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Evelyn Blumenberg Curriculum Vitae

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Department of Urban Planning

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

3250 Public Affairs Building

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656

Telephone: (310) 903-3305

Facsimile: (310) 206-5566

E-mail: [email protected]

Education

1995 Ph.D., Urban Planning

University of California, Los Angeles

Dissertation: Gender Politics: Local Labor Markets and Women’s Economic

Status

1990 M.A., Urban Planning (1st in class)

University of California, Los Angeles

Thesis: Home Labor: The Sexual Division of Opportunities and Constraints

1983 B.A., Political Science, with honors

University of California, Berkeley

Thesis: Women and the California State Legislature

Academic Appointments

2011-present Professor


UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

2004-2011 Associate Professor


UCLA School of Public Affairs

1998–2004 Assistant Professor


UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research

1997–1998 Visiting Assistant Professor




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1995–1997 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Policy Studies


Other Appointments

2009-2011 Faculty Fellow

Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

UCLA School of Public Affairs

2005-2006 Visiting Associate Professor

Department of City and Regional Planning

Public Policy Center

University of Hawai’i at Manoa

1992– 1994 Visiting Scholar

Center for Urban and Regional Studies

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Professional Experience

1989–1990 Research Analyst

Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 11

Los Angeles, California

1987–1988 Organizing Director

Neighbor to Neighbor

San Francisco, California

1983–1986 Director

Voting POWER

Oakland, California

Awards and Honors

1995–1997 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

$48,500 postgraduate fellowship

1993–1994 Nieditch Dissertation Fellowship

$17,000 graduate research fellowship


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1992–1993 Charles F. Scott Fellowship

$12,000 public policy graduate studies fellowship

1991–1992 Charles F. Scott Fellowship

$10,000 public policy graduate studies fellowship

1990 Dean's Award for Overall Excellence

Selected by the UCLA Urban Planning faculty as the top graduating student in a

master’s class of sixty-four.

1989–1990 Wayne Ratkovich Fellowship

$2,000 urban planning graduate studies fellowship

Memberships and Affiliations

1999–Present Research Associate

Mineta Transportation Institute

1997–Present Member

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

2007-2014 Member

American Planning Association

1999–2007 Member

Southern California Inter-University Consortium on Homelessness and Poverty

The Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty

2000 Member

Association of Academic Women

Publications

Books and Monographs

7 (2014). Driving to Opportunity: Understanding the Links Among Transportation

Access, Residential Outcomes, and Economic Opportunity for Housing Voucher

Recipients. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. Authors: Rolf Pendall,

Christopher Hayes, Arthur (Taz) George, Zach McDade (The Urban Institute);

Casey Dawkins, Jae Sik Jeon, Eli Knaap (National Center for Smart Growth,

University of MD); Evelyn Blumenberg, Gregory Pierce, Michael Smart (UCLA).

http://www.urban.org/publications/413078.html

http://www.urban.org/publications/413078.html


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6 (2011) Auto Motives? Understanding Our Car Use Behaviours, Karen Lucas,

Evelyn Blumenberg, and Rachel Weinberger, editors. Bingley, UK: Emerald

Group Publishing Limited.

5 (refereed) Agrawal, Asha Weinstein, Evelyn A. Blumenberg, Sarah Abel, Gregory Pierce,

and Charles N. Darrah (2011). Getting Around When You’re Just Getting By:

The Travel Behavior and Transportation Expenditures of Low-Income Adults.

San Jose, CA: Mineta Transportation Institute. (100 pages)

4 (refereed) White, Richard A., Evelyn Blumenberg, Kenneth A. Brown, John M.

Contestabile, Ali Haghani, Arnold M. Howeitt, Thomas C. Lambert, Betty Hearn

Morrow, Michael H. Setzer, Ellis M. Stanley, Dr. and Andrew Velasquez III

(2008). The Role of Transit in Emergency Evacuation. Transportation Research

Board Special Report 294. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/sr/sr294.pdf (283 pages)

3 Handy, Susan, Evelyn Blumenberg, Moira Donahue, Kristin Lovejoy, Caroline

Rodier, Susan Shaheen, Kimiko Shiki, Lily Song, and Gil Tal (2007). Travel

Behavior of Immigrants Groups in California. Berkeley, CA: University of

California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways. September 2007, CD and

web site: http://www.innovativemobility.org/immigrant_groups/

2 Blumenberg, Evelyn, Douglas Miller, Mark Garrett, Lisa Schweitzer, Karen

Kitsis, Michael Manville, and Bravishwar Mallavarapu (2003). California

Transportation Needs Assessment: The Transportation Barriers and Needs of

Welfare Recipients and Low-Wage Workers. Sacramento: California Department

of Transportation. (452 pages)

