Senior Fellows Leadership Program 1997-2016
Gisselle Acevedo (Senior Fellow 2011-2012) Bruce Beardsley Consultant, Former President/CEO, Para Los Niños (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) Consultant on International Affairs; Tufail Ahmad Former International Policy Consultant, American (Senior Fellow 2007-2008) Embassy in Tirana, U.S. Department of State Co-Founder, Maryland Muslim Council; Former Diplomat in Residence, UCLA School of President, Euro-America Shipping & Trade Public Affairs
Fred Ali Honorable Anthony C. Beilenson (Senior Fellow 2011-2012) (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) President and CEO, Weingart Foundation Former Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives, D-California Eloise Anderson (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Peter D. Bell Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Families; Former Director, California Department of Senior Research Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Social Services Organizations, Harvard Former President and CEO, CARE U.S.A. Byron G. Auguste (Senior Fellow 2006-2007) Honorable Kimberly Belshé Managing Director & Co-Founder at (Distinguished Policy Fellow 2008-2009) Opportunity@Work; Former Partner, McKinsey & Executive Director, First 5 Los Angeles; Company; Co-founder, Hope Street Group Former Senior Policy Advisor, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC); Former Secretary, California Thomas Backer Health and Human Services Agency (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) President, Human Interaction Research Institute Warren Bennis (Deceased) (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) Gary G. Bagley Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, (Senior Fellow 2010 through 2012) Marshall School of Business, University of Southern Former Counselor for Management Affairs, U.S. California Embassy Madrid, U.S. Department of State; Diplomat in Residence, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Ambassador José Luis Bernal (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Randy Barth Mexican Ambassador, Switzerland; Former Consul (Senior Fellow 2015-2016) General of Mexico, Mexican Consulate General, Los Founder and CEO, Think Together Angeles
Honorable Theodore C. Barreaux Ken Bernstein (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) Strategy Advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, Principal City Planner, Policy Planning and Historic Department of the Navy; Former Director of Oversight Resources Division of the Los Angeles Department of and Evaluation, Office of Multifamily Housing City Planning
Assistance Restructuring (OMHAR), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Kafi Blumenfield (Senior Fellow 2015-2016) Honorable Karen Bass Founding Executive Director, Discovery Cube Los (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) Angeles U.S, House of Representatives, CA-47 Speaker Emeritus, California Assembly, D-Culver City; Former Executive Director, The Community Coalition
Anita M. Bock Frances Cairncross (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Chief Deputy of Administration, The United States Chair of Court, Heriot-Watt University; Former Rector, District Court; Former Director, Los Angeles County Exeter College; Former Management Editor, The Department of Children and Family Services Economist
Marc Boucher The Right Honourable Kim Campbell (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) Former Délégué, Québec Government Office, LA Secretary General, Club of Madrid; Visiting Professor of Practice, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Honorable Marvin Braude (Deceased) Harvard University; Former Consul General of Canada, (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) Canadian Consulate General, Los Angeles; Former Distinguished Practitioner, School of Policy, Planning, Prime Minister of Canada
and Development, University of Southern California; Former Councilmember, City of Los Angeles Michael C. Camuñez (Senior Fellow 2014-2015) Danielle Brazell President of ManattJones Global Strategies
(Senior Fellow 2015-2016) General Manager, Department of Cultural Affairs, City David M. Carlisle of Los Angeles (Senior Fellow 2007-2008) President, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Jan Breidenbach Science; Former Director, Office of Statewide Health (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Planning and Development Former Executive Director, Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing (SCANPH) Honorable M. Robert Carr (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Kent Briggs Professor of Congressional ethics, Graduate School of (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Political Management, George Washington University; Executive Director, Council of State Governments – Of Counsel, Dow Lohnes & Albertson, PLLC; WEST; Former Executive Director and Senior Fellow, Former Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives, Center for the New West D-Michigan
