UC REGENTS - Key Persons

Alexander Casey

Job Titles:
  • Terner Labs Staff Member
  • Director for the Housing Affordability Data Lab
  • Director, Housing Affordability Data Lab
Alexander Casey is the Director for the Housing Affordability Data Lab, the Terner Labs program to create analytical tools and datasets to inform more data-based government decisions. He brings public-facing and managerial experience in housing policy research and real estate economics. Prior to joining the Terner team, Alexander worked as a senior manager and policy advisor on Zillow Group's Economic Research team, analyzing housing data to provide insights and expertise to government, non-profit, and media organizations. Before that, he worked on consumer protection issues for the Minnesota Attorney General's Office. Alexander holds an MPA from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, and a BA in Sociology from the University of Minnesota.

Alfred Fraijo

Job Titles:
  • Partner, Sheppard Mullin

Ann Sewill

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Los Angeles Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  • General Manager of the City of Los Angeles' Housing
  • General Manager, Housing and Community Investment Department, City of Los Angeles
Ann Sewill is the General Manager of the City of Los Angeles' Housing + Community Investment Department, responsible for direction and oversight of the City's programs for housing preservation development, accessible housing production, community investment, rent stabilization, and code compliance. Prior to joining HCIDLA in July 2020, Ms. Sewill was the Vice President, Health & Housing, at the California Community Foundation, overseeing grant making, lending, public policy and advocacy portfolios, working to develop affordable housing to stabilize communities and end homelessness, and to address root causes affecting the health of Angelenos. Before joining the foundation in June 2006, Sewill was Vice President and California Director of Enterprise Community Partners; Assistant General Manager of the Los Angeles Housing Department; CEO of the Los Angeles Community Design Center (now Abode Communities), and Housing Director for the City of Santa Monica. She also worked with the Los Angeles offices of the California Department of Housing and Community Development and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In the past Sewill has served as a director of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Affordable Housing Advisory Council of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, the Loan and Grant Committee of the California Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing, and of Mercy Housing California. She currently serves on the boards of the California Housing Consortium and the Los Angeles Development Fund.

Ben Metcalf - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Managing Director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Ben Metcalf is the Managing Director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley where he leads the expansion and deepening of Terner Center's work addressing housing affordability challenges through rigorous research and policy analysis. In addition, he holds an appointment as adjunct professor with UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning. And he serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Terner Housing Innovation Labs, Inc., a nonprofit organization formed to advance the applied innovation work of the Terner Center. In 2015, Ben was appointed by former Governor Jerry Brown to lead California's Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), a role he held until 2019. During his tenure at the State, Ben played an instrumental role in the passage and implementation of the 2017 Housing Package and oversaw the Department during a period of significant expansion of the state's financial and regulatory reach into housing and land use matters. In addition, he served on the board of directors of the California Housing Partnership Corporation, the California Housing Finance Agency, and was the founding chair of the State of California's Homelessness Coordinating and Finance Council. Prior to joining HCD, Ben worked in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C., including as an appointee of President Obama in the role of Deputy Assistant Secretary overseeing HUD's Office of Multifamily Housing Programs. His responsibilities included oversight of the Federal Housing Administration multifamily guaranteed loan portfolio and a subsidized affordable housing portfolio representing 30,000 multifamily properties across the U.S. As senior advisor to the FHA Commissioner on multifamily housing, he developed key Administration priorities related to energy efficiency, housing for the elderly, disabled and formerly homeless, and comprehensive neighborhood revitalization. Before that, he developed mixed-income and mixed-use communities with California-based BRIDGE Housing Corporation. As a senior project manager at BRIDGE, he sourced affordable housing opportunities and had day-to-day responsibility for a portfolio of major projects from initial due diligence and site acquisition through approvals, design and construction, bringing forward $125 million in development activity. He played key roles in implementing community engagement strategy and successfully securing environmental and land use approvals for four major Bay Area land opportunities representing $1.5 billion of new development. He has a Masters in Public Policy and Urban Planning from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College.

