Board of Directors

Yolanda Arias
Managing 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
Board Secretary-TreasurerAdjunct Associate Professor, Housing & Community Development, Occidental College

Juan De Lara
Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Daniel Flaming
PresidentDan has been with the Roundtable since 1991. Before that he worked for the County of Los Angeles, California, 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.

Fernando Gaytan
Senior Attorney, Earthjustice, Los Angeles Office. Litigation and advocacy aimed at ending dependency on fossil fuels and creating equitable zero-emissions solutions in California and beyond.

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

Jennifer Ito
Board ChairResearch Director, USC Dornsife Equity Research Institute (ERI)

Yasmin Tong
Board Vice ChairPrincipal of CTY Housing, committed to creating and preserving livable communities that enable people to stabilize and grow

Abel Valenzuela
UCLA Professor of Labor Studies, Urban Planning, and Chicana/o and Central American studies; Interim Dean of Social Sciences

Mary-Jane Wagle
Co-Executive Director and Board Chair, Women Organizing Resources, Knowledge & Services (W.O.R.K.S.)