APA Los Angeles Board Members
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Executive Committee
director@apalosangeles.org
Los Angeles Area Manager
Chen Ryan Associates
Tony Mendoza is a native Angeleno (born in San Pedro) who started his planning career in the early 90’s as an employee transportation coordinator for the County of San Diego. Since then he has led a focused career in transit and transportation planning for both small and mega-projects. Prior to joining Chen Ryan Associates in Los Angeles as the Los Angeles Area Manager, Tony worked full time on the California High-Speed Rail program as the Deputy Director of Planning and Integration. Tony spent nearly two decades in Portland Oregon working at TriMet and at the MPO, Metro, and returned to his home town of Long Beach eight years ago, with his wife and (now grown) three children. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration with an Emphasis in City Planning from San Diego State University.
Executive Committee
directorelect@apalosangeles.org
Mobility Programs Officer
City of Long Beach
Fern Nueno, AICP, LEED AP, has over fifteen years of municipal government experience in urban planning and economic development. Ms. Nueno works for the City of Long Beach as the Mobility Programs Officer, focusing on active transportation and micro-mobility projects and programs. Ms. Nueno’s professional interests include livability, equity, placemaking, and sustainability. Ms. Nueno holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master of Business Administration with a Specialization in Entrepreneurship and Family Business Enterprise from Louisiana State University Shreveport.
Executive Committee
admin@apalosangeles.org
Transportation Planner
HNTB
Elenna Salcido is a Transportation Planner with HNTB in their Downtown Los Angeles office. She has worked on a variety of rail transit and multimodal projects in Southern California, including feasibility studies, alternatives analyses, and environmental documents. Elenna is a lifelong resident of Southern California, having attended elementary through grad school in the region, and is passionate about improving transit and active transportation here.
Membership & Inclusion and Executive Committees
membership@apalosangeles.org
City of Long Beach
Executive Committee
policy@apalosangeles.org
Senior Environmental Specialist
LA Metro
Andrina Dominguez is a Senior Environmental Specialist at LA Metro with seven years of experience in climate change mitigation and adaptation planning and program implementation, strategic sustainability planning and reporting, environmental planning, environmental regulatory compliance and construction monitoring. She received her Master of Public Policy from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and her B.S. in Policy, Planning and Development with a minor in Environmental Studies also from the Price School at USC. Andrina was honored as a member of Mass Transit Magazine's 40 Under 40 Class of 2020 and holds an Envision Sustainability Professional credential.
Executive Committee
finance@apalosangeles.org
Transportation Planner
AECOM
Pamela Lee is a Land Use and Transportation Planner at AECOM with 6 years of experience in land use, environmental and transportation planning in dense urban areas including multi-modal transportation planning, environmental planning, open space planning, design guidelines, corridor studies, and regional policy development. Her goal is to create sustainable and great places by encouraging active transportation, complete streets and transit-oriented land use patterns and loves exploring cities by foot.
Programs & Professional Development and Executive Committees
programs@apalosangeles.org
Principal Planner
City of Redlands
Catherine has more than a decade of municipal planning experience serving the cities of Yorba Linda, Fontana, Pomona, and Redlands where she is currently the Principal Planner. Prior to joining the public sector, she also did private consulting for two years. She has worked on a wide range of current planning and advanced planning projects. Catherine was the APA Los Angeles Section Student Representative from UCLA in 2002-2004. She received her masters degree in Urban Planning from UCLA, and two bachelor degrees from UC Irvine in Environmental Analysis and Design and Studio Art.
Programs & Professional Development and Executive Committees
profdev@apalosangeles.org
City of San Fernando
Programs & Professional Development and Executive Committees
profdev@apalosangeles.org
Associate Transportation Planner, AICP
Arup
Nina is an associate planning leader at Arup. She currently leads the wayfinding and user experience team in Los Angeles and nationally. Over the past 12 years at Arup, including 10 in New York, she has been involved in a wide range of transportation projects throughout the U.S. and internationally, looking for creative ways to activate streets and neighborhoods through intuitive and memorable placemaking and wayfinding. She received a Master of Science in Transportation Engineering from U.C. Berkeley as well as a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan.
Communications Committee
pio@apalosangeles.org
Senior Lead Consultant
WSP
Michael is an accomplished urban designer/planner and is a Senior Lead Consultant with WSP. Prior to joining WSP, Michael was a Senior Urban Designer/Planner with the City of Bellevue Washington, and was a Senior Urban Designer and Campus Planner with Perkins & Will. He brings a strong passion for advancing racially-equitable approaches and outcomes to planning from his time in the Pacific Northwest, where he served as Chair of the Seattle Planning Commission and was a member of the Seattle Design Review Board during a period of intense regional growth mixed with increasing climate change-related stressors. Michael holds a bachelor of science in city and regional planning from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a master of architecture from Pratt Institute.
Equity Director
equity@apalosangeles.org
West Region Planning Manager
STV, Inc.
Communications Committee
sponsorship@apalosangeles.org
Smart Cities Program Manager
City of Long Beach
Ryan Kurtzman is the Smart Cities Program Manager for the City of Long Beach. His experience includes developing community programs and policies that leverage technology to improve connectivity, mobility, digital equity, and economic outcomes for all residents. He also leads the City's open data and data governance programs. Before that, Ryan served as a Policy Fellow for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti where he brokered partnerships and created program evaluation tools to advance the City's Great Streets Initiative and park equity goals. He graduated from UCLA with a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning with a focus on transportation policy and planning, and serves on the Board for the American Planning Association Los Angeles chapter.