Derick W. Brinkerhoff Jay Carson (Senior Fellow 2011-2012) (Senior Fellow 2010-2011) Distinguished Fellow, International Public International and American policy advisor and Management, RTI International strategist; Former Executive Director, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group; Senior Advisor to Honorable Jim Brulte Bloomberg Philanthropies; Former Chief Deputy (Distinguished Policy Fellow 2005-2006) Mayor; Office of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Partner, California Strategies & Communications, Villaraigosa
LLC; Chairman, California Republican Party; Former Republican Leader, California State Senate Guillermo Cespedes (Senior Fellow 2011-2012) Greyson Bryan Creative Associates International, Former Director, (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Gang Reduction and Youth Development, Office of Of Counsel, O’ Melveny & Myers LLP Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Elise Buik Robert S. Chase (Senior Fellow 2006-2007) (Senior Fellow 2006-2007) President and CEO, United Way of Greater Senior Economist, World Bank, Social Capital Section
Los Angeles Honorable Nelba Chavez Philip Burgess (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) Senior Executive Advisor, Moving Organizations Ahead; Former Administrator, Substance Abuse and President, The Annapolis Institute Mental Health Services Administration, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services Edmund J. Cain
(Senior Fellow 2012-2013) Vice President, Grant Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Senior Fellows Program 1997-2013
Harry Samuel Chittick Denise Dresser (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) President, Center Stage Consulting Group; Professor, Department of Political Science, Instituto Former Producer, ABC News Tecnológico Autónomo de México; Political Columnist, Reforma Carol Chodroff (Senior Fellow 2015-2016) Alain Dudoit Opportunity Youth Director, Los Angeles Alliance for (Senior Fellow 2005-2006) Children’s Rights Former Consul General, Canadian Consulate General in Los Angeles Patricia T. Clarey (Senior Fellow 2006-2007) John Emerson Chief State Health Programs and Regulatory Relations (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) Officer, Health Net Inc.; Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Ambassador to Germany; President, Personal California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Investment Management, Capital Guardian Trust Company; Chairman, Music Center Board of Directors; Paul F. Conrad (Deceased) Former Deputy Assistant to President Bill Clinton (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) Editorial Cartoonist, Los Angeles Times Thomas Epstein (Senior Fellow 2015-2015) Molly Joel Coye Vice President, Public Affairs, Blue Shield of (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) California Social Entrepreneur in Residence, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation; Former Chief Cecilia V. Estolano Innovation Officer, UCLA Health System; Founder (Senior Fellow 2006-2007) and CEO, Health Technology Center; Former Director, Partner, Estolano LeSar Perez Advisors, LLC; Former California Department of Health Services Chief Executive Officer, Community Redevelopment Agency, City of Los Angeles Thomas G. David (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Angela Evans Senior Strategist, Community Clinics Initiative; (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) Former Director of Organizational Learning and Clinical Professor in Public Policy Practice Evaluation, Marguerite Casey Foundation; Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Former Executive Vice President, The California Former Deputy Director, Congressional Research Wellness Foundation Service, Library of Congress
Honorable Gray Davis P. Lamont Ewell (Distinguished Policy Fellow 2005-2006) (Senior Fellow 2007-2008) Of Counsel, Loeb and Loeb, Los Angeles; Former City Manager, City of Compton; Former City Former Governor, California Manager, City of Santa Monica