1 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn, with Peter Haas (2002). The Transportation Needs of the

Poor: A Study of Welfare Participants in Fresno County, California. MTI

Report 01-23. San Jose, CA: Mineta Transportation Institute. (185 pages)

Journal Articles

32 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Trevor Thomas (forthcoming). “Travel Behavior of the

Poor Post-Welfare Reform,” Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

31 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Asha Weinstein Agrawal (2014). “Getting Around

When You’re Just Getting By: Transportation Survival Strategies of the Poor”

Journal of Poverty, 18: 355-378.

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/sr/sr294.pdf


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30 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Gregory Pierce (2014). “A Driving Factor in Mobility?

Transportation’s Role in Connecting Subsidized Housing and Employment

Outcomes in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) Program,” Journal of the

American Planning Association, 80(1): 52-66.

29 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Gregory Pierce (2014). “Multimodal Travel and the

Poor: Evidence from the 2009 National Household Travel Survey,”

Transportation Letters. 6(1), January.

28 (refereed) Michael Smart (2014). “Brother Can You Spare a Ride? Carpooling in

Immigrant Neighborhoods,” Urban Studies, 51(9), 1871-1890.

27 Mondschein, Andrew, Brian Taylor, and Evelyn Blumenberg (2013) “Going

Mental: Everyday Travel and the Cognitive Map,” Access Magazine.

26 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Gregory Pierce (2012). “Automobile Ownership and

Travel of the Poor: Evidence from the 2009 National Household Travel Survey,”

Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2320: 28-36.

25 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Alexandra Norton (2010, Fall). “Falling Immigration

Rates Mean Falling Transit Ridership,” Access Magazine.

24 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Alexandra Elizabeth Evans (2010). “Planning for

Demographic Diversity: The Case of Immigrants and Public Transit,” Journal of

Public Transportation, 13(2): 23-45.

23 (referred) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Michael Smart (2010). “Getting by With a Little Help

from My Friends…and Family: Immigrants and Carpooling,” Transportation,

37(3): 429-446.

22 (refereed) Mondschein, Andrew, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Brian Taylor (2010). “Accessibility

and Cognition: The Effect of Transportation Mode on Spatial Knowledge,” Urban

Studies, 47(4): 845-866.

21 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn (2009). “Moving In and Moving Around: Immigrants, Travel

Behavior, and Implications for Transport Policy,” Transportation Letters, 1(2): 169-

180.

20 (referred) Handy, Susan, Evelyn Blumenberg, Moira Donahue, Kristin Lovejoy, Caroline

Rodier, Susan Shaheen, Kimiko Shiki, and Lily Song (2008). “Travel Behavior

of Mexican and Other Immigrant Groups in California,” Berkeley Planning

Journal, 21: 1-24.


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19 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Renia Ehrenfeucht (2008). “Civil Liberties and the

Regulation of Public Space: The Case of Sidewalks in Las Vegas,” Environment

and Planning A, 40(2): 303-322.

18 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn (2008). “Immigrants and Transport Barriers to

Employment: The Case of Southeast Asian Welfare Recipients in California,”

Transport Policy, 15: 33-42.

17 Blumenberg, Evelyn, Lily K. Song, and Paul Ong (2007, summer/fall).

“Surveying Southeast Asian Welfare Participants: Examples, Challenges, and

Future Directions,” AAPI Nexus Journal, 5(2): 55-75.

16 (refereed) Mondschein, Andrew, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Brian Taylor (2006). “Cognitive

Mapping, Travel Behavior, and Access to Opportunity,” Journal of the

Transportation Research Board, 1985: 266-272.

15 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Lisa Schweitzer (2006, March/April). “Devolution and

Transport Policy for the Working Poor: The Case of the U.S. Job Access and

Reverse Commute Program,” Planning Theory and Practice, 7(1): 7-25.

14 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Michael Manville (2004). “Beyond the Spatial

Mismatch: Welfare Recipients and Transportation Policy,” Journal of Planning

Literature, 19(2): 182-205.

