Education

• Juris Doctor: UCLA School of Law 1981
• Master of Arts: UCLA, School of Architecture and Urban Planning 1983 (My thesis was on the ideology of housing during the Great Depression.)
• Bachelor of Arts: UCLA 1978 History

Courses Taught

• URBS 150 – The Urban Scene
• URBS 460 – Legal Foundations of Planning
• URBS490 – Fieldwork

Professional Experience

Private practice of law in civil law (2002 to 2006) and volunteer on Los Angeles Legal Aid Foundation Private Attorney Involvement project in housing and consumer fraud related to housing (2004 to 2006)

Staff attorney, representing qualified persons in housing, education and employment matters, also, I was involved with access to justice issues and made presentations on fair housing and landlord tenant and section 8 matters. California Rural Legal Assistance. (12/97 to 6/2002)

Principal planner for the City of Destin, Florida. (1997) I prepared the evaluation and appraisal report for the City’s Comprehensive Growth Management Plan, and I drafted a Comprehensive Growth Management Plan for the City. I also worked on revisions of local regulations.

Senior Planner for the Department of Community Development, Martin County, Florida. I drafted the County’s nonconformities ordinance, prepared evaluation and appraisal reports for the housing and water and sewerage elements of the County’s Comprehensive Growth Management Plan, drafted the County’s amended housing and water and sewerage elements, prepared staff reports on proposed future land use changes, drafted a department procedures manual, and organized, wrote parts of and made the presentation to the Department of Community Affairs on the County’s sustainable community submission. (1995-1997)

Adjunct professor of law and planning, Florida Atlantic University, Graduate School of Urban and Regional Planning. (1997) American Bar Association CEELI project, as a volunteer reviewing proposed environmental legislation in Moldavia.

Private attorney, Ukiah, California. Contracted with the First District Appellate Project on child.