Communications Committee
socialmedia@apalosangeles.org
Associate Planner
Sagecrest Planning+Environmental
Jonathan Pacheco Bell (@c1typlann3r) is a practicing urban planner with over 20 years of experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors spanning the fields of planning, architecture, and community libraries. He’s the creator of Embedded Planning. The praxis that situates the work of planners on the ground to increase public participation for historically marginalized communities through street-level engagement. Its maxim is: We Cannot Plan From Our Desks! After 14 years as an Embedded Planner in LA for local government and community-based organizations, in 2021 he joined Sagecrest Planning+Environmental, where he leads a variety of projects including housing and homelessness policy development, streamlining ADU ordinances, and community engagement for long-range planning and entitlement projects. Jonathan previously served on the APA Social Equity Task Force where he worked to develop the report, Equity in Planning: Building a Culture of Commitment and Professional Capacity. In addition to planning, Jonathan served his community as a Public Library Commissioner in the City of Pasadena from 2020 to 2021. He holds an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, an MLIS from San Jose State University iSchool, and undergraduate degrees in political science and architecture.
Young & Emerging Planners Committee
young-emerging@apalosangeles.org
Associate Planner
City of Glendale
Minjee Hahm works for the City of Glendale, as an Associate Planner. Previously, she was a planning intern at the City of Buena Park. Having grown up in Orange County for most of her life, she is still getting used to calling the LA/Glendale area her new home, but is excited to be a part of the “planning scene” in LA.
Young & Emerging Planners Committee
young-emerging@apalosangeles.org
Project Manager
Skid Row Housing Trust
Armeen is a planner passionate about the intersection of affordable housing and local infrastructure, and is focused on ways to ensure planning decisions serve disadvantaged communities.
He is currently a Project Manager with the Skid Row Housing Trust as part of their Real Estate Development team. His most recent experience was as a Transportation Planner with HNTB Corporation, where he contributed to LA Metro’s Sepulveda Transit Corridor Feasibility Study. Prior to that he held a graduate student fellowship with Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation, where he researched various elements of the agency’s Strategic Plan update and helped evaluate unsolicited proposals from the private sector. His previous non-planning experience includes serving with Teach for America in Tulsa Public Schools, and working at a local civil rights law firm in Los Angeles.
Armeen holds both a Master of Planning and a Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in History and Politics from Hendrix College. He is currently an AICP candidate, and will obtain full AICP certification in 2020.
Membership & Inclusion Committee
university@apalosangeles.org
Transportation Planner
Fehr & Peers
Chelsea is a transportation planner with Fehr & Peers, specializing in pedestrian and bicycle planning, transportation safety, and transportation demand management. In addition to her infatuation with cities, Chelsea travels often and loves to cook. She has a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the Luskin School at UCLA and a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago.
Communications Committee
webmaster@apalosangeles.org
Advance Planning Manager
City of Culver City
Ashley Hefner Hoang is the Advance Planning Manager for the City of Culver City Community Development Department. Before working for Culver City, Ashley worked for the Cities of Pasadena and Anaheim as a contract planner and worked in the Monterey Peninsula for 10 years prior. Besides managing Culver City’s General Plan Update, she co-manages the Ballona Creek Revitalization Project and the City’s first travel demand forecast model. Her 12 years of experience in the public and private sectors in advance planning, current planning, environmental analysis, urban design, and historic preservation have enabled her to be a planning generalist. She holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, is a member of the Congress for New Urbanism and the American Institute of Certified Planners, served the American Planning Association Los Angeles Section as Vice-Director for Communications for 2017-2018 and is currently the Los Angeles Section Web Director.
Committee Representatives
Awards
Aimee Luan
Alison Pugash
Andrew Chang
Brianne Masukawa
Eddie Isaacs
Geoff Danker, AICP
Michelle Lynch
Noah Adler
Steven Keith, AICP
Communications
Diana De Los Santos
Alison Martinez
Membership & Inclusion
Alex Jung
Alex Yee
McKina Alexander
Cat Callaghan
Darnell Parker
Dina Abdulkarim
Fern Nueno, AICP, LEED AP BD+C
Jasmine Williams
Jessica Wuyek
Keith Martinez
Luis Escobedo
Melissa Lee
Tamika Simmons
Jimmy Tran
Programs & Professional Development
Richard Rojas, AICP
Christopher Rhie
Cristina Ungureanu
Darryl dePencier
David Schumacher
Doreen Zhao, AICP
Jaymes Dunsmore, AICP
John Swartz
Julie Cooper
Krzysztof Sadlej, AICP
Lisa Varon
Nate Cherry, AICP
Perla Solis
Roger Pardo
Samantha Miyamoto
Young & Emerging Planners
Alexandria Smille
Amanda McDaniel
Avery Kaplan
Bill Shondy
Diana Jimenez
Eddie Isaacs
Eleni Getachew
Gilbert G Gutierrez Jr
Haley Feng
Henry Phipps
Janet Rodriguez
Justin Hall
Kamille Parks
Latanya Roux
Lauren Huang
Marina Salazar
Michael Delgadillo
Morgan Hunlen
Natasha Kumar
Raquel Jimenez
Sabrina Alonso
Samira Jafarnejad
Samuel Garcia
Smyrna Caraveo
Taylor Anne Miller
Student Representatives
Cal Poly Pomona – Graduate: Caroline Seymore
Cal Poly Pomona – Undergraduate: Thomas Swanson
California State University, Northridge – Graduate: Miguel Hernandez
California State University, Northridge – Undergraduate: Shannon Kitover
Pitzer – Undergraduate: Olivia Mendoza
University of California, Los Angeles: Demetria Murphy
University of Southern California – Graduate: Dan Lamere
