UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Table of Contents UCCS Policy Experts Catalog
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Table of Contents
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Table of Contents Letter from Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sarah F. Anzia, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bernadette Austin, Center for Regional Change, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Roger Bales, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced . . . . . . . . . . 4 Amy Barnhorst, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Annette Bernhardt, Labor Center, University of California, Berkeley . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Marianne Bitler, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Noli Brazil, Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Catherine Brinkley, Department of Community & Regional Development, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Heather Bullock, Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance, University of California, Santa Cruz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Jennifer Burney, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Karen Chapple, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Maria Charles, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Wei-Chun Chin, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Daniel Ciccarone, Department of Family Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 David Cleveland, Environmental Studies Program and Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Janet Coffman, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 William Collins, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Frances Contreras, Department of Education Studies, University of California, San Diego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Miranda Dietz, Labor Center, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 i
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Table of Contents Ariel Dinar, School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside. . . . . . . . . 21 Jill Duerr Berrick, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Greg Duncan, School of Education, University of California, Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Robert Fairlie, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 George Farkas, School of Education, University of California, Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . 25 Michael Furlong, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 David Garcia, Terner Center for Housing Innovation, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Gail Goodman, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Benjamin Highton, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Jeffrey Hoch, Division of Health Policy and Management, Department of Public Health Sciences University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Hilary Hoynes, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Ken Jacobs, Labor Center, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Stephen Kaffka, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Martin Kenney, Community and Regional Development, Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Thad Kousser, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Charis Kubrin, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California, Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Margot Kushel, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Alana LeBrón, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Terry Lehenbauer, Department of Population Health & Reproduction, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Michael Lens, Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 ii
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Table of Contents Jonathan K. London, Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Laurel Lucia, Labor Center – Health Care Program, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Adriana Manago, Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Michael Manville, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Gloria Mark, Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine . . . . . . . . 45 Adam Millard-Ball, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Dan Miller, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Paavo Monkkonen, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Max Moritz, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Aimee Moulin, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Jann Murray-García, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California Davis Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 David Neumark, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Oladele Ogunseitan, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Valerie Olson, Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of California Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Daniele Piomelli, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Mica Pollock, Department of Education Studies Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence, University of California, San Diego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Ninez Ponce, Fielding School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, University of California, Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 A. Susana Ramírez, Department of Public Health Communication, University of California, Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Michael Reich, Department of Economics, iii
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Table of Contents University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Eleanor B. Schwarz, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Darien Shanske, School of Law and Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Ruth Shim, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Steven E. Shladover, Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Lynn Silver, Public Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Whendee Silver, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Sandra Simpkins, School of Education, University of California, Irvine. . . . . . . . . 66 Matthew Springer, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Michael Stoll, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Kathleen Tebb, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Elisa K. Tong, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Jessica Trounstine, Department of Political Science, University of California, Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Kristin Turney, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Kenneth B. Wells, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Leroy Westerling, Management of Complex Systems, University of California, Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Garen Wintemute, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Frederick Zimmerman, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 iv
