OUR TEAM

The Luskin Center for Innovation has about 20 employees on our core team who serve in executive leadership, research, and administrative roles. Team members collaborate with affiliated faculty—about 20 at a time, based throughout UCLA and at other universities—who have expertise in public policy, urban planning, economics, engineering, environmental health, and other subjects relevant to our research. Part-time consultants and student workers are also a critical part of our team. We employ or otherwise support about 50 students each year.

CORE TEAM

Samantha Astudillo
Project Manager
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Amaya Breese
Events & Operations Coordinator
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Camille Burrus
Project Manager
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Mara Elana Burstein
Communications Director
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Colleen Callahan
Executive Director
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Daniel Coffee
Project Manager
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Rachel Connolly
Project Director
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Edith B. de Guzman
Cooperative Extension Specialist
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Lauren Dunlap
Project Manager
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Grace Harrison
Project Manager
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Elena Hernandez
Senior Project Manager
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Jean Claude Iradukunda
Data Scientist
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Jason Karpman
Project Director
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Alex Aguirre Levitas
Project Manager
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Megan Mullin
Faculty Director
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Gregory Pierce
Senior Director
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V. Kelly Turner
Associate Director
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Constance Vance
Operations Director
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Zach Wampler
Project Coordinator
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Angela Wu
Web Designer
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Lana Zimmerman
Project Manager
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DOCTORAL & POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Nicholas Chow
Researcher (based at the University of Oxford)
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Kyra Gmoser-Daskalakis
Researcher (based at UC Davis)
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Aneesa Gomez-Cervantes
Doctoral Researcher
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Jelena Jezdimirovic
Postdoctoral Researcher (based at UC Davis)
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Weilong (David) Kong
Consultant
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Robinson Markus
Doctoral Researcher
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Max McNally
Doctoral Researcher
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Melody Ng
Researcher
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AFFILIATED SCHOLARS

Alan Barreca
Associate Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
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Evelyn Blumenberg
Professor of Urban Planning
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Jon Christensen
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
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J.R. DeShazo
Founding Director of LCI and Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs (UT Austin)
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C.J. Gabbe
Associate Professor (Santa Clara University)
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Kian Goh
Associate Professor of Urban Planning
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Silvia R. González
Director of Research, Latino Politics & Policy Institute
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Veronica Herrera
Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Political Science
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Sara Hughes
Senior Policy Researcher (RAND)
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Faith Kearns
Director of Research Communication (Arizona State University)
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Liz Koslov
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
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Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Dean of the Luskin School and Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning
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Adam Millard-Ball
Professor of Urban Planning
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Sanjay K. Mohanty
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Paul Ong
Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies
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Jisung Park
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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Will Rafey
Assistant Professor of Economics
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Deepak Rajagopal
Associate Professor; Director, Leadership in Sustainability Certificate Program
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Gaurav Sant
Professor and Henry Samueli Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Kirsten Schwarz
Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Health Sciences
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Brian Taylor
Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy
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Bharat Venkat
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Institute for Society & Genetics
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Yifang Zhu
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
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