Gavin de Becker John Fairbank (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) President, Gavin de Becker & Associates Principal and Partner, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, and Associates Frank del Olmo (Deceased) (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Denise Fairchild Associate Editor, Los Angeles Times (Senior Fellow 2008-2009) President, Emerald Cities Collaborative; Cástulo de la Rocha Former President and CEO, Community (Senior Fellow 2008-2009) Development Technologies Center President and CEO, AltaMed Health Services Corporation Colonel Karl Farris (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) David Devlin-Foltz Founding Director, U.S. Army Peace Keeping Institute (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) Director, Aspen Planning and Evaluation Program Kathay Feng (Senior Fellow 2011-2012) Executive Director, California Common Cause
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Senior Fellows Program 1997-2013
Jonathan Fielding Steven Roy Goodman (Senior Fellow 2011-2012) (Senior Fellow 2007-2008) Director, Public Health and Health Officer, Los Angeles Educational Consultant and Admissions Strategist, County; Professor, Health Services and Pediatrics, UCLA Top Colleges Fielding School of Public Health John L. Gray Yolie Flores (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) (Senior Fellow 2010-2011) Former President and CEO, Autry National Center CEO, Communities for Teaching Excellence Former Vice President, Los Angeles Unified School Linda Griego District Board of Education (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) President, Griego Enterprises, Inc. Honorable Matthew K. Fong (Deceased) Former Deputy Mayor, Los Angeles Mayor Tom (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) Bradley; Former President and CEO, Rebuild L.A. Special Counsel, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP; Former President, Strategic Advisory Group; Joseph Haggerty Former Treasurer, State of California (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) Chief Operating Officer, United Way of America; William Fujioka Former President, United Way of Greater Los Angeles (Senior Fellow 2014-2015) Former Los Angeles County Chief Executive Officer Philip Hart, Ph.D. (Senior Fellow 2007-2008) Honorable William Fulton Former Executive Director, Urban Land Institute, (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Los Angeles; Founder, Hart Realty Advisors; Former Director, San Diego Planning Department; Vice ULI Managing Director for Diversity and Inclusion; President, Policy and Programs, Smart Growth Former Professor and Institute Director, University of America; Former Mayor, City of Ventura, CA; Massachusetts Boston President and Director of Research, Solimar Research Group Lon Hatamiya (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) Honorable Warren Furutani Director, LECG, LLC (International Consulting Firm); (Senior Fellow 2012-2013) Former Executive-in-Residence, UC Davis Graduate Former California Assemblymember, 55th District School of Management; Former Secretary, California Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency Robert Garcia (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) Honorable Judith E. Heumann Executive Director, The City Project (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) President, Heumann and Associates Nathan Gardels Former Disability Advisor, The World Bank; Former (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Senior Advisor, Nicholas Berggruen Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education Institute on Governance; Editor-in-Chief, New Perspectives Quarterly (NPQ), Elizabeth G. Hill Global Viewpoint – Los Angeles Times Syndicate (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Former Legislative Analyst, Legislative Analyst’s Wendy G. Garen Office, State of California (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) Executive Director, Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Karen Hill-Scott (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) Gail Goldberg President, Karen Hill-Scott & Company (Senior Fellow 2010-2011) Executive Officer, Urban Land Institute, Los Angeles Stanley R. Hoffman Former Director, Los Angeles Planning Department (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) President, Stanley R. Hoffman Associates, Inc. Honorable Susan Golding (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) Elwood Hopkins President and CEO, Child Abuse Prevention (Senior Fellow 2010-2011) Foundation in San Diego; Former Mayor, City Managing Director, Emerging Markets, Inc. of San Diego
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Senior Fellows Program 1997-2013
Allen Tat Yan Huie Eric J. Jolly (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) President & Chief Executive Officer President, Science Museum of Minnesota; China Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc.; Former Former, President and Senior Scientist, Educational Managing Partner, BizExpress Holdings Limited Development Center, Inc.