Carol Galante - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Chairman of the Advisory Board
  • Founder
  • Founder and Advisor of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Carol Galante is the Founder and Advisor of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and The Housing Lab, an accelerator program working with early-stage ventures on housing affordability. She is the Emeritus Faculty Director of the Terner Center and held the I. Donald Terner Professorship in Affordable Housing and Urban Policy at UC Berkeley between 2015-2021. She previously served in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing Programs. Prior to her appointment at HUD, she served for over ten years as President and CEO of BRIDGE Housing Corporation. She also chairs the Board of Terner Housing Innovation Labs, serves on the Board of The Community Builders, and is an advisor to Factory OS. Carol Galante is the Founder and Advisor of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and The Housing Lab, an accelerator for early-stage ventures with the potential to fundamentally improve the housing market and make it more affordable and fair. Galante's work with the Terner Center and Labs focuses on a portfolio of innovation work and continued support of strategic partnerships and federal and state policy projects. Galante serves as Chair of the Board of the Terner Housing Innovation Labs, a 501c3 non-profit that was created in 2019 to support Terner Center's innovation portfolio, and Chair of the Advisory Board for the Terner Center & Labs. She is the Emeritus Faculty Director of the Terner Center and held the I. Donald Terner Professorship in Affordable Housing and Urban Policy at UC Berkeley between 2015-2021. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Galante served in the Obama Administration for over five years as the Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing programs. Galante provided key leadership in the housing sector during the recession of 2009, including strengthening FHA's infrastructure and policies while providing access to credit that helped stabilize the housing market. She also developed signature initiatives that provided better opportunities to low-income families including Choice Neighborhoods and the Rental Assistance Demonstration Program. Prior to her appointment at HUD, Galante was President and Chief Executive of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, the largest non-profit developer of affordable, mixed-income and mixed-use developments in California. Early in her career Galante also worked for local government in city planning and community economic development. Galante serves on the non-profit Board of Directors of The Community Builders. She is also an advisor to Factory OS, an innovative new company changing how we build. She holds a Master of City Planning from UC Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan.

Carolina K. Reid

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Research Advisor
  • I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor
Carolina K. Reid is the I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor in Affordable Housing and Urban Policy in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. As the Faculty Research Advisor for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, she assists with the design and execution of the Center's research agenda and portfolio. Carolina specializes in housing and community development, with a specific focus on access to credit, housing and mortgage markets, urban poverty, and racial inequality. Her current research projects include an assessment of strategies to address homelessness in California, the role that subsidized housing plays in promoting economic mobility among low-income families, and the impact of discrimination in mortgage lending on the racial wealth gap. Carolina's work seeks to inform state and federal policy, and she has consulted on projects for the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Center for Community Capital, Abt Associates, and community development nonprofits. Her scholarship has been covered in national and international media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and local outlets such as the Mercury News, CalMatters, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Carolina brings nearly two decades of applied work experience to her research and teaching. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, Carolina worked at the Center for Responsible Lending, where she undertook policy analyses on how provisions in Dodd-Frank could affect future access to credit for lower-income and minority households. Carolina also served as the Research Manager for the Community Development Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for six years. At the SF Fed, Carolina published numerous journal and policy articles on topics related to housing and community development, and helped to build the capacity of local stakeholders - including banks, nonprofits, and local governments - to undertake community development activities, especially in the areas of affordable housing, early childcare education, asset building, and neighborhood revitalization. Carolina has also held positions with the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., where she worked on urban environmental issues and the environmental impacts on health; the Environmental Health and Social Policy Center in Seattle, where she contributed to the evaluation of Jobs-Plus, a welfare-to-work demonstration targeted to residents living in public housing developments; and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment based out of Penang, Malaysia, where she managed an effort to understand how indigenous knowledge about environmental change could be integrated into international environmental decision-making processes. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MA and PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Christi Economy

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Research Associate for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Christi Economy is a Research Associate for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation. In this role, she is helping to execute the center's research on homelessness in California. Prior to joining the Terner Center, Christi was a Project Lead for the Harvard Kennedy School's Government Performance Lab, where she worked directly with local governments to expand access to early education. Christi holds a PhD in Public Policy from Oxford University, and a BA in Economics and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Claudia Cappio

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
  • Consulting Principal, Urban Planning Partners
Claudia Cappio is a Terner Center Fellow. She has worked in local and state government in the Bay Area for over 37 years, including Planning and Building Director for the communities of Albany, Emeryville and Oakland. Most recently, she served as Oakland's Assistant City Administrator, responsible for major real estate projects and co-chair of Mayor Schaaf's Housing Cabinet. Prior to that, Ms. Cappio served in Governor Brown's administration during 2011-2015 as Executive Director of both the California Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Housing and Community Development.

Cora Johnson-Grau

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager
  • Communications Manager for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Cora Johnson-Grau is the Communications Manager for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation. She joined the Terner Center as the Communications and Development Coordinator in February 2018. Before joining the Terner Center, she worked as an Editorial and Administrative Assistant in Communications and Stewardship in Development and Alumni Relations at Penn Medicine. She has completed internships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Night Kitchen Interactive, and the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Haverford College.

