Sep 24, 20213 min
Updated: Sep 25, 2021
By ONME Newswire
Carolina Reid is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Faculty Research Advisor for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, Carolina worked for a year at the Center for Responsible Lending. Before that, Carolina served as the Research Manager for the Community Development Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for six years. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MA and PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Samir Gambhir works as a geographic information systems (GIS) researcher and manager of Opportunity Mapping program at the Othering & Belonging Institute. Prior to joining the Othering & Belonging Institute, Samir worked as GIS Manager for Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR), Toronto. Prior to CGHR, he worked as Senior GIS Researcher at The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University under John's leadership. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 2003 with a Masters degree in City and Regional Planning.
Ned Resnikoffis the policy manager of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. He is a policy analyst who most recently worked as a fiscal and policy analyst at the California Legislative Analyst Office in Sacramento. Before that, Ned was a journalist with bylines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, NBC News, and other publications. He holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.
Matthew Lewis is the communications director at California Yimby. From 2008 through 2012, he was Director of Communications for the ClimateWorks Foundation, an international philanthropic effort launched by the Hewlett and Packard Foundations. During his tenure at ClimateWorks, he co-founded Climate Nexus. He also co-led the Risky Business Project, an effort to quantify and communicate the economic risks of climate change in the U.S. Matthew is a YIMBY homeowner who believes there’s plenty of room on his block for more neighbors.