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Office: JEF 102
Phone: (213) 821.1325
E-mail: jagnello@usc.edu
Jackie Agnello, Administrative Assistant, PERE, USC Agnello holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she followed her academic career with a three year stint as program assistant for the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community, a research center working with community organizations around social justice. Long active in student Filipino organizations, she also worked as an intern for Free the Slaves in Washington, DC.
Office: JEF 102
Phone: (213) 740.9638
E-mail: vanessa.carter@usc.edu
Vanessa Carter is a Data Analyst at the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at USC. She holds a Master’s degree in Urban Planning and Bachelor’s degree in the Study of Religion from UCLA. Before coming to PERE, she worked in two main areas. After working on a green sector initiative at the City of Los Angeles Workforce Investment Board (WIB), she and a team of researchers wrote a report on the Green Construction sector in Los Angeles. She has also done work on civic participation with community-based organization, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE), around health advocacy and transportation planning. Carter participates in and researches faith-based social movements.
Office: JEF 102
Phone: (213) 740.5433
E-mail: itojenni@usc.edu
Jennifer Ito is a Project Manager at the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at USC. Ito holds a Masters in Urban Planning from UCLA. Before joining PERE, Ito worked in varied capacities at Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE), a grassroots organizing and movement building organization based in South Los Angeles. As Research Director, her areas of focus included clean energy economic and workforce development policy and campaign development, tax and fiscal policy reform, workforce development policy, healthcare career training, community health leadership development, and other research to support grassroots organizing and campaigns. Ito also provided trainings and capacity-building support, such as GIS, campaign development, and power analysis, to other community-based organizations. Ito previously worked on urban environmental issues in Los Angeles and on rural sustainable economic development in Guatemala. Appointed by the California Assembly Speaker, she served on the California Commission on the 21st Century Economy. She currently serves on the boards of the Economic Roundtable and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network.
Office: JEF 102
Phone: (213) 740-5594
E-mail: rmortiz@usc.edu
Rhonda Ortiz is Project Manager at the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at USC. Ortiz holds a Masters in Urban Planning from UCLA. She was most recently an Evaluation Associate for The California Endowment, working closely with projects serving the Asian immigrant community of the Central Valley, evaluating initiatives targeting policy and advocacy work and grassroots organizations. Prior to The Endowment, Ortiz worked as a Research Analyst for SEIU Local 399 and conducted research on living wages for the living wage ordinance in Santa Monica. Fluent in Spanish she has lived in Mexico and worked with a team of researchers to develop economic development projects between immigrant Hometown Associations in Los Angeles and their communities in Jalisco, Mexico. She is the proud mother of two lovely daughters.
Office: JEF 102
Phone: (213) 740.3643
E-mail: msaucedo@usc.edu
Office: JEF 102
Phone: (213) 740.5433
E-mail: scogginj@usc.edu
Since graduating with an MS in applied economics and finance from the University of California, at Santa Cruz, he has been assisting with research around issues of social justice, specializing in statistical analysis of patterns of environmental injustice, labor market intermediaries, and regional economic development. Current research includes the analysis of climate change policy on patterns of environmental inequity in California.
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