SPPD Alumni Association Board of Directors

Guadalupe (Lupe) C. Valdez, BA '83, MPA '85 (President)
Director, Public Policy and Community Affairs - Union Pacific Railroad

Carl Alameda, MPA '05, MPL '06
Management Analyst, City of La Canada Flintridge

Eric Batch, MPP ’00
Vice President, Advocacy - American Heart Association

Karin Berger Stellar, MPA ’00
Partner, Morris and Berger

Heidi Brandl, BS ’94, MRED/MBA ’03
Vice President, IHP Capital Partners

E. Felicia Brannon, MPA '95
Executive Director of Community & Local Government Relations, UCLA

Grace Cainoy, BS ’97, MPP ’99
Executive Director, Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles

Kirk Cartozian, MBA/MRED '05
Owner, Cartozian Associates Real Estate, LLC

Elsa Paola Chagolla, MPP '00
Chief of Staff, Mentor LA

Timothy J. Collins, FACHE, BS ’90, MHA ’95
Scripps Memorial Hospital

Debra DuRoff, CHE, MPA ’87
Director, West Coast Client Services - Premier Inc.

Shubharoop Ghosh, MPL '02
Associate, ImageCat, Inc.

Stephen K. Guine, MPP '96

Kimberly Hoffman, MPA ’91
Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Chapman University

John P. Keisler, MPA '05
Performance Management Analyst, City of Long Beach

Brian League, MPL ’89
Director of Entitlements, USC Capital Construction Development

Lori Meloch, BS ’87, JD ’91
Senior Counsel, State Bar of California - Client Security Fund

Susan O’Carroll, MPL ’81, Ph.D. ’89
President/Founder, Pareto Planning and Environmental Services

Mark Persico, MPL ’91
Principal, Persico Planning Partners

Nancy Pfeffer, MPP ’99
Program Manager, Southern California Association of Governments

Josh Rohmer MPL ’06

Jeff Schaffer, MPA ’87
Southern California Director, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.

Art Simonian MRED '99
Principal, Metro Investments

Renata Simril, MRED '99
Vice President, Forest City Development

Matthew (Mott) Smith, MRED ’99
Principal, Civic Enterprise Associates, LLC

Brissa Sotelo, MPP '06
Manger, External Affairs, Tesoro Corp. Los Angeles Refinery

Erroll Southers, MPA ’98
Chief of Counterterrorism, Los Angeles World Airports
Associate Director, Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism (CREATE)

Karin Berger Stellar, MPA ’00
Partner, Morris and Berger

Anthony Taylor, BS (PPMT) '97; JD '00
Attorney at Law, Aleshire & Wynders, LLP

Jeff Van Hoy, BS ’94, MHA ’97
Director, Strategic Planning - St. Joseph Hospital

Carolyn Williams, MPA ’82
Community Relations Manager, Southern California Gas Company