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO July 1, 2020 To the California Policy Community: The University of California Center Sacramento (UCCS) is a system- wide program which advances the University’s mission of teaching, research and public service. UCCS accomplishes these goals through an integrated program of training for students; seminars and workshops for policymakers; and collaboration with state government. UCCS seeks to foster communication between UC scholars and state policymakers throughout the government, from the governor’s office and the Legislature to various state agencies, departments and commissions. UCCS disseminates the results of policy-relevant research by UC scholars through conferences, workshops, lectures and seminars at its facility in the heart of the Capitol community (and during the pandemic, through webinars). To further our public service objectives, we have now prepared the UCCS Policy Experts Catalog. The UCCS Policy Experts Catalog is organized alphabetically and includes over seventy faculty profiles from across the UC system with expertise ranging from poverty to climate change to the economics of education, and much more. These UC researchers have expressed direct interest in working with policymakers to interpret research findings and inform policy decisions. If you find an expert whose research interests align with your needs, please download and fill out the request form found on our website at https://uccs.ucdavis.edu/public-policy/policy-experts-catalog. Submit the request form by emailing it to [email protected]. You can expect to receive a preliminary response from UCCS staff within five business days. Sincerely, Richard L. Kravitz Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH Professor and Director, UC Center Sacramento 1
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Sarah F. Anzia Michelle J. Schwartz Associate Professor of Public Policy & Associate Professor of Political Science Goldman School of Public Policy University of California, Berkeley Research Interests American politics; state and local government; interest groups; political parties; public policy https://gspp.berkeley.edu/directories/faculty/sarah- anzia#about Sarah F. Anzia is the Michelle J. Schwartz Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies American politics with a focus on state and local government, interest groups, political parties, and public policy. Her book, Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups, examines how the timing of elections can be manipulated to affect both voter turnout and the composition of the electorate, which, in turn, affects election outcomes and public policy. Professor Anzia has also written about the politics of public pensions, women in politics, the historical development of electoral institutions, and the power of political party leaders in state legislatures. She has a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and an M.P.P. from the Harris School at the University of Chicago. 2
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Bernadette Austin Acting Director Center for Regional Change University of California, Davis Research Interests Community development; affordable housing; community engaged research; transportation and mobility https://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/people/staff/ bernadette-austin Bernadette Austin brings extensive experience in community development praxis and public-private partnerships to her role as Acting Director of the Center for Regional Change at the University of California, Davis. She works to build bridges across disciplines and support research that is community-engaged, policy-oriented, and equity-focused. Acting Director Austin has contributed to the establishment of the University of California, Davis Interdisciplinary Initiative, in which centers and institutes across campus bring together researchers from a variety of fields of study in quarterly dialogues about diverse topics. Her work managing outreach with off-campus partners from a variety of sectors informed the establishment of the University of California, Davis Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement. Acting Director Austin is currently working to activate the University of California Davis Policy Consortium. Prior to her work at the Center for Regional Change, she founded a consulting firm specializing in community development and has worked for an affordable housing developer, redevelopment agency, community development financial institution, and several nonprofit community health organizations. Her projects include Sacramento’s first true transit-oriented development, West Sacramento’s first urban farm stand, and the first project in the country to implement a program combining housing vouchers and health services for disabled adults. She holds a Master of Science in Community Development from the University of California, Davis and a Bachelor of Science in Community Health from St. Mary’s College of California. 3
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Roger Bales Distinguished Professor School of Engineering University of California, Merced Research Interests Water resources; climate solutions http://www.rogerbales.com/ Roger Bales is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering, a founding faculty member at the University of California, Merced, and has been active in water and climate-related research for over 30 years. His scholarship includes over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, in addition to presentations, book chapters, and reports. Currently, his work focuses on California’s efforts to build the knowledge base and implement policies that adapt our water supplies, critical ecosystems, and economy to the impacts of climate warming. He works with leaders in state agencies, elected officials, federal land managers, water leaders, nongovernmental organizations, and other key decision-makers to develop climate solutions for California. Distinguished Professor Bales is a fellow in the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a professor at the University of California, Merced since 2003, an Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley since 2013. 4
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Amy Barnhorst Acting Director Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of California Davis Health Research Interests Violence and suicide prevention; firearm policy; community mental health https://health.ucdavis.edu/team/psychiatry/22092/ amy-barnhorst---psychiatry-sacramento Dr. Amy Barnhorst is Vice-Chair for Community Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis. She is a member of the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society Mental Health Task Force, the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy, and the California Medical Society Firearm Violence Prevention Committee. Dr. Barnhort’s academic interests include violence and suicide prevention, firearm policy, and community mental health. 5