Harold L. Hurtt Steve Juarez (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) Former Chief of Police, City of Houston Police Associate VP and Director, University of California Department State Governmental Relations; Former Director of Financial Management, The J. Paul Getty Trust Hasan Ikhrata (Senior Fellow 2009-2010) Frank Karel (Deceased) Executive Director, Southern California Association of (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Governments (SCAG) Former Vice President, Communications Department, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Tobi Inlender (Senior Fellow 2005-2006) Honorable Richard Katz Executive Director, Dispute Resolution Services, Inc.; (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) Former Executive Director of Los Angeles Hillel; Founder, Richard Katz Consulting, Inc. Former Assistant Vice Chancellor, External Affairs, Former California Assemblymember UCLA Madeline P. Janis Xandra Kayden (Senior Fellow 2005-2006) (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) Executive Director, Jobs to Move America; Former Lecturer, Academic Affairs/Bellarmine College of Executive Director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Liberal Arts, Loyola Marymount University; Former Economy (LAANE) President, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles
David Janssen BongHwan Kim (Senior Fellow 2005-2006) (Senior Fellow 2009-2010) Former Chief Administrative Officer, County of Malin Burnham Center for Civic Engagement; Former Los Angeles Executive Director, Multi-Cultural Collaborative General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Frances Jemmott Neighborhood Empowerment, City of Los Angeles (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) Principal and CEO, Jemmott-Rollins Group; Former Ambassador Betty King (Senior Fellow Director, Community and Women’s Health, California 2002-2003) Wellness Foundation United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva; Former Senior Advisor to the Carol Jenkins President, The California Endowment; Former U.S. (Senior Fellow 2012-2013) Ambassador, United Nations Economic and Social Senior Vice President, World Learning, International Council, U.S. Department of State Development and Exchange Programs Peter Kovach Earl S. Johnson (Senior Fellow 2006-2007) (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Former Diplomat-in-Residence, UCLA School of Former Director, Office of Family Assistance Public Affairs; Public Diplomacy Specialist, Administration for Children and Families U.S. Department of State; Former Counselor for Public Department of Health and Human Services; Former Affairs, American Embassy, Islamabad-Pakistan Associate Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, CA Health and Human Services Agency Honorable Sheila Kuehl
(Distinguished Policy Fellow 2008-2009) Honorable Kevin Johnson Supervisor, Los Angeles County; University of (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) California Regents’ Professor, UCLA Luskin School of Mayor, City of Sacramento Public Affairs; Former Senator, California State Founder, St. HOPE Corporation; Senate, D-Santa Monica Former NBA All-Star, Phoenix Suns
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Senior Fellows Program 1997-2013
Edward Kulakowski Abraham Lowenthal (Senior Fellow 2008-2009) (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) Diplomat-in-Residence, UCLA School of Public Founding President, Pacific Council on International Affairs; Counselor for Public Affairs, Warsaw Policy Embassy, U.S. Department of State; Chair, Board of Directors, U.S.-Polish Fulbright Commission Frank I. Luntz (Senior Fellow 2009-2010) Stewart Kwoh CEO, The Word Doctors; Chairman Emeritus, Luntz (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Malansky Strategic Research President and Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California Jennifer M. Luray (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Jack Kyser (Deceased) Director of Public Policy and Government, Abbott (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) Laboratories; Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Los Barbara A. Mikulski Angeles County Economic Development Corporation John W. Mack Ambassador Martha Lara (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) Fomer President, Los Angeles Police Department, Former Consul General of Mexico, Consulate General Board of Commissioners; Former President, Los of Mexico in Los Angeles Angeles Urban League
J. Kenneth Lee Honorable Ken Maddox (Senior Fellow 2006-2007) (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) Senior Advisor, Bureau of Economic Growth, Former Member, California State Assembly, R-Central Agriculture and Trade, United States Agency for Orange County International Development Michael M. Mahdesian Mia Lehrer (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) (Senior Fellow 2012-2013) Chairman of the Board, Servicon Systems, Inc.; President, Mia Lehrer + Associates Former Deputy Assistant Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Lauren LeRoy (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Peter Manzo Former President and CEO, Grantmakers In Health (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) President and CEO, United Ways of California Mary Leslie Former Executive Director, Southern California Center (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) for Nonprofit Management President, Los Angeles Business Council William Martin Thomas A. Levin (Senior Fellow 2012-2014) (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) Consul General, Karachi, Pakistan, U.S. Department of Former Senior Vice President, WellPoint Health State; Diplomat in Residence, UCLA Luskin School of Networks, Inc. Public Affairs
