California. Prior to joining Abode Communities, held positions in the private and public sectors including The Richmond Group of Companies, Citibank, the Community Development Commission of the County of Los Angeles, and the Office of the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles. Hughes received her Masters and Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, and received a certificate from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Executive Program, Achieving Excellence in Community Development.
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| Gloria Ohland |
Ohland has worked on issues related to transit and transit-oriented development at the national and local levels for many years. She was a founding member of the Center for Transit-Oriented Development, which was funded by Congress to promote best practices in TOD; worked on the H+T (housing and transportation) affordability index now used by HUD to prioritize housing projects for funding; and she worked on an early Southern California demonstration project of the location efficient mortgage, which was the precursor to the H+T index. Since joining Move LA she has worked on implementing SB 375, which seeks to reduce GHG emissions by reducing driving, and on thinking through how we ensure the creation of affordable, livable, prosperous neighborhoods along the transit system we are building out with funding from the Measure R sales tax. Previously she was a vice president at the national nonprofit Reconnecting America, and has authored many publications on transit and TOD.
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| Joe Linton |
Linton is an artist, author, and urban environmental activist. Formerly he worked for Friends of the L.A. River, Livable Places, C.I.C.L.E., and other non-profit organizations. Linton lives at the Los Angeles Eco-Village, where he gardens, harvests rainwater, attends potlucks, writes policies, blogs, and various other activities. He has lived car-free since 1992. He was one of the founders of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and has advocated for non-motorized transportation alternatives, including bikability, walkability, transit-oriented-development, traffic calming, parking reform, and more. Linton writes on urban water issues at L.A. Creek Freak. Recently he worked as the Campaigns Director for Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange or C.I.C.L.E.
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| Simon Pastucha |
Pastucha is co-director of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning Urban Design Studio. Its mission is to integrate urban design into the basic building blocks of the City. Prior to his current position he served as Chief Planning Deputy for Councilman Michael Feuer working on major planning, transportation, public works projects and legislation. He was a key part of implementing the new Los Angeles City Charter, and has worked on amendments to the Los Angeles Municipal Code resulting in reducing impediments to new housing, adaptive reuse of existing structures, and code simplification.
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| Regina Freer |
Freer's research and teaching interests include race and politics, demographic change, urban politics, and the intersection of all three in Los Angeles. Her current project is a political biography of Charlotta Bass, a Los Angeles based African-American newspaper editor and activist who ran for vice president of the United States in 1952. Freer also serves on the board of the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research and the Center for Juvenile Law and Policy at Loyola Law School. She is a former member of the funding board for Liberty Hill Foundation's Seed Fund. Freer is also the Vice President of the Los Angeles Planning Comission. She attended UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan.
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| Lewis MacAdams |
MacAdams is the author of a dozen books and tapes of poetry, and his poems have appeared in many anthologies. In 2001, he published his Birth of The Cool, a cultural history of the idea of cool. As a journalist, MacAdams has been a contributing editor of the L.A. Weekly and has written regularly on culture and ecology for Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, L.A. Times, and Los Angeles Magazine. As a political activist, MacAdams is a cofounder of Friends of The Los Angeles River (FoLAR) established in 1985 (and has served as Chair on their Board of Directors). FoLAR has been characterized by MacAdams as a "40 year art work" to bring the Los Angeles River back to life. In the years since, he has become the River’s most important and influential advocate. Among FoLAR’s many projects are an annual river clean-up, the "Gran Limpieza," which brings 2500 people down to the river to clean up every Spring; and an on-going series of conferences and planning workshops dealing with every aspect of the river. Two of its current major goals are to create a Los Angeles River Conservancy to oversee restoration of the river, and a River Watch program to improve the River’s water quality and target polluters. MacAdams was born in San Angelo, Texas and graduated from Princeton University in 1966.
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| Faisal Roble |
Roble is a Senior City Planner in the Policy Planning and Historic Resources Division who currently manages citywide policies and programs related to housing, mobility, and the development of Transit Oriented Districts (TODs). He also currently oversees two major projects – the USC and Jordan Downs Specific Plans, which together represent over $1.3 billion in investment in the local economy. Faisal has been with the Department of City Planning for more than 20 years and has gained experience in many branches of the department, including Neighborhood Implementation, Citywide, Community Plans, the Public Counter, and Code Studies. Roble was the lead planner in preparing Environmental Impact Reports for previous community plan updates for several years. He has also worked closely with Council Offices, a variety of City Departments (including the Housing Authority), and has worked diligently to foster a good understanding between the Department and the community-at-large.
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| Aaron Paley |
Paley is president and co founder of Community Arts Resources (CARS) which creates opportunities to engage with culture and community. He is also the founder and chair of Yiddishkayt Los Angeles, devoted to Yiddish culture and the producer of the biggest Yiddish festival in the nation. Paley created CycLAvia, after receiving the 2008-2009 Durfee Stanton Fellowship. He is fluent in French and conversant in both Spanish and Yiddish. His vision for Los Angeles gave form to the public performance series Grand Performances at California Plaza, the programming vision for the of Civic Park, the plan for the reuse of the historic Broadway Movie Palaces and the blueprint for the Plaza de Cultura y Arte. He created and directed the seminal 1987 Los Angeles Fringe Festival (the first in the U.S.). Paley has been a champion for public space, the performing arts as catalysts for a stronger civic fabric, the reuse of historic structures, and the integration of artists and arts organizations in people’s daily lives. Paley is a native to Los Angeles, graduating from U.S. Grant High School in Van Nyes. He received a B.A. in Architecture from UC Berkeley and an M.B.A. in Non-Profit Arts Management from UCLA.
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| Sadie Moore |
Moore is the Director of Training at Coro Center for Civic Leadership. She trains two Fellows Programs in Public Affairs, creating and facilitating experiences and seminars for individuals to become more effective leaders and change agents. She attended University of Arkansas receiving a BA in Anthropology. She also attended the Unversity of Southern California receiving a Ph.D in Anthropology. While attending USC, she was the Senior Assistant Lecturer for the Art and Adventure of Leadership, and also an Adjunct Assistant Professor.
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| Margo Ocanas |
Ocanas is the Los Angeles Pedestrian Coordinator. Ocanas, a former grant manager with the RENEW Program at the L.A. County Department of Public Health, was planning “open-street” block parties and organizing walking and bicycling school buses for her kids before pedestrian access became a profession. Ocañas holds a Masters degree in both Business and International Affairs from Columbia University. She has Studied Mandarin in Singapore as a Fulbright scholar and worked for Austin-based Dell Computers when it was a scrappy start up.