13 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Kimiko Shiki (2004). “Spatial Mismatch Outside of

Large Urban Areas: An Analysis of Welfare Recipients in Fresno County,

California,” Environment and Planning C, 22(3): 401-421.

12 (refereed) Blumenberg Evelyn (2004). “En-gendering Effective Planning: Spatial

Mismatch, Low-Income Women, and Transportation Policy,” Journal of the

American Planning Association, 70:3: 269-281.

11 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Daniel Hess (2004). “Measuring the Role of

Transportation in Facilitating the Welfare-to-Work Transition: Evidence from

Three California Counties,” Transportation Research Record: The Journal of the

Transportation Research Board, 1859: 93-101.

10 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Kimiko Shiki (2003). “How Welfare Recipients Travel

on Public Transit, and Their Accessibility to Employment Outside Large Urban

Centers,” Transportation Quarterly, Spring, 57(2): 25-37.


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9 (referred) Blumenberg, Evelyn (2002). “Planning for the Transportation Needs of Welfare

Participants: Institutional Challenges to Collaborative Planning,” Journal of

Planning Education and Research, 22(2): 152-163.

8 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn (2002). “On the Way to Work: Welfare Participants and

Barriers to Employment,” Economic Development Quarterly, 16(4): 314-325.

7 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Paul Ong (2001). “Cars, Buses, and Jobs: Welfare

Recipients and Employment Access in Los Angeles,” Transportation Research

Record: The Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1756: 22-31.

6 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn (2000). “Moving Welfare Participants to Work: Women,

Transportation, and Welfare Reform,” Affilia, 15(2): 259-276.

5 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn (1998). “Gender Equity Planning: Inserting Women into

Local Economic Development,” Journal of Planning Literature, 13(2): 131-146.

4 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Paul Ong (1998). “Job Accessibility and Welfare Usage:

Evidence from Los Angeles,” The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,

17(4): 639-657.

3 (refereed) Ong, Paul and Evelyn Blumenberg (1998). “Job Access, Commute, and Travel

Burden among Welfare Recipients,” Urban Studies, 35(1): 77-93.

2 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Paul Ong (1997). “Can Welfare Recipients Afford to

Work Far from Home?” Access, 10: 15-19.

1 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn (1994). “Gender Politics and Local Labor Markets,”

Colloqui, 9: 46-54.

Book Chapters

10 Blumenberg, Evelyn (forthcoming). “Social Equity and Urban Transportation,”

The Geography of Urban Transportation, 4th Edition, eds. Susan Hanson and

Genevieve Giuliano. New York: The Guilford Press.

9 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Michael Smart (2011). “Migrating to Driving:

Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Immigrants’ Automobile Use,” Auto

Motives: Understanding Car Use Behaviours. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group

Publishing Limited.


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8 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn (2006). “Metropolitan Dispersion and Diversity:

Implications for Community Economic Development,” Jobs and Economic

Development in Minority Communities: Realities, Challenges, and Innovation.

Temple University Press, pp. 13-39.

7 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Margy Waller (2005). “The Long Journey to Work: A

Federal Transportation Policy for Working Families.” Taking the High Road.

Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, pp. 197-226

6 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Randall Crane (2004). “Transport in the Urban Core,”

Transport Geography and Spatial Systems, Handbooks in Transport, Vol 5,

Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 67-76.

5 (refereed) Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Renia Ehrenfeucht (2004).

“Sidewalk Democracy: Municipalities and the Regulation of Public Space,”

Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America, Eran Ben-

Joseph and Terry S. Szold, editors. New York: Routledge.

4 Ong, Paul and Evelyn Blumenberg (1997). “Scientists and Engineers,” in New

American Destinies. A Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration.

Eds. Darrell Y. Hamamoto and Rodolfo D. Torres. New York: Routledge.

[reprint of monograph chapter]

3 (refereed) Ong, Paul and Evelyn Blumenberg (1996). “Income and Racial Inequality in Los

Angeles,” The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth

Century, Allen Scott and Edward Soja, editors. Berkeley and Los Angeles:

University of California Press, pp. 311-335.

2 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Paul Ong (1994). “Labor Squeeze and Ethnic/Racial

Recomposition in the U.S. Apparel Industry,” Global Production: The Apparel

Industry in the Pacific Rim, Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng, Norma Chinchilla,

Nora Hamilton, and Paul Ong, editors. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,

pp. 309-327.