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Annette Bernhardt Director, Low-Wage Work Program Labor Center University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Low-wage work; enforcement of workers’ rights; accountable development http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/author/annette-ber- nhardt/ Annette Bernhardt is director of the Low-Wage Work Program at the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center, as well as a senior researcher at the University of California, Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Previously she was policy co-director of the National Employment Law Project, where she coordinated policy analysis and research support for campaigns around living wage jobs, enforcement of workers’ rights, and accountable development. A leading scholar of low-wage work, Dr. Bernhardt has helped develop and analyze innovative policy responses to economic restructuring in the United States. She was one of the principal investigators of the landmark study Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers, which documented high rates of minimum wage, overtime, and other workplace violations in the low-wage labor market. She has also been a leader in collaborating with immigrant worker centers and unions to develop innovative models of community-based research. Her current research focuses on domestic outsourcing, the gig economy, and the impact of new technologies on low-wage work. Dr. Bernhardt’s most recent book is the co-edited The Gloves-Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America’s Labor Market. 6
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Marianne Bitler Professor Department of Economics University of California, Davis Research Interests Effects of government safety net programs on disadvantaged groups; economic demography; health economics; public economics; economics of education https://economics.ucdavis.edu/people/bitler Marianne Bitler is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Fellow at IZA. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Her research focuses on the effects of the social safety net on poverty, income, human capital, and health in the United States. In addition, her research extends to family economics, education economics, and health economics. Professor Bitler has served on the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s panels evaluating new WIC food packages and expanding access to school nutrition programs using the American Community Survey (ACS). 7
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Noli Brazil Assistant Professor Department of Human Ecology University of California, Davis Research Interests Place and space; social, economic, and health inequalities https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/people/noli- brazil Dr. Noli Brazil is an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Development in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis. His research agenda spans multiple areas of inquiry connected by an interest in understanding the influence of place and space in generating social, economic, and health inequalities. His research has appeared in such publications as, Demography, American Journal of Epidemiology, PLoS One, and Population Space and Place. Dr. Brazil holds a Ph.D. in demography from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Science in statistics from Stanford University, and held post-doctoral positions at the Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality at Yale. 8
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Catherine Brinkley Assistant Professor Department of Community & Regional Development University of California, Davis Research Interests Planning for healthy communities; food security; healthy food access; diet-related health; land-use planning https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/catherine- brinkley Catherine Brinkley is an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Development in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Brinkley’s research centers around One Health, a concept that considers health shared among humans, animals, and the environment. She is a city planner (Ph.D.) who conducts spatial analyses to inform practice. She also has a public health degree in veterinary medicine (VMD). Her primary research is supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and seeks to build a scientific understanding of how cities work within their regions. Dr. Brinkley is primarily focused on understanding the public health and economic development consequences of how agricultural and urban lands interface. Her work is used internationally by the United National Food Agriculture Organization as well as local communities to guide plans and policies. 9
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Heather Bullock Professor and Director Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance University of California, Santa Cruz Research Interests Poverty and economic inequality; welfare policy; intersections of classism, racism, and sexism; policy attitudes; feminist psychology https://blumcenter.ucsc.edu/about/heather-bullock. html Dr. Heather Bullock is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Bullock’s research focuses on social psychological dimensions of economic (in) justice. She investigates how members of different socioeconomic groups understand and justify poverty and wealth, as well as their own relative status. Much of her work in this area examines how classist stereotypes and attributions for poverty influence support for various welfare and anti-poverty policies. Dr. Bullock also studies low-income women’s experiences in the welfare system, intersections of classism, racism, and sexism, and the impact of welfare reform on low-income families – of special concern is discrimination that occurs in settings in which low-income groups seek basic needs assistance (e.g., social services, medical care). She is the author of Women and Poverty: Psychology, Public Policy, and Social Justice and co-author of Psychology and Economic Injustice: Personal, Professional, and Political Intersections (with Bernice Lott). 10
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Jennifer Burney Assistant Professor School of Global Policy and Strategy University of California, San Diego Research Interests Air pollution; land use emissions; climate adaptation; global food security; mitigating climate change http://gps.ucsd.edu/faculty-directory/jennifer- burney.html Professor Jennifer Burney is an environmental scientist whose research focuses on simultaneously achieving global food security and mitigating climate change. She designs, implements and evaluates technologies for poverty alleviation and agricultural adaptation, and studies the links between “energy poverty” - the lack of access to modern energy services - and food or nutrition security, the mechanisms by which energy services can help alleviate poverty, the environmental impacts of food production and consumption, and climate impacts on agriculture. 11
