Board of Directors
Yolanda Arias
Board TreasurerManaging Attorney, East Office, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Gary Blasi
Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA, active public interest lawyer and advocate
Jan Breidenbach
Adjunct Associate Professor of Planning, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
Daniel Flaming
PresidentDan has been with the Roundtable since 1991. Before that he worked for Los Angeles County, 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 50 research projects at the Roundtable.
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
John Grant
President of UFCW Local 770, member of the United Food and Commercial Workers since 1976
Betty Hung
Staff Director for the UCLA Labor Center, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Center for Labor Research and Education
Jennifer Ito
Board ChairProject Manager, USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity
Jasleen Kohli
Director, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA Law School
Kokayi Kwa Jitahidi
BOARD VICE CHAIRPolicy Director, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
Joan Ling
Real Estate Advisor and Urban Planning Policy Analyst
Ali Modarres
Director and Professor, Urban Studies, University of Washington Tacoma
Yasmin Tong
Founding Principal of Yasmin Tong Consulting, focused on affordable housing production and preservation
Abel Valenzuela
Professor of Chicano Studies and Urban Planning and Director of UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
