Last week I had the privilege of moderating a timely conversation on equitable park access. You can now watch the full broadcast here if ...

Another week, another local government info-bit. This week: affordable housing. In regions like Los Angeles, affordable housing is in hig...

Happy Monday! Time for some more local government 101 info to start your week. This week's in's & out's of local government looks at plan...

So you know who your City Council (or Board of Supervisors) is now, but what about these Committees and Commissions and Advisory Boards? ...

We are seeing an unprecedented (at least in my professional life) level of public engagement in local government processes, largely inspi...

Today, June 1, 2020 marks the 2nd anniversary of starting morena strategies and embarking on the journey of self-employment, creating a p...

Last week Los Angeles, the community development field, the Asian American & Pacific Islander community, our friends across the country, ...

Excerpt below from July 23, 2019 Blog post by NRDC Attorney Damon Nagami, "Planning for Equitable Development Along the LA River." [T]he ...

I have a number of recent conversations to thank for inspiring this post. Why and how I have built morena strategies to work within the l...

I recently had the honor to join an esteemed panel of academic colleagues and fellow advocates at the Urban Affairs Association's Annual ...

I'm often asked about my logo and have never talked about its origin on my website - until now. I see it befitting given I recently retur...

Like so many of you, I closed 2018 with some strategic planning and agenda-setting for 2019. As I often do, I like to begin with groundin...

Reflecting back, the younger version of myself would never have guessed I would be where I am today professionally. I had such a limited ...

One of my most exciting moments as a Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) employee was kickstarting our creative community development work...

Most Angelenos are probably at least tangentially familiar with LURN (Leadership for Urban Renewal Network) due to its leadership role in...

In 2011 I filed a lawsuit against the City of Garden Grove in Orange County, CA on behalf of permanent residents of a mobile home/RV park...

Two years ago I had the pleasure of joining some incredible international urbanists on a panel at Project for Public Spaces' 2016 Placema...

The housing crisis is global and Auckland is in the throws of its own housing bubble. In "The Mess We're In: Auckland's Housing Bubble fr...

I just read this article from Governing.com highlighting one woman's efforts to use community-led design to fight gentrification, and wan...

It's been 4 years since the Latino Cultural District (LCD) was formally recognized by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I was fortu...