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Karen Chapple Carmel R. Friesen Chair and Professor City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley Research Interests poverty; economic development; regional plan- ning; metropolitan spatial patterns; labor markets; community development; neighborhood change; gentrification; housing and land use regulation https://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/karen- chapple Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, where she also holds the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the U.S. and Latin America, with a focus on housing and economic development. Her recent books include Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions: Towards More Equitable Development (Routledge 2015, and winner of the John Friedmann Book Award); and Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, MIT Press, 2019). In fall 2015, Professor Chapple co-founded the Urban Displacement Project, a research portal examining patterns of residential, commercial, and industrial displacement, as well as policy solutions. In 2015, her work on climate change and tax policy won the University of California-wide competition for the Bacon Public Lectureship, which promotes evidence-based public policy and creative thinking for the public good. Dr. Karen Chapple also represents the University of California, Berkeley on the University of California Center Sacramento Faculty Council. 12
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Maria Charles Professor Department of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Research Interests gender inequalities; educational systems; labor markets https://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/maria-charles Maria Charles is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Broom Center for Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores gender inequalities around the world and the cultural and structural forces that sustain them in families, educational systems, and labor markets. Professor Charles has published extensively on the phenomenon of gender segregation, most recently on women’s underrepresentation in STEM fields globally. She is an elected member of both the Sociological Research Association and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, AAAS. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University. 13
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Wei-Chun Chin Professor Department of Bioengineering University of California, Merced Research Interests Marine environment; marine microgels; environ- mental pollutants https://www.ucmerced.edu/content/wei-chun-chin Dr. Wei-Chun Chin is a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Merced. Dr. Chin’s studies have focused on the application of polymer physics, microfabrication, and engineering principles to biological systems. The application of the theory and tools from engineering in his work has initiated many innovative and productive research projects. These studies have brought a better understanding of natural phenomena from the unique perspective of engineering. 14
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Daniel Ciccarone Professor Department of Family Community Medicine University of California, San Francisco Research Interests Drug use among marginalized populations; substance use disorders; opioid (including heroin and fentanyl) use and outcomes https://profiles.ucsf.edu/daniel.ciccarone Dr. Daniel Ciccarone, M.D., M.P.H., is a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is currently leading the Heroin in Transition study, which aims to examine the recent rise in heroin use and the expanding diversity of heroin source-forms and illicitly-made synthetic opioids and their relationship to increasing illicit opioid-involved mortality. Dr. Ciccarone’s work has been published in prominent journals, including JAMA, NEJM, PLoS Medicine, AJPH, JAIDS, and others. 15
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog David Cleveland Research Professor Environmental Studies Program and Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara Research Interests food-environment-health-equity nexus http://cleveland.faculty.es.ucsb.edu/Bio/bio.htm David A. Cleveland is a Research Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research and policy focus on how we can change our food system and diets to increase their mutually reinforcing contribution to human and community nutrition and health, climate and environmental stability, and social justice. Professor Cleveland’s current research on the contribution to this change of localizing food systems, increasing the proportion of whole plant foods in the diet, replacing sugar-sweetened beverages with tap water, and integrating food, climate, and health policies. He is a member of the UC Nutrition Policy Institute’s Research Consortium on Healthy Beverages and the UC Healthy Campus Network (HCN) Advisory Team, and leads the HCN Healthy Beverage Initiative research at UCSB. Professor Cleveland has previously worked with small-scale farmers and gardeners around the world, including in Ghana, Mexico, Pakistan, California, and Indian country (Hopi and Zuni). His latest books are Food Gardens for a Changing World (2019) and Balancing on a Planet: The Future of Food and Agriculture (2014). 16
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Janet Coffman Professor Department of Family and Community Medicine University of California, San Francisco Research Interests Supply and demand for health professionals; access to health professionals; impact of health insurance reform proposals on health professionals https://profiles.ucsf.edu/janet.coffman#narrative Janet M. Coffman is a Professor at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, Healthforce Center, and the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She has authored numerous publications on supply and demand for health professionals, access to health professionals, strategies for improving the geographic distribution and racial/ethnic diversity of health professionals, and the impact of health insurance reform proposals on health professionals. Professor Coffman also serves as a Vice-Chair of the California Health Benefits Review Program under which the University of California faculty analyze health benefit mandate bills introduced in the California State Legislature. She is the Deputy Director of the University of California San Francisco/University of California-Hastings Masters of Science Program in Health Policy and Law and teaches in the program. Professor Coffman received a Ph.D. in Health Services and Policy Analysis and a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Coffman also serves as the current chair of the UCCS Faculty Council. Dr. Coffman represents the University of California, San Francisco and serves as the current chair of the UC Center Sacramento Faculty Council. 17
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog William Collins Professor Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Climate Change; uncertainty of extremes; climate modeling; coupled models of the climate system; global climate models; solar and terrestrial radiation https://eps.berkeley.edu/people/william-collins Dr. William Collins is an internationally recognized expert in climate modeling and climate change science. His personal research concerns the interactions among greenhouse gases and aerosols, the coupled climate system, and global environmental change. At the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Collins teaches in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and directs the new Environmental Resilience. At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), he serves as the Director for the Climate and Ecological Sciences Division. Dr. Collins’s role as Chief Scientist in launching the Department of Energy’s Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME) program was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy Secretary’s Achievement Award on May 7, 2015. Dr. Collins was the lead author on the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. 18
