Jim Suhr

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Jim Suhr, principal of James Suhr & Associates LLC, has focused on urban infill development throughout his 40+ year career in Southern California real estate.  Jim has been involved in developing a number of transit-oriented mixed-use projects, including The Culver Studios in Culver City and Wilshire Vermont Station in Koreatown, as well as industrial, office, apartment, condominium, hotel and historic rehab projects across Southern California.  Jim has provided management and advisory services to public and private sector clients including Hackman Capital Partners, Hilton Universal City, Four Seasons Hotels, the State Bar of California, the Port of Los Angeles, and many others.  Prior to forming JSA, he held positions with BRE Properties, Newhall Land & Farming, Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros., and The Ratkovich Company.  He is a graduate of UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and School of Urban Planning.

Howard Kozloff

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Howard Kozloff is a real estate developer, urban planner, and educator whose work bridges real estate, design, finance, and public-private partnerships. He is CEO and Founder of Noblespace, a development firm focused on innovation campuses, science and technology districts, and mixed-use environments that connect research, entrepreneurship, and community. As Principal and Founder at Agora Partners, Kozloff leads real estate strategy and implementation for public and private clients, shaping development and public space through entrepreneurial planning frameworks that align value creation with public benefit.

He previously co-founded HATCHspaces, a pioneering platform for life-science real estate in emerging innovation markets; and served as Director, Development Strategies and Director of Operations at Hart Howerton, focusing on real estate and planning strategies for large-scale urban and resort communities worldwide. Across these roles, Kozloff has built a reputation for translating complex urban, institutional, and market dynamics into actionable development strategies and memorable places.

Kozloff currently teaches in UCLA’s Master of Real Estate Development program, and previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California. His teaching links design thinking, financial modeling, and civic engagement to emphasize how built environments can be simultaneously economically viable and socially meaningful.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and Design of the Environment from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master in Urban Planning from Harvard University, and a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University. Through his professional and academic work, Kozloff continues to champion real estate as both a creative enterprise and a civic catalyst.

Anthony Mason

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Anthony Mason is the Founding Principal of AMA Project Management (an Anthony Mason Associatiates, Inc. Company), an Independent Project Management Consultancy established in 1984 and incorporated in 1987 in Los Angeles whose primary focus is the representation of Clients in the Project Management of commercial / non-profit projects of various types, scales and complexities.

In 1984, Tony created the Intent of Design IGMP/GMP Project Delivery Method as an alternative to Design/Bid/Build which was subsequently renamed by Harvard GSD as the “Integrated Project Management Approach” (IPMA) to Project Delivery in response to the challenges encountered on the Four Seasons Hotel Development in Los Angeles.

Since then, he has successfully completed approximately 130 projects utilizing this method that was the subject of a Publication by Harvard GSD in 2009 of the LMU William H. Hannon Library.

AMAPM’s project list includes:-

  • Four Seasons Hotel, Los Angeles
  • Loews Hotel (now Regent), Santa Monica
  • Bacara Resort & Spa (now Ritz Carlton), Santa Barbara
  • Beverly Hilton Hotel Renovation, Beverly Hills
  • Beverly Wilshire Hotel Renovation, Beverly Hills
  • LMU Life Sciences Building, School of Film and TV, Student Housing, Palm Court, Los Angeles
  • Atrium Office Development, El Segundo
  • DreamWorks Campus Development, Glendale (including the subsequent campus expansion)
  • Sony LOT Master Plan Projects, Culver City
  • LA Chargers Headquarters and Training Center, El Segundo
  • Sony Imageworks, Culver City
  • Warner Bros. Animation Studios, Glendale, Sherman Oaks and London
  • Warner Music and Warner Records Headquarters, Burbank
  • Endeavor and Paradigm Talent Agencies, Beverly Hills
  • GoodRx Headquarters, Santa Monica
  • JHA Projects: Goldenberg-Ziman, Factor Foundation, JEKMC Acute Psychiatric Care Facility, Fountainview Independent Living Facility, Reseda
  • Awesomeness TV Studios, Santa Monica
  • Inter Active Corporation Headquarters and Ticketmaster Headquarters, Sunset Blvd.
  • Extron Headquarters, Anaheim and Raleigh
  • Malibu Beach Inn
  • Del Toledo High School and Wildwood High School Renovations
  • Post Production Studios for TVN, Four Media, Ascent Media, Liberty Media, Burbank
  • Telepictures Live Audience Show Stages and Production Facility Phase 1 and Phase 2, Glendale

For a full list, see www.amapm.com

Prior to founding AMA in 1984 (and incorporating in 1987), Tony worked as a Senior Project Manager for Project Management Consultants, PMI/APC International in London, UK in the project management of commercial offices, retail galleria developments and industrial catering facilities, and as a London based project coordinator for a design/build contractor Mid Orient Technical Services / Mid Mac Corporation on multi-site Middle-Eastern projects in Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Iraq.

