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Faculty Faculty PUBLIC POLICY SOCIAL WELFARE URBAN PLANNING REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT All UCLA Luskin Faculty Joel Aberbach Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Policy Laura Abrams Professor of Social Welfare Randall Akee Professor of Public Policy and American Indian Studies Helmut K. Anheier Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy Amada Armenta Associate Professor of Urban Planning Ron Avi Astor Professor of Social Welfare Eric Avila Professor of Chicana/o Studies, History and Urban Planning Natalie Bau Professor of Economics and Public Policy A.E. (TED) Benjamin Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare Daniel J. Benjamin Professor, Behavioral Decision Making and Human Genetics and Public Policy Tierra Bills Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Civil and Environmental Engineering Monica Blauner Lecturer of Social Welfare Evelyn Blumenberg Director of Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies; Professor of Urban Planning Laura Alongi Brinderson Practicum Education Faculty of Social Welfare Albert Carnesale Chancellor Emeritus; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Darin Christensen Vice Chair, Department of Public Policy; Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science David Cohen Professor of Social Welfare and Associate Dean Stephen Commins Lecturer, Regional and International Development; Associate Director, Global Public Affairs Khush Cooper Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Welfare Kenya L. Covington Teaching Professor of Public Policy Dana Cuff Professor of Architecture/Urban Design and Urban Planning JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez Adjunct Professor Emerita of Social Welfare Michael Darby Distinguished Professor of Finance, Emeritus; Professor of Management and Public Policy Edith de Guzman Assistant Researcher in Urban Planning Courtney Demko Lecturer of Social Welfare Larthia Dunham Practicum Education Faculty of Social Welfare Ellen Epley Lecturer in Urban Planning Robert Fairlie Chair, Department of Public Policy; Professor of Public Policy Michael Fleming Lecturer of Social Welfare Todd Franke Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare Martin Gilens Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Social Welfare Kian Goh Associate Professor of Urban Planning Carol Goldstein Lecturer in Urban Planning Neal Halfon Director, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities; Professor of Pediatrics, Community Health Sciences, and Public Policy Susanna Hecht Professor of Urban Planning Veronica Herrera Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Political Science Jody Heymann Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, Public Policy, and Medicine Jasmine D. Hill Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Sociology Jill R. Horwitz Professor of Law and Public Policy Carolyn Hull Lecturer in Urban Planning W. Toby Hur Practicum Education Faculty of Social Welfare Alfreda P. Iglehart Professor Emerita of Social Welfare Aurora P. Jackson Professor Emerita of Social Welfare Sanford M. Jacoby Distinguished Research Professor of Management, Public Policy, and History Tranishia James Practicum Education Faculty of Social Welfare Mark S. Kaplan Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare Leyla Karimli Associate Professor of Social Welfare Poco D. Kernsmith Professor of Social Welfare and Department Chair Minjee Kim Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Stuart A. Kirk Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare Archie Kleingartner Professor Emeritus of Management and Public Policy; Founding Dean, School of Public Affairs Felicia Knaul Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Public Policy Liz Koslov Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Environment and Sustainability, and Sociology Susan Lares-Nakaoka Director of Practicum Education and Academic Administrator Jorja Leap Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare; Executive Director, Social Justice Partnership; Co-Founder and Director, Watts Leadership Institute Arleen Leibowitz Research Professor in Public Policy Michael Lens Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Chair, Luskin Undergraduate Programs Susanne Lohmann Director of the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences; Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Tatiana Londoño Assistant Professor of Social Welfare Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning; Interim Dean, Luskin School of Public Affairs. José Loya Assistant Professor of Urban Planning; Faculty Associate in the Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) James Lubben Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare Kelly Lytle Hernandez Professor & Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History Michael Manville Professor and Chair of Urban Planning Corey J. Matthews Lecturer of Public Policy Juan Matute Deputy Director, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies; Lecturer