Board of Directors

Alan is a photographer and smart growth advocate. He recently retired from a career in technology where he acted as a liaison between programmers/engineers and management.

Alexander is an urban economist and a long-time resident of Berkeley and Oakland. He grew up in the East Bay and went to graduate school at UC Berkeley. He has over ten years of planning and economic analysis experience and specializes in sustainable development, socio-economics and urban regeneration.

Dorothy is a 45-year Berkeley resident. She is the retired assistant vice chancellor of property development for the University of California, Berkeley and past president of the Berkeley Planning Commission. Dorothy is also a past member of the Berkeley Zoning Appeals Board, past president of the American Planning Association, and past president of the American Society of Planning Officials.

Erin is a professional city planner, lifelong Berkeley resident and mother of two. Ms. Rhoades' planning interests are currently focused on making Berkeley a more sustainable city. Erin is the Executive Director of Livable Berkeley.

Jennifer is an MCP candidate in City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. A long-time resident of Berkeley, she has appreciated the progress Downtown Berkeley has achieved and hopes that good planning can continue to make the area a vital attraction for residents and visitors. Having come to planning after several years in the adventure travel industry, Jennifer is currently studying how to apply urban planning and design concepts to promote sustainable tourism.

Joe has been a Berkeley resident for more than 12 years. His professional expertise is in the coordination of land use with transportation systems, with a focus on transit and pedestrian-oriented development that promotes automobile alternatives, housing choice, and community diversity. He also specializes in the relationship between land use and climate and energy impacts and has lectured extensively on the subject. A leader in his central Berkeley neighborhood, Joe is also an avid cyclist and grows much of his family's food in his small backyard.

Kim is a realtor who currently serves on the Berkeley Public Library Board and on the government policy committee of the Board of Realtors. He has an environmental planning degree from UC Berkeley and is a long-time Berkeley resident.

Mike is a third-generation Berkleyan and a Berkeley resident himself for 23 years. He enjoys owning a home from where he can bicycle to work and walk to two dozen movies, while belonging to an active neighborhood association that's looking out for each other and preparing for our next big Quake. He's been active in union political efforts at the state and federal level. Through his work on the "No on P" campaign in 2002, Mike became involved in "smart growth" issues.

Sachu “Sach” Constantine is a senior analyst at the California Public Utilities Commission, working in the California Solar Initiative and Distributed Generation Section.   He has been working on energy and environment issues, mainly in Africa, Asia and Latin America, since 1992 when he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana. After completing his Master of Public Policy Degree at UC-Berkeley, Sach worked for the Energy Analysis Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab where he coordinated technical assistance for projects in Ghana as well as domestic energy efficiency programs.  Sach lives in North Berkeley with his wife and two young children.