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Yolanda Arias

Managing Attorney, East Office, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

Photograph of ERt Board Member Gary Blasi, courtesy of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the UCLA School of Law. Photo appears in the article

Gary Blasi

Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA, active public interest lawyer and advocate

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Jan Breidenbach

Board Secretary-Treasurer

Adjunct Associate Professor, Housing & Community Development, Occidental College

Juan De Lara

Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Daniel Flaming 2023, enlarged, cropped, Auto-Leveled in Photoshop

Daniel Flaming

President Emeritus

Dan co-founded the Roundtable in 1991, and led it up to 2025. Before that he worked for the County of Los Angeles, California, coordinating delinquency prevention, managing community development and affordable housing programs, and administering job training and research programs. He has a Ph.D. in urban studies and has led more than 100 research projects at the Roundtable.

Photograph of ERt Board Member Fernando Gaytan, courtesy of her Linkedin.com profile webpage.

Fernando Gaytan

Senior Attorney, Earthjustice, Los Angeles Office. Litigation and advocacy aimed at ending dependency on fossil fuels and creating equitable zero-emissions solutions in California and beyond.

Photograph of ERt Board Member Ruthie Gilmore.

Ruthie Gilmore

Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences; Associate Director, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Critical Resistance Organizer, California Prison Moratorium Project

Photograph of ERt Board Member Jennifer Ito.

Jennifer Ito

Board Chair

Research Director, USC Dornsife Equity Research Institute (ERI)

Photograph of ERt Board Member Yasmin Tong, courtesy of the CTY Housing, 2022. Yasmin Tong is President and founder of CTY Housing.

Yasmin Tong

Board Vice Chair

Principal of CTY Housing, committed to creating and preserving livable communities that enable people to stabilize and grow

Photograph of ERt Board Member Abel Valenzuela, Jr., courtesy of the UCLA - IRLE Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, 2022.

Abel Valenzuela

UCLA Dean of Social Sciences, Professor of Urban Planning and Chicana/o Studies; formerly director of UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Photograph of ERt Board Member Mary-Jane Wagle, courtesy of her Linkedin.com profile webpage.

Mary-Jane Waglé

Co-Executive Director and Board Chair, Women Organizing Resources, Knowledge & Services (W.O.R.K.S.)

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