Deni Adaniya
Resources for Community Development
Berkeley, CA

Deni recently joined Resources for Community Development, an affordable housing developer in Berkeley. Prior to joining RCD, Leni was development manager with Lennar's Bay Area Urban Division. She oversaw the vertical implementation of Phase 1 (approximately 1,600 homes and 20,000 square feet of commercial space) of Lennar's master redevelopment of the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. Before her work with Lennar, Deni served as a senior project developer with Eden Housing, Inc., a regional nonprofit affordable housing developer where she managed all aspects of new construction and rehabilitation of residential and mixed-use properties throughout the Bay Area. Deni received a B.A. from Boston University and an M.C.P. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

Andrea Clay
Partner, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
San Francisco, CA

Andrea Clay is a partner in the San Francisco office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, where she is a member of the Real Estate Finance Group. Andrea handles a wide array of real estate financings, including acquisition financing, construction financing, refinancing, and loan assumption transactions. Andrea's practice includes hotel/resort related transactions, health care facility related transactions, general commercial related transactions, and residential development transactions. Andrea has been recognized as a Northern California "Super Lawyer" in 2007 and in 2006 was named on the Daily Journal's list of California's top twenty lawyers under the age of 40. Andrea holds a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a J.D. degree and a Master's degree in Business Administration (with an emphasis in finance) from the University of Southern California.

Alex Clemens
Barbary Coast Consulting
San Francisco, CA

Alex has a proven track record of success working as a political aide, a community organizer, a campaign strategist, a policy wonk, a lobbyist, a mouthpiece, a private investigator, and an advocate. He has brought his skills to bear on behalf of educational entities, developers, ballot initiatives, health care institutions, sports franchises, telecom companies, non-profits, candidates for public office, and community organizations.

Lili Farhang, MPH
Department of Public Health
San Francisco, CA

Lili works with the Program on Health, Equity and Sustainability at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, focusing on the health and equity impacts of urban development. Lili coordinated the development of and manages the Healthy Development Measurement Tool, an innovative and ground-breaking evidence-based tool to comprehensively consider health needs in land use planning and decision-making. Through her work, Lili brings experience in the application of health impact assessment methods, built environment and health program development, quantitative and qualitative research methods, coalition and consensus-building and process facilitation. Prior to joining the Department, Lili worked on reproductive justice issues in New York City, focusing on reducing infant and maternal mortality and increasing contraceptive access.

Theodore Hilliard
Hilliard Management Group
Theodore Hilliard has more than sixteen year’s experiences in account management and as a senior business consultant. Previous to founding the Hilliard Management Group he was the financial manager for the Institute for Law & Policy Planning (ILPP) in Berkeley, California, and director of administrative services for the Oakland Recycling Association. Ted is also the former president and treasurer of the Total Recycling Association. Ted received a BA in economics from UC Berkeley in 1992.

Ted is currently deployed as part of the US Army and is on temporary leave from the board.

Hanson Hom
Director of Community Development
Sunnyvale, CA

Hanson is a native of the Bay Area and has extensive urban planning experience working with various communities in the Bay Area. He is currently the Director of Community Development for the City of Sunnyvale where he oversees the City’s planning, building, housing, economic development and neighborhood preservation programs. He is a certified urban planner and a licensed landscape architect and blends the two disciplines into a strong interest in urban design. He has worked on development of policy plans that embrace concepts that advocate transit-oriented development and smart growth principles. Hanson has an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from U.C. Berkeley and masters degrees in urban and regional planning from San Jose State and public administration from Cal State East Bay.