Reprinted in abbreviated form:

2A Blumenberg, Evelyn and Paul Ong (1998). “Labor Squeeze and

Ethnic/Racial Recomposition in the U.S. Apparel Industry,” The Changing

Nature of Work: Frontier Issues in Economic Thought, Volume 4.

Covelo, CA: Island Press, pp. 94-97.


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1 Ong, Paul and Evelyn Blumenberg (1993). “An Unnatural Trade-Off: Latinos

and Environmental Justice,” Latinos in a Changing U.S. Economy: Comparative

Perspectives on Growing Inequality, Frank Bonilla and Rebecca Morales, editors.

Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, pp. 207-225.

Book Review

2 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2014). “The Car Dependent Society,” Journal of Regional

Science, Journal of Regional Science, 54(3): 535–536.

1 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2007). “On Gender and Planning: Some Things Old, Some

Things New,” Journal of the American Planning Association, 73(1): 115-116.

Reports

18 Blumenberg, Evelyn, Brian D. Taylor, Michael Smart, Kelcie Ralph, Madeline

Wander, and Stephen Brumbaugh (2012). What's Youth Got to Do with It?

Exploring the Travel Behavior of Teens and Young Adults, University of

California Transportation Center, UCTC-FR-2012-14, September 2012 (138

pages).

17 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2009). “Moving In and Moving Around: Immigrants, Travel

Behavior, and Implications for Transport Policy,” University of California

Transportation Center, UCTC Research Paper No. 892, Fall.

16 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Michael Smart (2009). “Travel In the ‘Hood: Ethnic

Neighborhoods and Mode Choice,” University of California Transportation Center,

UCTC Research Paper No. 891, Fall.

15 Handy, Susan, Evelyn Blumenberg, Moira Donahue, Kristin Lovejoy, Caroline

Rodier, Susan Shaheen, Kimiko Shiki, Lily Song, and Gil Tal (2009). Travel

Behavior of Immigrant Groups in California. California PATH Research report,

UCB-ITS-PRR-2009-30, May.

http://www.path.berkeley.edu/PATH/Publications/PDF/PRR/2009/PRR-2009-

30.pdf

14 Mondschein, Andrew, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Brian D. Taylor (2008).

“Accessibility and Cognition: The Effect of Transportation Mode on Spatial

Knowledge,” University of California Transportation Center, UCTC Research Paper

#867

http://www.path.berkeley.edu/PATH/Publications/PDF/PRR/2009/PRR-2009-30.pdf

http://www.path.berkeley.edu/PATH/Publications/PDF/PRR/2009/PRR-2009-30.pdf


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13 Blumenberg, Evelyn, Moira Donahue, Susan Handy, Kristin Lovejoy, Caroline

Rodier, Susan Shaheen, and James Volker (2007). Travel of Diverse Populations:

Literature Review. California PATH Working Paper, Institute of Transportation

Studies, University of California, Berkeley, UCB-ITS-PWP-2007-5.

12 Mondschein, Andrew, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Brian D. Taylor (2005). “Cognitive

Mapping, Travel Behavior, and Access to Opportunity,” University of California

Transportation Center, UCTC Research Paper #753.

11 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2005). “Transportation Barriers to Employment: Southeast

Asian Welfare Recipients in Los Angeles and Fresno Counties,” University of

California Transportation Center, UCTC Research Paper #752.

10 Blumenberg, Evelyn, and Kimiko Shiki (2003). “Spatial Mismatch Outside of

Large Urban Areas: An Analysis of Welfare Recipients in Fresno County

California,” University of California Transportation Center, UCTC Research Paper

#655.

9 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Margy Waller (2003). The Long Journey to Work: A

Federal Transportation Policy for Working Families. Washington, D.C.: The

Brookings Institution. (19 pages)

8 Blumenberg, Evelyn, and Kimiko Shiki (2003). “How Welfare Recipients Travel

on Public Transit, and Their Accessibility to Employment Outside Large Urban

Centers” University of California Transportation Center, UCTC Research Paper

#646.

7 Blumenberg, Evelyn, Paul M. Ong, and Andrew Mondschein (2002). “Uneven

Access to Opportunities. Welfare Recipients, Jobs, and Employment Support

Services in Los Angeles,” University of California Transportation Center, UCTC

Research Paper, No. 545.

6 Blumenberg, Evelyn, and Daniel Baldwin Hess (2002). “Measuring the Role of

Transportation in Facilitating the Welfare-to-Work Transition: Evidence from Three

California Counties,” University of California Transportation Center, UCTC

Research Paper #583.