Joan Ling Melissa Martinez (Senior Fellow 2008-2009) (Senior Fellow 2015-2016) Real estate advisor and policy analyst in urban UCLA Luskin Diplomat in Residence, Former Deputy planning; Former Executive Director, Community Press Attaché, U.S. Embassy Mexico City, U.S. Corporation of Santa Monica Department of State
Michelle Los Banos Meryl Marshall-Daniels (Senior Fellow 2014-2015) (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Senior Advisor on Diversity and Outreach for the Department President, Two Oceans Entertainment Group; of State; Former Diplomat in Residence; Deputy Division Former President, Academy of Television Arts and Chief, Cultural Programs Division, Bureau of Educational Sciences and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Senior Fellows Program 1997-2013
Vilma Martinez Patt Morrison (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) (Senior Fellow 2011-2012) U.S. Ambassador, Argentina Op-Ed Columnist/Writer, Los Angeles Times; Host, Former Partner; Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP; Former “Patt Morrison,” 89.3 KPCC, Southern California President and General Counsel, Mexican American Public Radio Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) Michelle Mrdeza Sylvia Mathews Burwell (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Cornerstone Government Affairs; former President, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; Former MXM Consulting, LLC; Former Staff Director, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, Bill & Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Committee on Melinda Gates Foundation; Former Deputy Director of Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Dee Dee Myers Jim McDonnell (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) EVP Worldwide Corporate Communications and Sheriff, Los Angeles County; Former Chief of Police, Public Affairs, Warner Bros.; Former White House City of Long Beach Press Secretary, Clinton Administration
Gregory F. McGinity Honorable Michael Nash (Senior Fellow 2006-2007) (Senior Fellow 2007-2008) Executive Director, The Broad Foundation Retired Presiding Judge, Los Angeles Juvenile Court
Therese W. McMillan Jim Newton (Senior Fellow 2011-2012) (Senior Fellow 2008-2009) Acting Administrator, Federal Transit Administration Advisor, UCLA Public Outreach Programs and Lecturer, UCLA Communications Department; Former Mary L. McNeil Editor-at-Large, Los Angeles Times (Senior Fellow 2014-2015) Senior Operations Officer and Team Lead, Global Honorable Mary Nichols Governance Practice, The World Bank. (Senior Fellow 2009-2010) Chair, California Air Resources Board Matthew Miller (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) Steve Nissen Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company; Nationally (Senior Fellow 2015-2016) Syndicated Columnist, Tribune Media Services Senior Vice President, Legal & Government Affairs, NBC Universal Honorable Cindy Miscikowski (Senior Fellow 2005-2006) Barbara Nunberg Managing Partner, The Ring Group; Former (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) Councilmember and President Pro Tem, Los Angeles Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia School of City Council International and Public Affairs; Former Sector Manager, Public Sector and Governance, East Asia and Dan E. Moore Pacific Region, The World Bank Group (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) Former Program Director and Senior Advisor to the Richard F. O’Donnell Office of the President, W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) President, Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Honorable Carlos J. Moorhead Excellence; Former Director, Governor’s Office of (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Policy and Initiatives, State of Colorado Former Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives, R-California Don Oberdorfer (Deceased) (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Edwin Morley-Fletcher Journalist-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor, (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Chair and Councilor, Dipartimento di Studi Politici, Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Diplomatic Facolta di Scienze Politich, Università degli Studi di Correspondent Emeritus, The Washington Post Roma “La Sapienza”
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Senior Fellows Program 1997-2013
Rev. Dr. Clyde W. Oden, Jr. Patricia Ploehn (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) (Senior Fellow 2008-2009) Senior Pastor, Bryant A.M.E. Church; Former Former Director, Los Angeles County Department of President and CEO, WATTSHealth Systems, Inc. Children and Family Services
