Speaker Series

Spring 2025

Housing Panel (March 26, 2025)

• Wes Whitaker ’18, Senior Consultant, California State Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation
• Catherine Charles, Government Relations, New California Coalition
• Mark Stivers, Director of Legislative and Regulatory Advocacy at California Housing Partnership

The Compounding Housing Crisis: Solutions for a Better Future
(3rd Annual Housing Policy Symposium, April 9, 2025)

• Gray Davis, former Governor of California
• Ken Miller, Director, Rose Institute
• Katrina Foley, Vice Chair, Orange County Board of Supervisors and Chair of the Orange County Housing Finance Trust
• Joyce Ahn, Mayor, City of Buena Park
• Jathan Pai ’28, Research Assistant, Rose Institute
• James Gore, Supervisor, Sonoma County
• Kelly Seyarto, State Senator, 32nd District; Former Battalion Chief, Los Angeles County Fire Department
• Richard Green, Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate
• Jason Elliott, President, Vesus Solutions; former Deputy Chief of Staff, Governor Newsom
• Alicia Velasco, Planning Director, City of Cypress
• Ted White, Deputy City Manager, City of Anaheim
• Thomas Wong, Councilmember, City of Monterey Park
• John Reekstin, Executive Vice President for Community Development, The Olson Company
• Scott Laurie, President & Chief Executive Officer, The Olson Company

The Tiger and the Octopus: Political Reform, New York, California, and the Crisis of American Politics (November 18, 2024)

• Andrew Sinclair ’08, Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College

Fall 2024

A Conversation with the Honorable Willie Brown (October 30, 2024)

• Willie L. Brown, Jr., former two-term mayor of San Francisco and longest-serving Speaker of the California State Assembly

California's Choices: 2024 Ballot Measures (October 9, 2024)

• Ken Miller, Director, Rose Institute
• Various students, Rose Institute

Spring 2024

The Policies and Politics of California (February 28, 2024)

• Anthony Rendon, Speaker Emeritus, California State Assembly

A Task for Us All: Promoting Civic Engagement and Politics of California (April 10, 2024)

• Tani Cantil-Sakauye, President and CEO, Public Policy Institute of California

Is Policy Leading to Production? (April 26, 2024)

• Gray Davis, former Governor of California
• Holly J. Mitchell, Supervisor, Los Angeles County
• Scott Wiener, State Senator
• Buffy Wicks, Assemblymember
• Sharon Quirk-Silva, Assemblymember
• Jason Elliott, Deputy Chief of Staff, Governor Newsom
• Tomiquia Moss, Secretary of Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency
• Jenna Hornstock, Senior Advisor for Housing, Mayor Bass
• Megan Kerr, Councilmember, City of Long Beach
• Jed Leano, Councilmember, City of Claremont
• Damien Arrula, City Administrator, City of Placentia
• Brian Saeki, City Manager, City of Whittier
• John Reekstin, Executive VP of Community Development, The Olson Company