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Frances Contreras Associate Professor Department of Education Studies University of California, San Diego Research Interests Education policy; equity and access for underrepresented students in education http://www-tep.ucsd.edu/discover/people/faculty/ contreras.html Dr. Frances Contreras is an Associate Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on issues of equity and access for underrepresented students in the education pipeline and the role of public policy in ensuring student equity across a P-20 continuum. Dr. Contreras’ recent books include: Achieving Equity for Latino Students, Expanding the Pathway to Higher Education through Public Policy and The Latino Education Crisis with P. Gandara. She was honored as an “Emerging Scholar” and the “Top 25 to Watch” among academicians in the United States by Diverse Magazine. More recently, Dr. Contreras was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award by the Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs for her work to address Latino student equity. 19
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Miranda Dietz Research & Policy Associate Labor Center University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Health policy; health care; health care reform https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/people/miranda- dietz/ Miranda Dietz is a research and policy associate at the Labor Center focused on health care and health reform in California. She is involved in the California Simulation of Insurance Markets microsimulation model (CalSIM). Her analyses have focused on churn in and out of insurance coverage and on the remaining uninsured in California. She received a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, and a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University. 20
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Ariel Dinar Distinguished Professor School of Public Policy University of California, Riverside Research Interests Water and environmental economics; water policy; climate change; regional cooperation https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/adinar Ariel Dinar is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside. His teaching, research, and policy work focus on economics and politics of water resources management and environmental consequences at local, regional, and global levels. Distinguished Professor Dinar recently authored a book titled Management of Transboundary Water Resources Under Scarcity: Managing Resource Use Across Political Boundaries. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Water Economics and Policy. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since then he spent 6 years at the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program in Davis and 15 years at the World Bank working on water economics and climate change issues before moving to the University of California, Riverside in 2009. 21
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Jill Duerr Berrick Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor School of Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Systems of care for children, families, elderly; family policy; child and family poverty; child abuse and neglect; foster care; kinship Care; child welfare services https://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/jill-duerr-berrick Jill Duerr Berrick serves as the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Berrick’s research focuses on the state’s relationship to vulnerable families, particularly those touched by the child welfare system. She has written or co-written eleven books on topics relating to family poverty, child maltreatment, and child welfare services and has written extensively for academic journals. Professor Berrick’s interests target the intersect between poverty, child development, parenting, and the service systems designed to address these issues. Her newest book, The Impossible Imperative: Navigating the Competing Principles of Child Protection, examines child welfare professionals and the morally contentious and intellectually demanding choices they regularly face in their work with children and families. 22
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Greg Duncan Distinguished Professor School of Education University of California, Irvine Research Interests School-entry skills and achievement; income inequality https://sites.uci.edu/gduncan/ Dr. Greg Duncan holds the title of Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. His recent work has focused on estimating the role of school-entry skills and behaviors on later school achievement and attainment and the effects of increasing income inequality on schools and children’s life chances. Dr. Duncan is part of a team conducting a randomized controlled trial assessing the impacts of income supplements on the cognitive development of infants born to poor mothers in four diverse U.S. communities. He was President of the Population Association of America in 2008 and the Society for Research in Child Development between 2009 and 2011. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. In 2015, he received SRCD’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy and Practice in Child Development. 23
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Robert Fairlie Professor Department of Economics University of California, Santa Cruz Research Interests Entrepreneurship; education; technology; inequality; labor economics; immigration https://people.ucsc.edu/~rfairlie/ Dr. Robert Fairlie is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research interests include entrepreneurship, education, information technology, inequality, labor economics, and immigration. He has received funding for his research from the National Science Foundation as well as numerous government agencies and foundations, and has testified before the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Department of Treasury, and the California State Assembly regarding findings from his research. Dr. Fairlie is routinely interviewed by the media (e.g., New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Public Radio) to comment on economic and policy issues. He received a Ph.D. and M.A. from Northwestern University and B.A. with honors from Stanford University. He has held visiting positions at Stanford University, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, and Australian National University. Dr. Robert Fairlie also represents the University of California, Santa Cruz on the University of California Center Sacramento Faculty Council. 24
