UCLA Luskin alumnus Sean Kennedy has been appointed deputy secretary of housing policy at the California Housing and Homelessness Agency, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Oct. 15.
Kennedy earned both a doctorate in urban planning and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA. He also served as a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA’s California Center for Sustainable Communities from 2018 to 2019.
Before his appointment, Kennedy served as deputy director of energy investments at the California Strategic Growth Council, where he previously worked as a special projects analyst. Before joining state government, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2019 to 2022.
His career spans climate and energy policy, urban planning and sustainable development, including earlier roles with the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and the World Agroforestry Centre.