Cris Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager at Terner Housing Innovation Labs
Cris Martinez is the Operations Manager at Terner Housing Innovation Labs. Cris leads operational functions including finance, human resources, and administration and supports programmatic operations for the Housing Lab and the Housing Affordability Data Lab. Prior to Terner Labs, he worked as an Operations Manager for a local commercial real estate company. Cris holds a BA in Business Administration from CalState East Bay.

Cristobal Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager
  • Terner Labs Staff Member
Cris Martinez is the Operations Manager at Terner Housing Innovation Labs. Cris leads operational functions including finance, human resources, and administration and supports programmatic operations for the Housing Lab and the Housing Affordability Data Lab. Prior to Terner Labs, he worked as an Operations Manager for a local commercial real estate company. Cris holds a BA in Business Administration from CalState East Bay.

Daryl J. Carter

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Avanath Capital Management, LLC
  • Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Avanath Capital Management
Daryl J. Carter is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Avanath Capital Management, LLC, a California-based investment firm that acquires, renovates, and operates apartment properties, with an emphasis on affordable and workforce communities. Carter directs the overall Carter is a Past Chairman of the National Multifamily Housing Council. Previously, Carter served as an independent director on the boards of the following companies: Catellus Development Corporation (CDX), Silver Bay Realty Trust (SBY), and Whitestone REIT (WSR).

David Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Policy Director
David Garcia is the Policy Director for the Terner Center. He leads the center's engagement in local, state and federal housing policy and supports the generation of research-driven policy ideas, proposals, and papers. Prior to joining the Terner Center, David worked as the Chief Operating Officer for Ten Space, a real estate development company in Stockton, California focused exclusively on infill projects in the downtown neighborhood. As COO, David managed various aspects of the development process, including development agreements, environmental review, and project design. Prior to his work with Ten Space, David was a Research Analyst at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, DC. At the GAO, David conducted evaluations and analyses of several different federal programs using a variety of methods, both quantitative and qualitative. David holds a Bachelors of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles as well as a Master's in Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies in Baltimore, Maryland.

Governor Gavin Newsom

Job Titles:
  • Director of the California Department of Housing

Guangyue Cao

Job Titles:
  • Terner Labs Staff Member
  • Data Scientist

Gustavo Velasquez

Job Titles:
  • Director, California Department of Housing and Community Development
In May of 2020, Gustavo Velasquez was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development. In this leadership role, Velasquez leads California's housing policy agenda and administers a wide range of programs that produce, preserve, and protect affordable housing and communities of opportunity across the state. Velasquez was a senior director at the Urban Institute, a renowned national research organization working to provide data analysis and insights to policymakers and practitioners in ways both relevant and actionable. Velasquez served for nearly three years as assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He served on behalf of the president as the strategic lead of the fair housing and inclusive community agenda for the Obama administration. During his tenure, HUD achieved groundbreaking enforcement victories in fair lending and in major housing discrimination cases. Velasquez led efforts to promulgate the landmark Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, a key tool for cities, states, and other HUD funding recipients to reduce inequality and disparities in access to opportunity.

Issi Romem

Job Titles:
  • Founder, Metrosight
  • Founder, Metrosight / Support
Issi Romem is an Affiliate at the Terner Center. He is the founder of MetroSight. He was formerly chief economist at Trulia & BuildZoom. He researches and writes about housing and cities for a lay audience. His work has been featured in major publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and many more. He has also consulted for Apartment List and for the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. Issi earned a PhD in economics at UC Berkeley, where he intermittently teaches econometrics as adjunct faculty. He earned Master's and Bachelor's degrees from The Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University.

Jed Kolko

Job Titles:
  • under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce
Jed Kolko is a Terner Center Affiliate. He is the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He was the Chief Economist at Indeed, the world's #1 online jobs site. Jed specializes in using large-scale proprietary and publicly available datasets to uncover insights about labor markets, the future of work, demographics, housing markets, and urban trends. Previously he was Chief Economist and VP of Analytics at Trulia, the online real estate marketplace; Associate Director and Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, focusing on economic, housing and technology policies; and Vice President and Research Director at Forrester, the technology research consultancy. He has also held positions at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (now FHFA), the World Bank, and the Progressive Policy Institute. Jed earned his AB in social studies and his PhD in economics at Harvard University. He lives in San Francisco and can be reached via his website (www.jedkolko.com), Twitter (@jedkolko), or LinkedIn.