Prior to this, Tony worked for General Contractors in the UK (Sir Robert McAlpine and Wiltshire Construction, where he was a Construction Project Manager / Project Engineer focusing on Office, Department Stores and Hospitality Projects.

Alfred Fraijo Jr.

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Alfred Fraijo Jr. is the founder and CEO of the Somos Group. He founded Somos to
spearhead innovative projects for clients that require multi-disciplinary expertise in
planning and law with the goal of reimagining urban placemaking. He specializes in
managing the design and permitting of complex development projects for government
and private-sector clients.

Under his leadership, a team of planners and lawyers has developed some of the most
transformative planning and research projects in urban communities, spanning
commercial, residential, hospitality, and healthcare sectors. Prior to starting his own
firm, Alfred was a senior partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter and Hampton, LLP, where
he led the Real Estate and Land Use Practice team in Los Angeles and served on the
firm’s Executive Committee.

Alfred was born and raised in Los Angeles and is passionate about community service
and serves on prominent organizations advancing urban redevelopment and social
equity. He is a leader in the Latinx and LGBTQ communities, serving on the executive
boards of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the California Community Foundation, the LA
Phil, and For People of Color, a non-profit organization dedicated to growing diversity in
the legal profession. He also serves on the Board of Homeboy Industries, a nonprofit
that advocates for formerly incarcerated individuals who seek to reintegrate into society.
Alfred also is the founder of Inclusive Action for the City Inc., a multidisciplinary nonprofit
organization advocating for equitable land use and sustainable development policies.
Alfred has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a J.D. from Loyola
Marymount University

Aaron Greeno

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Aaron Greeno is a Founder and Managing Partner of Arselle Investments. Prior to Arselle,
Aaron served as a Partner and Head of the West Coast for Dune Real Estate Partners,
where he established and grew the West Coast office. He was responsible for originating
and evaluating new investment opportunities, executing value creation strategies, and
continuing to build and oversee Dune’s business and team in the region. In his nearly five
years at Dune, Aaron served on both the Operating Committee and Investment Committee
and played a key role in developing and implementing strategies and initiatives across the
firm.

Prior to joining Dune in 2020, Aaron was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he
was Co-Head of US Investments for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI),
overseeing investment activities across the portfolio and managing the investment team on
the West Coast. He began his career at Morgan Stanley in New York as an Associate in the
Real Estate Investment Banking Group in 2007, moving to the principal side in 2008, where
he invested in, and managed assets on behalf of, open and closed-ended funds with
various strategies including opportunistic, value-add, core, debt and special situations. In
2014, Aaron relocated to Los Angeles to focus on investment opportunities across the West
Coast where he had attended graduate school.

Aaron received a JD / MBA from the UCLA School of Law / Anderson School of Management
in 2007 and a BS from the University of Miami (FL) in 2003, where he graduated Cum Laude
and was a member of the 2001 National Championship football team. He currently serves
on the board of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and the Policy Advisory Board at the
Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Previously, he was a member of the Real Estate Advisory Board for the Miami Herbert
Business School. He is also a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and is a lecturer in
Real Estate Development at UCLA.

Joshua Schank

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Joshua Schank is a Managing Principal at InfraStrategies, a transportation and financial advisory firm, where he leads a practice focused on innovation, strategic planning, and technology. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Transportation Studies and an Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Research Associate at the Mineta Transportation Institute.

Prior to joining InfraStrategies and UCLA, Dr. Schank was the first-ever Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). Dr. Schank joined Metro in 2015 to establish the agency’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI), which is responsible for fostering innovations that improve mobility, equity and environmental outcomes across LA County. Dr. Schank led an office that shaped Metro’s high-level strategic vision, serving as a liaison to the academic community, designing, piloting and implementing innovative programs and policies, and engaging entrepreneurs and businesses to develop public-private-partnerships. Dr. Schank helped create and lead numerous transformative Metro projects including the Vision 2028 Strategic Plan, Metro Micro, Mobility on Demand, Metro’s Traffic Reduction Study, Better Bus, two Pre-Development Agreements for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor, a Public-Private-Partnership for the West Santa Ana Branch, and an aerial tram from Union Station to Dodger Stadium.