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO George Farkas Distinguished Professor School of Education University of California, Irvine Research Interests Special education; minority disparate treatment; program evaluation; achievement gaps; reading interventions https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_ id=5675 George Farkas is a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, and a past president of the Sociological Research Association. He has authored or co-authored four books and more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Professor Farkas’ research has made significant contributions to understanding the school achievement gap for low income and ethnic minority students. His research was of the first to show that the achievement gap emerges early in childhood. His research has also examined students’ learning-related behaviors, and their causes, consequences, and relationship to the achievement gap. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and other foundations and agencies. 25
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Michael Furlong Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor Gevirtz Graduate School of Education University of California, Santa Barbara Research Interests School safety; student social emotional health https://education.ucsb.edu/michael-furlong Dr. Michael Furlong, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, is a past Interim Co-Dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and served as Associate Dean for Research. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association. Between 2008-2015, Dr. Furlong was the Editor of the Journal of School Violence and has co-edited the Handbook of Positive Psychology in the Schools. He works with colleagues at the University of California Santa Barbara International Center for School- Based Youth Development. He is also the principal investigator of the California Student Wellness Study, a mental health survey of 120,000 California students in grades seven through twelve. 26
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO David Garcia Policy Director Terner Center for Housing Innovation University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Local, state and federal housing policy engagement https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/whoweare David Garcia is the Policy Director for the Terner Center. He leads the center’s engagement in local, state, and federal housing policy and supports the generation of research-driven policy ideas, proposals, and papers. Director Garcia has also worked as an advocate in the Central Valley, serving on numerous boards and commissions related to a wide array of planning issues such as increasing cycling infrastructure, implementing smart growth policies, and developing incentives for infill growth. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as a Master’s in Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies in Baltimore, Maryland. 27
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Gail Goodman Distinguished Professor Department of Psychology University of California, Davis Research Interests child maltreatment; eyewitness memory; foster care; victims in court actions; trauma and memory https://psychology.ucdavis.edu/people/fzgoodmn Professor Gail S. Goodman is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Center for Public Policy Research at the University of California, Davis. She is widely credited with starting the modern scientific study of children’s eyewitness memory and child victims as witnesses in legal contexts. Professor Goodman publishes widely, has received numerous grants, and has been honored with many national and international awards. She has consulted with numerous governments and agencies throughout the world on policies and research concerning child victims in the legal system. Professor Goodman’s research falls into two major areas: memory development and children’s and adults’ abilities and experiences as victims/witnesses. 28
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Benjamin Highton Professor Department of Political Science University of California, Davis Research Interests American national politics; political behavior; elections; public opinion; research methods https://polisci.ucdavis.edu/people/bhighton After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Ben Highton worked for a year in Washington, DC, for a U.S. Senator as part of the American Political Science Association’s Congressional Fellowship Program. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of public opinion, elections, and research methods. His areas of expertise include voter registration, voter turnout, election law, and electoral reform. Professor Highton’s most recent book, Facing the Challenge of Democracy: Explorations in the Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Participation, (Princeton University Press 2011), provides a strong argument that the public is more engaged and rational in its voting than conventional wisdom holds. Professor Highton is also a member of the UCCS Faculty Council and regularly taught at UCCS between 2009 and 2015. 29
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Jeffrey Hoch Professor and Chief Division of Health Policy and Management Department of Public Health Sciences University of California Davis Health Research Interests Health services; prescription drug and cancer treatment costs; health of poor and vulnerable populations http://tiny.cc/JeffreyHoch Dr. Jeffrey Hoch is Professor and Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Management in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Associate Director of the Center for Health Care Policy and Research at the University of California Davis Health. Dr. Hoch is a health economist with extensive experience performing and interpreting cost-effectiveness analyses, particularly as applied to prescription drugs and cancer therapies. He is also an award-winning teacher and presenter, winning multiple teaching awards (e.g., from the Society for Medical Decision Making, the University of Toronto, etc.). Dr. Hoch teaches courses in health economics and researches value in health care. He has also contributed more than 185 peer-reviewed articles to the scientific literature. Dr. Hoch has given over 200 invited presentations in 15 countries across Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. 30
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Hilary Hoynes Professor of Public Policy and Economics Goldman School of Public Policy University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Tax policy; labor and employment; poverty & inequality; children, youth and families; government https://gspp.berkeley.edu/directories/faculty/hilary- hoynes Hilary Hoynes is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Hoynes specializes in the study of poverty, inequality, and the social safety net. She is a member of the American Economic Association’s Executive Committee, the Federal Commission on Evidence-Based Policy Making, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years, and the California Task Force on Lifting Children and Families out of Poverty. From 2011 to 2016, she was the co-editor of the leading journal in economics the American Economic Review. Professor Hoynes received her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1992 and her undergraduate degree in Economics and Mathematics from Colby College in 1983. 31