Jessie Modlin

Job Titles:
  • Resource Development Manager
Jessie joined the Terner Center in August 2022. Before coming to Terner, Jessie spent almost four years at the Oakland Museum of California where she played a key role on the grants team. She also spent a year serving as an AmeriCorps member at the International Rescue Committee in San Diego and worked in IRC's early employment department, helping refugees find jobs. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Scripps College.

Kara Murray-Badal

Job Titles:
  • Terner Labs Staff Member
  • Director of the Housing Lab
  • Director, Housing Lab
Kara Murray-Badal is the Director of the Housing Lab. She brings a wealth of managerial and project management experience from both the private and non-profit sectors. Before joining the Terner team she was a Crisis Project Manager at Bayer Healthcare as well as Deputy Director at The Mosaic Project, a non-profit focused on communication across cultures and backgrounds. She's also an Oakland native with a background in community activism and politics, having consulted on policy for several city and done communications and field leadership for electoral campaigns. Kara holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Psychology from Stanford University.

Karen Chapple

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director of the School of Cities and Professor of Geography and Planning, the University of Toronto
  • Professor
Karen Chapple, PhD, is a Faculty Research Affiliate at the Terner Center. She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she held the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies and served as department chair. She is currently the inaugural Director of the School of Cities and Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the U.S. and Latin America, with a focus on economic development and housing. Her recent books include Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions: Towards More Equitable Development (Routledge, 2015), which won the John Friedmann Book Award from the American Collegiate Schools of Planning; Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, MIT Press, 2019); and Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from Peripheral Regions in Latin America (with Sergio Montero, Routledge, 2018). In 2020, Chapple launched the Department of City & Regional Planning's new urban data science training program focused on housing and transportation. Chapple holds a Bachelor's in Urban Studies (Phi Beta Kappa) from Columbia University, an M.S.C.R.P from the Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. She has served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota and the University of Pennsylvania, in addition to UC Berkeley. From 2006-2009, she held the Theodore Bo and Doris Shoong Lee Chair in Environmental Design. She is a founding member of the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Building Resilient Regions. Prior to academia, Chapple spent ten years as a practicing planner in economic development, land use, and transportation in New York and San Francisco.

Lisa Rice

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Conference
  • President and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance
  • President and Chief Executive Officer, National Fair Housing Alliance
Lisa Rice is the President and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), the nation's only national civil rights agency solely dedicated to eliminating all forms of housing discrimination. NFHA is also the trade association for over 200 member organizations across the country that work to eliminate barriers in the housing markets and expand equal housing and lending opportunities. NFHA provides a range of programs to affirmatively further fair housing including community development, neighborhood stabilization, training, education, outreach, advocacy, consulting, and enforcement initiatives. Rice is a member of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Board of Directors, Center for Responsible Lending Board of Directors, JPMorgan Chase Consumer Advisory Council, Mortgage Bankers Association's Consumer Advisory Council, Freddie Mac Affordable Housing Advisory Council, Quicken Loans Advisory Forum, Bipartisan Policy Center's Housing Advisory Council, and FinRegLab's Machine Learning Advisory Board.

Mark M. Zandi

Job Titles:
  • Chief Economist of Moody's
  • Chief Economist, Moody 's Analytics
  • Chief Economist, Moody 's Analytics / Support
Mark M. Zandi is chief economist of Moody's Analytics, where he directs economic research. Moody's Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody's Corp., is a leading provider of economic research, data, and analytical tools. Dr. Zandi is a co-founder of Economy.com, which Moody's purchased in 2005. Dr. Zandi is on the board of directors of MGIC, the nation's largest private mortgage insurance company, and is the lead director of Reinvestment Fund, one of the nation's largest community development financial institutions, which makes investments in underserved communities. He is a trusted adviser to policymakers and an influential source of economic analysis for businesses, journalists, and the public. Dr. Zandi frequently testifies before Congress and conducts regular briefings on the economy for corporate boards, trade associations, and policymakers at all levels. He is often quoted in national and global publications and interviewed by major news media outlets, and is a frequent guest on CNBC, NPR, Meet the Press, CNN, and various other national networks and news programs. Dr. Zandi is the author of Paying the Price: Ending the Great Recession and Beginning a New American Century, which provides an assessment of the monetary and fiscal policy response to the Great Recession. His other book, Financial Shock: A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis, is described by the New York Times as the "clearest guide" to the financial crisis. Dr. Zandi earned his BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.

