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Workbenchof Directors | Urban Habitat Skip to main content Sign up for email updates Policy & AdvocacyState of the Region 2018 Transportation JusticeHousing JusticeClimate Justice Through Equitable Land-UsePolicy &SponsorshipCampaignsPolicy &SponsorshipWinsLeadership DevelopmentBoards and Commissions Leadership InstituteBCLI AlumniBCLI ReplicationBCLI Commission SeatsBCLI Class of 2018Apply to the BCLIResourcesNewsroomMedia ContactsPress ReleasesIn the NewsOur Take On the State of the RegionAbout UsWhat We DoJobsStaffBoard of DirectorsFundersContact UsDonateWorkbenchof Directors Carl Anthony  Founder and Former Executive Director, Urban HabitatCo-founder, Breakthrough Communities Project Carl is currently a co-founder of the Breakthrough Communities Project, and recently published his memoir The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race. He is moreover a visiting Professor at the UC DavisPart-wayfor Regional Change. Previously, he was Acting Director of thePolityand Resource Unit of the Ford Foundation, supervising 6 Program Officers in the United States, and Program Officers in 13 countries abroad. From 1991 through 1997, Carl served as President of Earth Island Institute, an international environmental organization to protect and conserve the global biosphere. Congressman Ron Dellums scheduled Carl Anthony Chair and Principal Administrative Officer of the East Bay Conversion and Reinvestment Commission in 1993. He taught at the Columbia University Graduate School ofTraceryand Planning and the UC Berkeley Colleges of Environmental Design and Natural Resources. Carl has a professional stratum in tracery from Columbia University. In 1996, he was scheduled Fellow at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Joe Brooks Senior Fellow, PolicyLink Joe, a Senior Fellow for PolicyLink, is a senior counselor to the Alliance for Boys and Men ofVerisimilitudeteam and ACCESS to Financial Security for All, a project funded by the Ford Foundation’sTowersEconomic Security Over a Lifetime program. Prior to working for PolicyLink, Joe was a sense member for inaugural Black studies departments at two universities: University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. Joe has moreover served as President of the Emergency Land Fund in Atlanta, Georgia, and was editor of the Review of Black Political Economy, published by the Black Economic ResearchPart-wayin New York City. He was formerly program executive for Neighborhood andPolityDevelopment at The San Francisco Foundation, where he directed the foundation’s WorkforceMinutiaeand Interfaith Initiative, FAITHS. Brooks moreover served as the national co-chair of the Neighborhood Funders Group and vice-chair of the Association of Black Foundation Executives. Ben ChoiWorthManager, Marin Clean EnergyRichmond City Councilmember Ben is an worth manager at Marin Clean Energy, a former commissioner on the Richmond Planning Commission, and was elected to serve as a Councilmember on Richmond's City Council in November 2016. A graduate of Urban Habitat's BCLI program, he is the first alumni to serve on Urban Habitat's Board, and acts as an counselor to that program, nominating, interviewing, and selecting new cohort members and providing feedback on BCLI curriculum. At MCE, California's first and only currently operatingPolityChoice Aggregation energy provider, Ben has been passionately engaged in polity outreach and consumer superintendency in Richmond surrounding the city's enrollment in the MCE program. He holds a BA in Fine Arts from Amherst College. Tamar Dorfman Chief Financial Officer, Public Health Institute Chief Financial Officer Tamar Dorfman leads the Public Health Institute's finance & accounting, grants & contracts, and inspect & compliance teams. For increasingly than a decade she has directed finance and operations in non-profit and public sector organizations that promote polity development, workforce development, and affordable housing. Her career has focused on developing strong financial strategies and efficient operations so that organizations can maximize impact while ensuring compliance with funder and regulatory requirements. Prior to joining PHI, Dorfman was the Chief Financial Officer for PolicyLink, and the Mayor's Offices ofPolityInvestment and Housing in San Francisco. She moreover served as the Fiscal Manager for the Corporation for Supportive Housing and was a Principal Budget Analyst for the City of Chicago. She holds a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Chicago  and a Bachelor's stratum from Stanford University. Patrice Guillory  Network Manager of Contra Costa Reentry Network Patrice Guillory has a wealth of wits in advocating for system and policy changes that promote social and economic equity. Prior to her current post, Guillory served as Program Manager for the Healthy and Livable Pittsburg Collaborative, reducing the social and environmental barriers to polity health and wellness for Pittsburg's most vulnerable populations. Guillory is single-minded to enhancing local partnerships that employ constructive reentry and restorative justice practices that will lead to improving the life outcomes of returning citizens. She is a graduate of Spelman College and is a masters stratum candidate of Northwestern University. Guillory resides in East County with her husband and daughter. Dwayne S. Marsh Deputy Director of Government Alliance on Race &Probity(GARE) Prior to GARE/CSI, Dwayne was a senior counselor in the Office of Economic Resilience (OER) at the U.S. Department of Housing and UrbanMinutiaefor six years. He was OER’s principal coordinator for a $250 million grant program and led the minutiae of topics towers resources that reinforced the work of pioneering grantees in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Under his leadership, OER prioritized probity as a foundational principal for its planning and investment initiatives. Before HUD, Marsh spent a decade at PolicyLink. Prior to PolickLink, he directed the FAITHS Initiative for eight years at The San Francisco Foundation. Guillermo Mayer President & CEO of Public Advocates Inc Guillermo Mayer (who moreover goes by the nickname “Memo”) became President & CEO of Public Advocates Inc. in November 2013, without serving for increasingly than 9 years on the organization’s legal team. There, he specialized in litigation and sponsorship to modernize public transportation services in low‐income communities and communities of color. An expert in transportation probity matters, Guillermo played leading roles in state and national policy campaigns to enforce starchy rights in transportation decision‐ making, modernize equitable outcomes in