in Urban Planning Carlo Medici Assistant Professor of Public Policy Adam Millard-Ball Professor of Urban Planning Daniel J.B. Mitchell Ho-su Wu Professor; Professor Emeritus of Management and Public Policy Ayako Miyashita Ochoa Adjunct Associate Faculty of Social Welfare Paavo Monkkonen Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Greg Morrow MRED Executive Director Vinit Mukhija Professor of Urban Planning Megan Mullin Faculty Director, Luskin Center for Innovation; Professor of Public Policy Erin Nakamura Practicum Education Faculty of Social Welfare Jack Needleman Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management and Public Policy Barbara J. Nelson Professor Emerita of Public Policy, Social Welfare, Urban Planning, and Political Science Jim Newton Lecturer of Public Policy Paul Ong Research Professor and Director of the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge Isaac Opper Assistant Professor of Public Policy Taner Osman Adjunct Faculty Hector Palencia Practicum Education Faculty of Social Welfare Aaron Panofsky Professor of Public Policy, Society and Genetics, and Sociology; Director, UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics Edward A. (Ted) Parson Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law; Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; Professor of Law and Public Policy Judith L. Perrigo Assistant Professor of Social Welfare Mark A. Peterson Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, Health Policy and Management, and Law; Senior Fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Meredith Phillips Professor of Public Policy and Sociology Gregory Pierce Associate Professor in Residence of Urban Planning; Research and Co-Executive Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Ninez A. Ponce Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management; Professor of Health Policy and Management and Public Policy Ajwang Rading Lecturer of Public Policy Deepak Rajagopal Professor of the Environment and Urban Planning Ulises Ramirez Lecturer of Social Welfare Thomas Rice Distinguished Research Professor of Health Policy and Management and Public Policy Amy Ritterbusch Associate Professor of Social Welfare Ananya Roy Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography Cindy C. Sangalang Assistant Professor of Social Welfare and Asian American Studies Carlos Santos Associate Professor of Social Welfare Mahonri “Mo” Sapiga Practicum Education Faculty of Social Welfare Joshua Schank Assistant Adjunct Professor of Public Policy Robert Schilling Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare Kirsten Schwarz Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Health Sciences Allen J. Scott Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Geography Gary M. Segura Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Chicano and Chicana Studies Latoya Small Assistant Professor of Social Welfare Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science Michael A. Stoll Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning Lené Levy-Storms Associate Professor of Social Welfare and Medicine/Geriatrics Michael Storper Distinguished Professor of Regional and International Development in Urban Planning; Director, Global Public Affairs at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Sicong (Summer) Sun Assistant Professor of Social Welfare Michelle Talley MSW Education Faculty of Social Welfare Brian D. Taylor Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Research Fellow, Institute of Transportation Studies Veronica Terriquez Director, Chicano Studies Research Center; Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Urban Planning Sherod Thaxton Professor of Law, African American Studies, Public Policy, and Sociology Chris Tilly Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology Fernando Torres-Gil Director, UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging; Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare and Public Policy V. Kelly Turner Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Geography David C. Turner III Assistant Professor of Social Welfare Abel Valenzuela Dean, Social Sciences Division; Professor of Labor Studies, Urban Planning and Chicana/o and Central American Studies Arturo Vargas Bustamante Professor of Health Policy and Management and Public Policy Marques Vestal Assistant Professor of Urban Planning John Villasenor Professor of Public Policy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Management, and Law Emily Weisburst Associate Professor of Public Policy Walker Wells Lecturer of Urban Planning Bianca D.M. Wilson Associate Professor of Social Welfare Laura Wray-Lake Professor of Social Welfare Zev Yaroslavsky Director, Los Angeles Initiative Wesley Yin Professor of Public Policy and Management Chris Zepeda-Millán Chair, Labor Studies Program; Associate Professor of Public Policy, Chicana/o Studies, and Political Science Steve Zipperstein Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy Lynne G. 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