Matthew Desmond

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Sociology at Princeton University

Maurice P. During

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond's research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A Contributing Writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of "fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate."

Michelle Boyd - Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Chief Strategy Officer
  • Terner Labs Staff Member
  • Chief Strategy Officer for Terner Labs
Michelle Boyd is the Chief Strategy Officer for Terner Labs. In this role she leads strategic planning, new program development, and fundraising across Terner Labs' programs. She started with Terner in 2018 leading the design and launch of the Housing Lab program while pursuing her MBA at UC Berkeley's Haas School of business. Under her leadership, the Housing Lab supported two cohorts of early-stage ventures that have gone on to raise over $340 million in additional funding, secure significant government partnerships, and provide housing or increased financial security to over 27,000 people. Michelle brings a decade of experience in community and startup finance, organizational strategy and design, and urban policy research. Prior to joining the Terner team, Michelle worked as a strategy consultant for the Bridgespan Group, collaborating with nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, and foundation leaders across issues of community development, housing, and education. She also worked with housing social impact startup, Landed, developing the organization's impact metrics and fundraising strategy. Michelle holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, an Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Real Estate from UC Berkeley, and a BA in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. Michelle also serves as an advisor to various coalitions dedicated to housing innovation and impact investing. These include the Community Investment Guarantee Pool (CIGP), a $38-million pooled fund of financial guarantees that backs investments in affordable housing; the Multifamily Impact Council, a new effort to define a shared set of impact metrics across the multifamily investment industry; and the Advanced Building Construction Collaborative, a government-backed effort to spur further innovation in housing construction techniques.

Muhammad T. Alameldin

Job Titles:
  • Policy Associate

Noerena Limón - SVP

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
  • SVP
  • SVP, Public Policy and Industry Relations, NAHREP
Noerena Limón is a Terner Center Fellow. She is Senior Vice President of Public Policy and Industry Relations at the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP). At NAHREP, Limón leads the organization's policy and advocacy efforts. Additionally, Limón serves as the Executive Director of the Hispanic Wealth Project, a NAHREP initiative focused on bridging the racial and ethnic wealth gap.

Quinn Underriner

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist

Richard Rothstein

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute
  • Distinguished Fellow, Economic Policy Institute
Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which recovers a forgotten history of how federal, state, and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide, creating racially homogenous neighborhoods in patterns that violate the Constitution and require remediation. He is also the author of many other articles and books on race and education, which can be found on his web page at the Economic Policy Institute: http://www.epi.org/people/richard-rothstein/. Previous influential books include Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap and Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right. He welcomes questions and comments at riroth@epi.org.

Rosanne Haggerty

Job Titles:
  • President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Solutions
Rosanne Haggerty is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Solutions. She is an internationally recognized leader in developing innovative strategies to end homelessness and strengthen communities. Community Solutions assists communities throughout the U.S and internationally in solving the complex housing problems facing their most vulnerable residents. Their large-scale change initiatives include the 100,000 Homes and Built for Zero Campaigns to end chronic and veteran homelessness, and neighborhood partnerships that bring together local residents and institutions to change the conditions that produce homelessness. Earlier, she founded Common Ground Community, a pioneer in the design and development of supportive housing and research-based practices that end homelessness. Ms. Haggerty was a Japan Society Public Policy Fellow, and is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Ashoka Senior Fellow, Hunt Alternative Fund Prime Mover and the recipient of honors including the Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism from the Rockefeller Foundation, Social Entrepreneur of the year from the Schwab Foundation, Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian Design Museum's National Design Award and Independent Sector's John W. Gardner Leadership Award. She is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Ryan Finnigan

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Director
  • Associate Research Director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Ryan Finnigan is an Associate Research Director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, helping design and execute the center's research agenda. His research has focused on homelessness in California, and poverty and social policy both in the United States overall and internationally. Prior to joining the Terner Center, Ryan was an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Ryan has a PhD and MA in Sociology from Duke University, and a BA in Sociology and BS in Mathematics from Indiana University.

Shazia Manji

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Research Associate for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Shazia Manji is a Research Associate for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation. Her interests are in reducing health disparities and promoting equitable community development. Prior to joining the Terner Center, Shazia contributed to research on climate change and displacement at the Urban Displacement Project while pursuing a dual Masters in Public Health and Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley. Before attending Cal, she worked in non-profit communications and policy advocacy, supporting health equity and environmental justice campaigns at Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles. Shazia also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from UC San Diego.