Warren Olney Thomas Porter (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) Radio Host and Executive Producer, To the Point and Former California State Director, AARP Olney in L.A., KCRW-FM and Public Radio International Honorable Larry Pressler (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Torie Osborn Chairman and CEO, Pressler Group, Inc.; (Senior Fellow 2008-2009) Former Senator, U.S. Senate, R-South Dakota Principal Deputy for Policy and Strategy, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; Former Deputy Mayor, Michele Prichard Office of Mayor Antonio Villaragosa; Former Chief (Senior Fellow 2007-2008) Civic Engagement Officer, the United Way of Greater Director, Common Agenda, Liberty Hill Foundation Los Angeles Honorable Curt Pringle Honorable Rod Pacheco (Senior Fellow 2010-2011) (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) Curt Pringle & Associates; Former Mayor, City of Former District Attorney, Riverside County; Anaheim; Former Member and Speaker of the Former Member, California State Assembly, R- California State Assembly Riverside Todd S. Purdum Mona Pasquil (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) National Editor and Political Correspondent, Vanity Commission Appointments Secretary, Office of Fair; Former Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Governor Jerry Brown New York Times
Honorable Fran Pavley Barry Rand (Distinguished Policy Fellow 2006-2007) (Senior Fellow 2014-2015) CA State Senator (D); Former Member, California Former President and CEO, AARP State Assembly, D-Agoura Hills; Former Mayor, City of Agoura Hills Sushma Raman (Senior Fellow 2010-2011) Claire Peeps Former President, Southern California Grantmakers (Senior Fellow 2012-2013) Executive Director, Durfee Foundation Honorable Ed Reyes (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) Honorable Amy M. Pellman Former Councilmember, City of Los Angeles (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) Judge, Superior Court of CA; Former Deputy District Andrea Rich (Deceased) Attorney, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Office; Former Legal Director, The Alliance for Board of Trustees, UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute Children’s Rights Former President and Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Former Executive Vice Chancellor Katherine Perez-Estolano and Chief Operating Officer, UCLA (Senior Fellow 2009-2010) Partner, Estolano LeSar Perez Advisors, LLC; Honorable Keith Richman (Deceased) Executive Director, Urban Land Institute, Los Angeles (Distinguished Policy Fellow 2006-2007) District Council Former Member, California State Assembly, R- Northridge Honorable Jan Perry (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) Honorable Colin Robertson General Manager, Economic & Workforce (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Development Department; Former Councilmember, Minister (Advocacy) and Head of Washington City of Los Angeles Secretariat, Canadian Embassy, Washington DC Former Consul General, Canada
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Senior Fellows Program 1997-2013
Rita Robinson (Senior Fellow 2010-2011) David H. Shinn Chief Deputy Executive Officer, Los Angeles County (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) Board of Supervisors; Former General Manager, City Adjunct Professor, Elliott School of International of Los Angeles Department of Transportation Affairs, George Washington University; Former Diplomat in Residence, UCLA School of Gregory Rodriguez Public Affairs; Former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia (Senior Fellow 2005-2006) Publisher and Founding Director of Zócalo Public Donna L. Shirley Square; Sunday Columnist, Los Angeles Times; (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) Irvine Senior Fellow, New American Foundation Director, Experience Science Fiction; Former Assistant Dean, College of Engineering, University of Philip J. Romero Oklahoma; Former Manager, Mars Exploration (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Program, NASA Fellow, Pacific Research Institute; Former Dean, Charles H. Lundquist College of Business, University Jane Silverman of Oregon; Former Chief Economist and Deputy (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Cabinet Secretary, California Governor’s Office President, Jane Silverman and Associates, LLC; Former Executive Director, Association of Junior Jean M. Ross Leagues International, Inc. (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Program Officer, Ford Foundation; Fomer Executive William E. Simon, Jr., Director, California Budget Project (Senior Fellow 2009-2010) Co-Chairman, William E. Simon & Sons, LLC Robert K. Ross (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) James A. Smith President and CEO, The California Endowment (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Vice President and Director of Research and Rigo J. Saborio Education, Rockefeller Archive Center (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) Former Waldemar A. Neilson Professor of CEO, St. Barnabas Senior Services Philanthropy, Center for Public Nonprofit Leadership, Georgetown University Tony Salazar (Senior Fellow 2011-2012) Stephanie A. Smith President of West Coast Operations, McCormack (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) Baron and Salazar Senior Vice President, Head of Online Banking, Wells Fargo Bank David Sanders (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) Steve Soboroff Executive Vice President of Systems Improvement, (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Casey Family Programs; Former Director, Los Angeles President, Los Angeles Police Commission; Member, County Department of Children and Family Services Board of Directors of the Weingart Foundation; former Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Playa Vista Carol Schatz (Senior Fellow 2007-2008) Johng Ho Song President and Chief Executive Officer, Central City (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Association