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Ken Jacobs Chair Labor Center University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Low-wage work; labor standards policies; health care coverage http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/author/ken-jacobs/ Ken Jacobs is the chair of the Labor Center, where he has been a labor specialist since 2002. His areas of specialization include low-wage work, labor standards policies, and health care coverage. He has recently worked on economic impact studies of proposed minimum wage laws for the cities of Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Jose, and conducted analyses of the public cost of low-wage work. Jacobs is the co-editor, with Michael Reich and Miranda Dietz, of When Mandates Work: Raising Labor Standards at the Local Level (University of California Press), an edited volume on the impacts of labor standards policies in San Francisco. Jacobs leads a multi- campus program providing research and technical assistance to consumer stakeholders and policymakers on the effects of the Affordable Care Act and measures to cover the remaining uninsured in California. Along with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles, he is consulting for Covered California on issues related to ACA implementation. His work has been covered in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and National Public Radio. 32
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Stephen Kaffka Extension Agronomist and Specialist Department of Plant Sciences University of California, Davis Research Interests Bioenergy; biofuels; biomass; crop ecology; agroecology https://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/people/ stephen-kaffka Dr. Stephen Kaffka is an extension agronomist and specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis, and he is Director of the California Biomass Collaborative. His research focuses on the sustainable use of biomass biomass from forestial, urban, and agricultural sources for energy and bioproducts. He has advised the California Air Resources Board, California Energy Commission and the California Department of Food and Agriculture on biomass energy and bioeconomy policies. He has also provided technical analysis in support of state policies, including most recently the Short-Lived Climate Pollution program and Clean Transportation Program. His latest research investigates alternative crops for dairy producers that use less water and improve nutrient management. He has also worked on agriculture and water quality projects, including the use of salt-affected lands and low-quality water supplies for biomass production using salt-tolerant grasses in the San Joaquin Valley of California, and agricultural and water quality issues in the upper Klamath Basin. 33
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Martin Kenney Distinguished Professor Community and Regional Development, Department of Human Ecology University of California, Davis Research Interests Digital platforms; venture capital; Silicon Valley innovative clusters; evolution of high-technology industries https://kenney.faculty.ucdavis.edu/ Martin Kenney is a Distinguished Professor in Community and Regional Development at the University of California, Davis, a Co- Director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, and Senior Fellow at the Research Institute for the Finnish Economy. He was the Arthur Andersen Distinguished Visitor at the University of Cambridge and have been a visiting scholar at the Copenhagen Business School, Hitotsubashi, Kobe, Stanford, Tokyo Universities, and University of California, San Diego. Distinguished Professor Kenney’s scholarly interests are in the online digital platforms, Silicon Valley, university-industry technology transfer, and venture capital industry. In 2015, he received the University of California Office of the President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Leadership for Presidential Initiatives in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. 34
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Thad Kousser Chair and Professor Department of Political Science University of California, San Diego Research Interests American politics; state and national politics; government reform; direct democracy; interest groups; mass media & politics https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty- directory/currently-active-faculty/kousser-profile. html Thad Kousser is a Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at the University of California, San Diego. He studies American state and national politics, government reform, direct democracy, interest group influence, and how politicians use social media. His books include The Logic of American Politics (CQ/Sage, 2018), Politics in the American States (CQ/Sage, 2018), The Power of American Governors (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, held the 2015 Flinders Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Political Science in Adelaide, Australia, is a recipient of the University of California San Diego Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, serves as co-editor of the journal Legislative Studies Quarterly, and has worked as a staff assistant in the California, New Mexico, and United States Senates. Dr. Kousser also represents University of California, San Diego on the University of California Center Sacramento Faculty Council. 35
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Charis Kubrin Professor Department of Criminology, Law, and Society University of California, Irvine Research Interests Crime and crime trends; immigration and crime; rap music and media, culture and crime; race/eth- nicity and violence https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/ckubrin/ Charis E. Kubrin is a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and (by courtesy) Sociology. She is also a member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network. Her research focuses on neighborhood correlates of crime, with an emphasis on race and violent crime. Recent work in this area examines the immigration-crime nexus across neighborhoods and cities, as well as assesses the impact of criminal justice reform on crime rates. Another line of research explores the intersection of music, culture, and social identity, particularly as it applies to hip hop and minority youth in disadvantaged communities. Her recent books include Introduction to Criminal Justice: A Sociological Perspective (2013) and Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics, and Injustice (2012). 36
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Margot Kushel Professor of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco Research Interests Homelessness; housing instability; prevention; homelessness and health https://profiles.ucsf.edu/margot.kushel Margot Kushel, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, the Director of the University of California, San Francisco Center for Vulnerable Populations and the University of California San Francisco Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. Dr. Kushel’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of homelessness and housing instability, with the goal of preventing and ending homelessness, and ameliorating the effects of homelessness on health. Her research seeks to inform clinical practice, programs, and policies. 37