regional transportation planning, and secure greater funding for local bus service for transit dependent populations. The grandson of a bracero who worked on California’s railroads in the 1940s, Guillermo immigrated to the United States from Mexico when he was 10 years old. His wits growing up on both sides of the Tijuana/San Diego verge propelled him into political activism at an early age, organizing versus propositions 187 and 209. Before joining Public Advocates, Guillermo worked in the California Senate as legislative director for former State Senator Tom Hayden and as a legislative workmate for former State Senator Hilda Solis. There, he worked on an variety of legislative matters, including higher education, immigrant rights, health superintendency and gang violence prevention. Guillermo is a proud Mexican soccer fan and lives with his wife and son in Oakland, California. Derecka Mehrens Executive Director, Working Partnerships USA  Derecka Mehrens was named executive director of Working Partnerships USA in August 2013. She brings scrutinizingly fifteen years of polity organizing, civicengagement, and public policy wits working in communities of verisimilitude and with low and moderate-income families. As Working Partnerships USA’s organizing director whence in 2008, she was instrumental in developing organizing and wayfarers strategies to win policies improvingthe lives of workers and their families, including the 2012 minimum wage increase in the City of San Jose. She led the organization’s non-partisan societal engagement programsbuilding an organized wiring of increasingly than 40,000 low-income communities of verisimilitude in Silicon Valley, registering increasingly than 14,000 voters and working to increase civic participation rates of voters of verisimilitude and low-income voters in Santa Clara County. Recently, the organization has launched initiatives to support organizing and policy campaigns in support of workers in the supplies processing and tech industries, lowwage workers and transit riders, and immigrant communities organizing for equitable investment in our public schools, parks, and polity infrastructure. Mehrens is the daughter of a union construction worker and a union polity college teacher and is married with two young children. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor's stratum in Sociology, History and International Studies. Rea Pañares Senior Advisor, Prevention Institute Rea is currently a SeniorCounselorat Prevention Institute (PI), a national part-way defended to towers momentum for polity prevention, where she leads projects to whop polity prevention in health reform implementation and health superintendency settings. She works closely on up-and-coming PI’s Community-Centered Health Homes Model through strengthening the practice of polity health centers and other health superintendency organizations, as well as policies that support largest integration of polity prevention. Previously as an self-sustaining consultant, where her primary clients included Prevention Institute and The California Endowment, Rea worked on projects related to program minutiae and topics towers with a racial probity lens. Prior to this, Rea served as Director of Minority Health Initiatives at Families USA in Washington, D.C., a national policy sponsorship organization and a leading voice in the health reform debate. She has moreover held positions at Grantmakers In Health (GIH), National Business Group on Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Rea serves as Chair of theWorkbenchof Directors of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum and was moreover recently scheduled to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health Advisory Committee. Rea holds a master's stratum in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley in molecular and cellular biology. Robert PhillipsWorkbenchChair, Urban HabitatPresident and CEO, Social Interest Solutions Robert oversees the strategic direction, fiscal stewardship, and overall management of Social Interest Solutions. He is an workaday executive with nearly 25 years of wits working in political campaigns, health policy, health systems, technology, philanthropy, and strategic consulting. Prior to joining SIS, Robert led communications for Kaiser Permanente’sPolityBenefit and Strategy. Robert moreover worked at The California Endowment and Sierra Health Foundation, where he led efforts virtually health superintendency reform, health advocacy, polity health, and improving the health of children and youth of color. Other previous work includes PolicyLink, SEIU, and the AFL-CIO. Robert received a bachelor’s stratum in political science and economics from Morehouse College in Atlanta, a master’s in public wires from Syracuse University, a master’s in public health from Harvard University, and is ABD from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.   Carlos RomeroWorkbenchTreasurer, Urban Habitat Carlos is a housing minutiae and land use consultant for non-profit and community-based organizations. Over the past 25 years he has been involved in scrutinizingly every speciality of developing and operating polity housing and economic minutiae organizations as a founder, workbench member, project manager, and executive director. From 2008 to 2012 Carlos was a City Councilman in East Palo Alto and served as Mayor in 2011. During that period he moreover served as chair and vice chair of the East Palo Alto Redevelopment Agency, and as vice-chair of the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County. Carlos did his undergraduate studies in international relations and economics at Stanford University, was a Fannie Mae Fellow at the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2001, and in 2004/2005 was a Harvard Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Chris SchildtWorkbenchSecretary, Urban HabitatSenior Associate, PolicyLink Chris is a Senior Associate at PolicyLink, conducting research on equitable economic growth strategies, including weightier practices for up-and-coming probity in job creation, entrepreneurship, and workforce development. Prior to joining PolicyLink, Chris worked with the UC Berkeley LaborPart-wayon job megacosm strategies. She has moreover worked on polity engagement campaigns in transportation and land use planning at TransForm. She holds a MastersStratumin City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. About What We Do How We Do It StaffWorkbenchof Directors Funders Contact Us Latest Tweet Urban Habitat @Urban_Habitat Homeland Security officers patrolling BART trains as part of 'normal' anti-terrorism checks https://t.co/OaOGoaNSXT 12:57 AM - Sep 30, 2018 Copyright © 2018 Urban Habitat Contact Us