Institute Leadership

john a. powell

Director, OBI

Denise Herd

Associate Director, OBI

Stephen Menendian

Assistant Director & Director of Research, OBI

Ashlin Malouf-Gashaw

Deputy Director of Strategy and Program

Puanani Forbes

Chief of Staff

Cecilie Surasky

Director of Communications

Staff

Aoyuan (Eve) Liao

Data Scientist

Ashley Gallegos

Belonging Coordinator

Basima Sisemore

Researcher, Global Justice Program

Charlotte O'Keefe Stralka

Project Coordinator, Summer Fellowship Program

Charlotte Taylor

Administrative Coordinator

Christian Michael Ivey

Digital Communications Specialist

EJ Toppin

Staff Researcher

Eli Moore

Director, Community Power and Policy Partnerships Program

Ella Streng

Video Producer

Elsadig Elsheikh

Director, Global Justice Program

Emnet Almedom

Policy & Research Analyst

Erfan Moradi

Communications Associate

Evan Yoshimoto

Project Coordinator, Democracy & Belonging Forum

Hossein Ayazi

Policy Analyst, Global Justice Program

Jake Tompkins

Information Designer

Joe Ahrenholtz

Housing Task Force Coordinator

Jose Richard Aviles

Transportation Analyst

Joshua Cantong

Data Analyst, Equity Metrics Program

Joshua Clark

Senior Social Scientist

Julia McKeown

Campus Bridging Project Coordinator

Maile Munro

Housing Policy Associate

Marc Abizeid

Multimedia Associate

Miriam Juan-Torres González

Head of Research, Democracy & Belonging Forum

Mora Tulián

Assistant to the Director

Nicole Montojo

Housing Research Analyst

Olivia Araiza

Director, Network for Transformative Change

Rachelle Galloway-Popotas

Conference Director

Ramon Quintero

Equitable Planning Analyst

Río González

Research Associate, Network for Transformative Change

Robin Pearce

Faculty Cluster Coordinator

Samir Gambhir

Director, Equity Metrics Program

Sara Grossman

Director, Democracy & Belonging Forum

Sarah Syed

Transportation Project Manager

Sarah Crowell

Strategic Partner

Wendy Ake

Director, Just Public Finance

Senior Fellows

Bayo Akomolafe

Global Senior Fellow

Betsy Hodges

Senior Fellow

Julie Nelson

Senior Fellow, Government Alliance on Race and Equity

Mina Girgis

Senior Fellow, The Nile Project

Richard Rothstein

Senior Fellow

Yuria Celidwen

Senior Fellow

Student Assistants

Andre Soucy

Graduate Student Researcher

Cameron Fozi

Student Research Assistant

Hillary Nguyen Pham

Graduate Student Researcher

Rena Lu

Campus Bridging Project Assistant

Shahan Shahid Nawaz

Graduate Student Researcher

Sommer Iqbal

Graduate Student Researcher

Tarannum Sahar

Student Research Assistant

Tatum Hurley

Citations Assistant

Yomar Aguilar

Student Research Assistant

Zoe Klingmann

Graduate Student Researcher