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Alana LeBrón Assistant Professor Department of Chicano/Latino Studies University of California, Irvine Research Interests Structural racism and health; health of Latina/o communities; community-based participatory research https://communityresilience.uci.edu/alana-lebron/ Dr. LeBrón is an Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the implications of social inequalities for inequities in health and opportunities for intervention. Through qualitative and quantitative research methods, Dr. LeBrón’s scholarship examines the mechanisms through which racism shapes health inequities, and factors that disrupt these processes. Dr. LeBrón received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan School of Public Health after earning her Master’s in Public Health from Harvard University. 38
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Terry Lehenbauer Professor Department of Population Health & Reproduction University of California, Davis Research Interests Dairy cattle herd health and production medicine; risk management and animal health economics https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/terry-w- lehenbauer Dr. Terry Lehenbauer is a Professor and Director of the University of California Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center (VMTRC) in Tulare, as well as the Director for the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Center for Food Animal Health. Dr. Lehenbauer is currently involved in research to characterize the use of medically important antibiotics in dairy cattle and to improve the way that these antibiotics are used for therapeutic management of bacterial infections in cattle. 39
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Michael Lens Assistant Professor Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy University of California, Los Angeles Research Interests Community development; criminal justice; housing; labor and employment; low-income/ affordable housing https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/michael-lens Michael Lens is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, and the Associate Faculty Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Lens’s research and teaching explore the potential of public policy to address housing market inequities that lead to negative outcomes for low-income families and communities of color. This research involves housing interventions such as subsidies, tenant protections, and production. Professor Lens regularly publishes this work in leading academic journals and his research has won awards from the Journal of the American Planning Association and Housing Policy Debate. 40
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Jonathan K. London Associate Professor Department of Human Ecology University of California, Davis Research Interests Rural community development; environmental justice; community engaged planning https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/jonathan- london Jonathan London is an educator, researcher, and community-builder with over 25 years of experience in participatory research, rural community development, and community-engaged planning. He holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Brown University, a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science Policy and Management from the University of California, Berkeley. His research addresses conflicts and collaboration in natural resource and environmental management, with a particular emphasis on environmental justice in rural communities. Professor London directs the University of California, Davis Center for Regional Change, which serves as a catalyst for multi-disciplinary research that informs efforts to build healthy, prosperous, equitable, and sustainable regions in California and beyond. 41
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Laurel Lucia Director Labor Center – Health Care Program University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Health policy; economic impact of public policy changes; California budget http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/author/laurel-lucia/ Laurel Lucia is Director of the Health Care Program at the Labor Center, where she has worked since 2009 analyzing health care policy. Recent papers have examined the health coverage and economic impacts of the Affordable Care Act repeal on California, California’s Medicaid expansion, health insurance for California immigrants, and the remaining uninsured in California. She also analyzes the economic impact of public policy changes. Her work has been covered in the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, and National Public Radio. Laurel received a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005. 42
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Adriana Manago Assistant Professor Psychology Department University of California, Santa Cruz Research Interests Personal and social identities; psychology; child and adolescent development https://adrianamanago.sites.ucsc.edu/ Adriana Manago is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2011, she earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She studies the implications of communication technologies for three main psychosocial development issues during adolescence and the transition to adulthood: gender and sexuality, identity, and values. She also explores the balance of intimacy and autonomy in relationships with parents and peers. In addition, she also examines cultural change, communication technologies, and adolescent social development across cultures, including in an indigenous Maya community in Mexico, and in Arab and Bedouin communities in Israel. The goal of her research is to understand similarities and differences in the ways that adolescents and emerging adults in diverse cultural contexts take up communication technologies, such as social media, into their relationships and identity development. 43
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Michael Manville Associate Professor Luskin School of Public Affairs University of California, Los Angeles Research Interests Land use regulations; transportation policy; local public finance https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/michael-manville Michael Manville is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. His research examines land use regulations, transportation policy, and local public finance. Dr. Manville’s research has been published in planning, economics, urban studies, and sociology journals. He has received research funding from University Transportation Centers, the John Randolph Haynes Foundation, the Transit Center, and others. He has consulted for developers, environmental groups, local governments, and the United Nations. Dr. Manville has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Urban Planning, both from the UCLA Luskin. Prior to joining Luskin as a faculty member, he was an Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. 44
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