The Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust was founded in 2002 to address Los Angeles's park inequities. We focus our efforts exclusively in communities of color that have little to no access to green space.

 

Since 2002, we have added 22 acres of accessible green space by helping to create 30 urban parks and community gardens. As a result, we serve over 500,000 Angelenos living within a 10-minute walk of our green spaces.

Our successful community development model engages residents from the beginning of our design process, through construction and ultimately the stewardship of the parks and gardens we create. To ensure the long-term impact of our efforts, we are working towards equitable green space development through grassroots policy reform.

Los Angeles currently ranks 55th out of the 100 largest cities in the country for the number of people living within a 1/2 mile of a park. While there is a significant lack of green and recreational space throughout Los Angeles, low-income communities of color fare much worse. A 2016 countywide analysis of green space found that communities with very high or high park need were 90% predominately communities of color.

 
 
 
 
 
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Board of Directors & Staff

 

Lina Lee

Vice Chair

Vice President

CIM Group

Leandro Tyberg

Primestor Development

Marcus Benigno

Director of Communications

ACLU Los Angeles

Kenneth Carson

Ambassador

Community Health Council & Fellowship of Love Garden at Holmes

Meg Glasser

Fractional COO

Candidate for Certificate in Landscape Architecture at UCLA Extension

Mireya Valencia

Program Director

David Garvoille

Development Director

Selina Vazquez

Board Secretary

Director of Development

Immigrant Defenders Law Center

Bruce Saito

Executive Director

California Conservation Corps

Winston Stromberg, Esq.

Partner

Latham & Watkins

Tori Kjer, PLA

Executive Director

Anna Gruben

Living Schoolyards Manager

Adriana Garcia So

Project Manager

Bz Zhang

Project Manager

Diana Campos-Jimenez

Lead Community Organizer

Julie Gonzalez

Youth and Community Programs Organizer

Roderick Hall

LA City Planning

 LANLT Park Stewards

Antonia Alcaraz

Estrella Park

Jose Bravo & Rosalba Cadena

Unidad Park & Community Garden

Angela Calderon

Avalon & Gage Park

Fernando A Larios

MC Francis Community Garden & Golden Age Park

Magdalena Pelayo

Marson Park

Ana Maria Plascencia

Fox & Laurel Park & Community Garden

Maria Reyes

11th Avenue Park

Advisory Council

 

Alfredo Arredondo

Partner

Resolute Company

Lauren Chang

Sr. Land Use Associate

Sheppard Mullin

Graham Chisholm

Senior Policy Advisor

Conservation Strategy Group

Jon Christensen

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability,

Luskin Center for Innovation,

Department of History and Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA

Allen Compton, PLA, ASLA

President

SALT-LA

Grant Giuliano

Project Engineer

LENA Construction

Julie Henderson

Chief Communications Officer

SNAP, Inc.

Tom Hsieh, AIA, LEED AP

CEO & President

AC Martin, Inc.

Esther Margulies

Assistant Director Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism

USC School of Architecture

Tara Mohtadi

Business Development & Communications Lead (Americas)

Gehl

Kevin Napoli

*Past LANLT Board Member

Founder & President

LENA Construction & LENA Group

Devon Provo

Policy Manager

Accelerate Resilience LA

Lauren Robinson

Principal Analyst, HR

County of Los Angeles

Melani Smith, AICP

Director of Regional Development

Gateway Cities Council of Governments

Jennifer Toy, PLA

Landscape Architecture & Lecturer

USC

Larry Watts

*Past People for Parks Board Chair

Partner (Retired)

Seyfarth Shaw LLP