Dr. Schank previously served as President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a leading national transportation policy think-tank based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that he led the National Transportation Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center and has worked as a consultant for Parsons Brinkerhoff (now WSP) and ICF International. Dr. Schank served as Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) during the authorization of SAFETEA-LU and is the co-author of All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding. Dr. Schank holds a Ph.D in Urban Planning from Columbia University, and a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began his career working on behalf of the riders of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City and has never lost that spirit. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

 

Selected Publications

Panagopoulous, C. & Schank, J. (2007). All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding. CQ Press.

How to Imagine a Los Angeles Without Traffic: The City Has the Solutions to Congestion, Pollution, and Accidents—We Just Need to Use Them

Partnerships with Technology-Enabled Mobility Companies: Lessons Learned

Microtransit: A Good Idea Just Got Even Better

Free Transit: It All Depends on How

Transportation Equity – Says Who?

America’s Highways, Running on Empty

Air traffic control shouldn’t be a government responsibility

 

Isaac Opper

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Isaac M. Opper is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an applied microeconomist, who uses and develops a range of empirical techniques to shed light on important policy-relevant questions. Much of his work combines quasi-experimental variation with either economic theory or novel econometric techniques to better understand the full policy implications of educational interventions. His work has been published in academic journals (e.g., American Economic Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Nature Human Behavior, and PNAS), written about in popular media (e.g., New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Barrons), and cited by policy makers.

Prior to joining UCLA, he worked at RAND where he also conducted studies on a wide range of topics, including a number of reports on how the U.S. Army can best recruit, develop, employ, and retain talent. Dr. Opper received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree from Colby College.

 

For more information, please visit his personal website at https://sites.google.com/site/isaacopper/.

Carlo Medici

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Carlo Medici is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He is an applied microeconomist working in the areas of labor economics, political economy, and economic history. His research examines the economics of immigration, labor market institutions, and public sector organizations, drawing on both contemporary and historical contexts. He studies these questions empirically, leveraging administrative records, newly digitized archival datasets, and publicly available microdata.

Before joining UCLA, Carlo was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2024, and holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Bocconi University.

More information about his work can be found at carlomedici.com.

Daniel J. Benjamin

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I am a Professor in the Behavioral Decision Making Area at the Anderson School of Management and in the Human Genetics Department at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. My research is in behavioral economics, which incorporates ideas and methods from psychology into economic analysis, and genoeconomics, which incorporates genetic data into economics.

Some current research topics include understanding errors people make in statistical reasoning; exploring how best to use survey measures of subjective well-being (such as happiness and life satisfaction) to track national well-being and evaluate policies; and studying genetic predictors for behavioral and social phenotypes such as educational attainment and subjective well-being. Past work has addressed how economic behavior relates to cognitive ability and social identity (ethnicity, race, gender, and religion).

I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and was a postdoc at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Before coming to UCLA, I held faculty positions in the Economics Department at Cornell University and at the Center for Economic and Social Research and Economics Department at the University of Southern California. I am also a Faculty Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

For more information about my work, check out my website: danieljbenjamin.com

Mahonri “Mo” Sapiga

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Mahonri “Mo” Sapiga, MSW, is a seasoned leader in public child welfare with over three decades of experience in frontline social work, program administration, and systems-level leadership. As Deputy Director for the Orange County Social Services Agency’s Children and Family Services Division, he has overseen vital programs including Emergency Response, Adult and Child Abuse Hotlines, and Family Maintenance Collaborative Services, leading over 250 staff in delivering trauma-informed, family-led, prevention based, community-centered care.

Mo currently serves as the UCLA, LA County DCFS Stipend Program Coordinator, supporting the development of future child welfare professionals through field education, advising, and academic mentoring.

He has taught MSW courses for over 17 years at CSU Long Beach and CSU Dominguez Hills, where he is known for fostering cultural humility, critical thinking, and applied skill development. Mo’s teaching is grounded in mentorship, coaching, and a commitment to professional excellence.

As an active advocate for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities, he has led numerous community engagement initiatives and presented nationally on equity in education, workforce development, and culturally responsive leadership and practice. Mo’s work centers on empowering marginalized communities and preparing a diverse, competent child welfare workforce.