Tim Hurley
Urban Designer, BMS Design Group
San Francisco, CA

Tim is an urban designer and licensed architect, providing design and project management for urban redevelopment, economic revitalization, transit-oriented development and university campus planning projects. While his project portfolio extends from the U.S. to Asia and the Middle East, all of the projects share common traits such as location within existing urbanized areas, emphasis on infill development, appropriate densification, and community participation. When not advocating for urbanism with his clients, Tim occupies a small residence in a high density San Francisco neighborhood and bicycles daily to work. He holds a Master of Architecture from M.I.T. and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Rebecca Koch, Board Treasurer
Relationship Manager and VP, Wells Fargo Bank
San Francisco, CA

Rebecca has been a Relationship Manager and VP at Wells Fargo Bank since 2001, specializing in affordable residential lending generally supported by government subsidies and tax credits. Her transaction structures include letter-of-credit enhancement for and private placement of bonds, tax credit transactions, and for-sale projects involving multi-party investment and financing; she manages all aspects of her clients’ banking needs; and she is well-versed in a variety of other financial products including derivatives and treasury management. From the legal perspective, she has worked with clients developing everything from housing subdivisions to shopping malls, and prior to finance, Rebecca worked as a real estate paralegal. Rebecca received her BA from Oberlin College in 1990.

Ray Minjares
Policy Analyst, International Council on Clean Transportation
San Francisco, CA

Ray Minjares is a policy analyst for the ICCT, and previously worked in Washington, DC focusing on federal clean transportation policy, and as a research analyst at UC Berkeley. He directed the National Clean Bus Project for the Environmental and Energy Study Institute in Washington, DC and coordinated its strategic outreach during reauthorization of TEA-21. He later moved to the American Cancer Society to support the implementation of its strategic management plan and pursue links between environmental policy and health. Ray has a MPH in health policy and management from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and a BA in environmental studies and international development studies from UCLA.

Muhammad A. Nadhiri, Board Secretary
Managing Member, M.A.N. Associates, LLC
Oakland, CA

Muhammad has experience developing residential/retail/commercial mixed-use market-rate projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to forming M.A.N. Associates, Muhammad was a Senior Project Manager at AF Evans Development, Inc., specializing in larger-scale projects that served to enhance and promote community pride and regional presence. Specifically, Muhammad was responsible for two downtown-revitalization residential/retail mixed-use projects, totaling 433 for-sale units and 70,000 square feet of retail over five city blocks. Muhammad began his real estate career as an Associate at Wilson Meany Sullivan, LLC in San Francisco, where he co-managed the development of rental and for-sale residential/retail mixed-use projects in San Francisco and the Bay Area; one of which was as a member of the project team for the historic renovation of the Ferry Building. Prior to beginning his career in real estate development, Muhammad was an Analyst in the Corporate Finance Group at Nationsbanc Securities and an Associate in the Transportation Group at RBC Dominion Securities. Muhammad holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Morehouse College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Paul Okamoto, Board President
Partner, Okamoto Saijo Architecture
San Francisco, CA

Paul has committed his professional architectural career to designing dwellings, mixed-use buildings, and neighborhoods in ways that optimize environmental and social conditions. With his San Francisco-based firm Okamoto Saijo Architecture (OSA), he designs custom passive solar residences, affordable housing developments, community-based neighborhood plans, and researches on sustainable design issues. Paul is a licensed California architect and has a LEED Professional Accreditation with the U.S. Green Building Council. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, in 1981, and his Master of Architecture from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1988. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design during 2000-2001.

Jack Sylvan, Board Vice President
Project Manager, Mayor's Office of Base Reuse & Development
San Francisco, CA

Prior to joining the Mayor's Office, Jack was a director at the Sedway Group, a real estate and urban economics consulting firm, where he provided consulting services for public agencies, private development companies, and nonprofit organizations. Jack received a Fulbright Fellowship to Spain, where he researched the economic impact of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He holds a dual B.A./B.S. from U.C. Davis and a master’s in city planning from U.C. Berkeley.

Katherine Williams
Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellow Visitacion Valley Community Development Corporation
San Francisco, CA

Katherine is a Rose Architectural Fellow at the Visitacion Valley Community Development Corporation located in San Francisco, CA. Her work ranges from tracking very large development projects in her neighborhood to managing a small renovation project. Katherine was the 2006 Director for Forward, the online quarterly publication of the AIA National Associates Committee. She also served on the 2006 AIA National Architecture Honor Awards jury. Katherine was a member of the AIA Richmond (Virginia) board of directors where she coordinated the chapter's intern activities. Katherine graduated from Howard University and is a LEED Accredited Professional. She has one daughter.