of Los Angeles Executive Director, Koreatown Youth and Community Center, Inc. Molly Selvin (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Marvin Southard Assistant Director, Leadership Academy for (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) Development, Stanford; Former Adjunct Professor of Director of Mental Health, Los Angeles County Law, Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs, Department of Mental Health Southwestern School of Law; Former Editorial Writer and Research Director, Los Angeles Times; Former Erroll G. Southers Policy Analyst, RAND (Senior Fellow 2005-2006) USC Associate Director of Research Transition DHS National Center for Risk & Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE); Former Deputy Director, Homeland Security, California Office UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Senior Fellows Program 1997-2013
Janis Spire Tanya Tull (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) (Senior Fellow 2005-2006) Executive Director, The Alliance for Children’s Rights President/CEO; Partnering for Change; Former President/CEO, Beyond Shelter, Inc.; Founder, Para Louis Strike Los Niños (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) President, Strike & Company, Inc.; Jack Valenti (Deceased) Former President and CEO, Modernfold, Inc. (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Former CEO, Motion Picture Association of America, Honorable Cameron Smyth Inc.; Former Advisor, President Lyndon Johnson (Senior Fellow 2012-2013) California Assemblymember, 38th District Honorable John Van de Kamp (Senior Fellow 2012-2013) Ann Marie Tallman Of Counsel, Mayer Brown; (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) Former California Attorney General Former President and General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Theodore Van Dyk (MALDEF); Former Senior Vice President, Fannie (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) Mae Columnist, Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Former White House and State Department Official John Y. Tateishi (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) Arturo Vargas Former National Executive Director, Japanese (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) American Citizens League Executive Director, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund Peter J. Taylor (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Richard Verches President, ECMC Foundation, Education Credit (Senior Fellow 2002-2003) Management Corp.; Former Executive Vice President Executive Director, Los Angeles County Workforce and CFO, Business Opportunities, University of Investment Board; Former International Human Rights California; Former Managing Director, Lehman Lawyer, United Nations Brothers Honorable Antonio R. Villaraigosa Donald Terpstra (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) Former Mayor, City of Los Angeles; Former Former Diplomat-in-Residence, UCLA School of Councilmember, Los Angeles City Council; Speaker Public Affairs; Former Counselor for Public Affairs, Emeritus, California State Assembly U.S. Embassy, Panama Robert Wang Jeff Thindwa (Senior Fellow 2005-2006) (Senior Fellow 2001-2002) Senior Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of Senior Civil Society Specialist, The World Bank State; Diplomat-in-Residence, UCLA School of Public Affairs; Former Economic Counselor Ministe Robin Toma (Senior Fellow 2007-2008) Y. Bill Watanabe Executive Director, Los Angeles County Commission (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) on Human Relations; First Vice President, International Executive Director, Little Tokyo Service Center, Inc. Association of Official Human Rights Agencies; California Advisory Committee member, U.S. Civil Honorable Diane Watson Rights Commission (Senior Fellow 2010-2011) Former Congresswoman, California’s 33rd District Honorable Esteban E. Torres (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Susan Way-Smith (Deceased) Consultant, Garcia and Torres; Former Congressman, (Senior Fellow 2003-2004) U.S. House of Representatives, D-California Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Urban Education Partnership Thomas Tseng (Senior Fellow 2006-2007) Principal and Co-Founder, New American Dimensions
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Senior Fellows Program 1997-2013
Adlai Wertman (Senior Fellow 2006-2007) Professor of Clinical Social Responsibility, University of Southern California; Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Chrysalis
Honorable Herb Wesson, Jr. (Senior Fellow 2004-2005) Council President, Los Angeles City Council; Speaker Emeritus, California State Assembly, D-Culver City
Martin R. Wilson (Senior Fellow 1997-1998) Principal, Wilson-Miller Communications, Inc.; Former Managing Director, Public Strategies, Inc.
Kenneth Wollack (Senior Fellow 2000-2001) President, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
Howard Wolfson (Senior Fellow 2013-2014) Former Deputy Mayor, Office of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Jerry Wong (Senior Fellow 1998-1999) Former Assistant Regional Census Manager, U.S. Census Bureau
Honorable Michael K. Woo (Senior Fellow 1999-2000) Dean of College of Environmental Design, Cal Poly Pomona, Former Councilmember, Los Angeles City Council
Val Zavala (Senior Fellow 2007-2008) Vice President, News and Public Affairs, KCET
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Senior Fellows Program 1997-2013