Sheppard Mullin

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner, Sheppard Mullin
Alfred Fraijo, Jr. is a Terner Center Fellow. He is a partner in the Real Estate, Land Use & Natural Resources Practice Group and a member of the Executive Committee at Sheppard Mullin. He has significant experience in obtaining and negotiating land use entitlements for complex housing and mixed-use development projects throughout California, including advising clients with innovative, urban renewal projects in the inner-city and other sectors with emerging markets. He is also the Founder of Inclusive Action for the City - a non-profit that works to create multi-disciplinary alliances focused on designing, building, and promoting sustainable communities. He holds degrees from Harvard University and Loyola Law School.

Shola Olatoye

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer, Eden Housing
Shola Olatoye (o-LAH-twoh-yay) is a Terner Center Fellow and on the Terner Advisory Board. She is the Chief Operating Officer of Eden Housing. Prior to joining Eden Housing, Shola served as director of Housing and Community Development for the City of Oakland. As an appointed member of the city's executive team, she led a team of 74 people and oversaw more than $100M of housing production and preservation capital. She is an experienced real estate and management executive with more than 20 years of experience launching and managing public-private partnerships. She served as Vice President of Business Development for Suffolk Construction, a national construction management firm. Prior to joining Suffolk, Shola served as Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the largest public housing authority in the nation. As a Mayoral appointee, Shola launched NextGeneration NYCHA, the agency's 10-year turnaround plan. She led her team to balance the $3.1 billion operating budget for three consecutive years, launched a major real estate development program, and founded a social impact nonprofit, the Fund for Public Housing. Olatoye graduated with a BA with honors in history and African American studies from Wesleyan University. She also earned a Master of Public Administration from NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where she currently serves as a Visiting Scholar teaching in the Masters of Urban Planning program on management and leadership.

Toni Steele

Job Titles:
  • Senior Real Estate Executive
Toni Steele is a Senior Real Estate Executive serving as Google Real Estate Portfolio Lead based in Silicon Valley. Her role ensures Google's workplace and related business supply/demand needs are met through direct holdings, new development, and market transactions (acquisitions and leasing). Steele is also Co-Lead of Google's $1 billion Affordable Housing Fund. Steele is an engaged, innovative, and versatile leader with a collaborative commercial approach, cultural embodiment, technical acumen, and a leading execution track record on multiple investment and product types (domestic & abroad) valued in excess of $50 billion. She has extensive capital markets & asset management experience from over 22 years with Goldman Sachs (International Country Lead for Italy & Germany | US Vice President) on large holding acquisitions, direct and NPL real estate portfolios, and country platforms. Her key focus areas include progressive office, life science, redevelopment, urban campuses, and film studios. While JLL Executive VP of Southern California Capital Markets, she co-lead the Netflix purchase of the Albuquerque Studios. She holds a Master of Business Administration, summa cum laude, from the International University of Monaco and a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude from Pepperdine University. She also attended UCLA her freshman year and later for real estate studies.

Vonie Burrell

Job Titles:
  • Senior Administrative Assistant

William Fulton

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
  • Director, Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University
William Fulton is a Terner Center Fellow. He is the Director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University and a leading expert on California land-use planning and the implications of land-use planning on housing in the state. Prior to his work at the Kinder Institute, Fulton served as Director of Planning and Economic Development for the City of San Diego, Vice President for Policy at the advocacy group Smart Growth America, Principal and Shareholder at the California urban planning firm now known as Placeworks, and Mayor of Ventura, California. Fulton is the author of six books, including Guide to California Planning, the standard urban planning textbook in California, and The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, which was an L.A. Times best-seller. He holds master's degrees in mass communication from The American University and urban planning from the UCLA.

Yusef Freeman

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner, Real Estate, the Vistria Group
Yusef Freeman is a Partner at The Vistria Group in Real Estate. Prior to joining Vistria, Yusef served

Zack Subin

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Director
  • Associate Research Director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Zack Subin is an Associate Research Director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, leading research at the intersection of climate and housing topics. He is particularly interested in better quantifying the role of housing policy reforms in supporting climate policy goals, and in identifying approaches which co-optimize for housing affordability and climate mitigation. Zack previously conducted climate policy analysis at RMI and Energy + Environmental Economics (E3), focusing on deep decarbonization pathways, building electrification, and urbanism. He has a PhD in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and conducted climate science research at national laboratories in Berkeley and Princeton, investigating terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks to climate change in earth system models. He also has an MPP from Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and a BA in Physics and Math from Harvard University.