5 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2002). “En-gendering Effective Planning: Transportation

Policy and Low-Income Women,” University of California Transportation Center,

UCTC Research Paper #582.


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4 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Paul Ong (2002). “Cars, Buses and Jobs: Welfare

Participants and Employment Access in Los Angeles,” UCTC Research Paper No

544.

3 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2002). “Planning for the Transportation Needs of Welfare

Participants: Institutional Challenges to Collaborative Planning,” University of

California Transportation Center, UCTC Research Paper #543.

2 Ong, Paul and Evelyn Blumenberg. 1997. “Job Access, Commute, and Travel

Burden Among Welfare Recipients,” UCLA, Lewis Center for Regional Policy

Studies, April. (21 pages)

1 Ong, Paul and Evelyn Blumenberg. 1997. “Job Accessibility and Welfare Usage:

Evidence from Los Angeles,” UCLA, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

March. (21 pages)

Monograph Chapters

5 Blumenberg, Evelyn, Paul Ong, and Andrew Mondschein (forthcoming*). “Uneven

Access to Opportunities. Welfare Recipients, Jobs, and Employment Support

Services in Los Angeles,” Access to Opportunities. Emory University. [*The

principal investigator sent us proofs of our chapter; however, he failed to produce a

final monograph.]

4 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2001). “Welfare Reform and the California Labor Market,”

State of California Labor. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California

Institute for Industrial Relations, pp. 267-288.

3 Paul Ong and Evelyn Blumenberg (1998). “The Transportation-Welfare Nexus:

Getting Welfare Recipients to Work,” California Policy Options 1999. Daniel J.B.

Mitchell and Patricia Nomura, editors. Los Angeles: UCLA School of Public

Policy and Social Research and the Anderson School Economic Forecast, pp. 25-35.

2 Ong, Paul and Evelyn Blumenberg (1994). “Scientists and Engineers,” The State of

Asian Pacific America: Economic Diversity, Issues, and Policies, Paul Ong, editor.

Los Angeles: LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute and UCLA

Asian American Studies Center, pp. 165-189.

1 Ong, Paul and Evelyn Blumenberg (1994). “Welfare and Work among Southeast

Asians,” The State of Asian Pacific America: Economic Diversity, Issues, and

Policies, Paul Ong, editor. Los Angeles: LEAP Asian Pacific American Public

Policy Institute and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, pp. 113-138.


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Short Articles

3 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2004). “Transportation Costs and Economic Opportunity

Among the Poor,” Access, 23: 40-41.

2 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2002). “Reverse Commute Transit Programs and Single

Mothers on Welfare: A Policy Mismatch?” Tech Transfer, Winter: 4-6.

1 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2001). “On the Way to Work: Transportation, Women,

and Welfare Reform in the U.S.,” Women and Environments, 50/51: 21-22.

Conference Proceedings

2 Leung, Carolyn, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Julia Heintz-Mackoff (2001). The

Journey to Work: UCLA Symposium on Welfare Reform and Transportation –

Summary of Conference Proceedings. Los Angeles: UCLA Lewis Center for

Regional Policy Studies. (54 pages)

1 Blumenberg, Evelyn, Steve Moga, and Paul Ong (1998). Getting Welfare

Recipients to Work: Transportation and Welfare Reform – Summary of Conference

Proceedings. Los Angeles: UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. (44

pages)

Other Written Work

Reports

3 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Paul Ong (1997). Neighborhood Economies and Welfare

Dynamics. Report prepared for the Urban Institute's Transitions from Welfare to

Work Small Grants Program.

2 Blumenberg, Evelyn (1992). “A Review of Explanations for Poverty,” report

prepared for the California Department of Social Services.

1 Ong, Paul and Evelyn Blumenberg (1990). From Research to Policy Formation:

Income Inequality and Ethnic Diversity in Los Angeles. Report to the Haynes

Foundation of Los Angeles.


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Conference Papers

26 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Gregory Pierce (2015). “Reducing Long-Term

Exposure to Poverty: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity Experiment,”

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting.

25 (refereed) Thomas, Trevor and Evelyn Blumenberg (2015). “Travel Adaptations and the

Great Recession: Evidence from Los Angeles County,” Transportation Research

Board 94th

Annual Meeting.

24 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn, Madeline Wander, Brian Taylor, and Michael Smart (2013).

“Youth, Travel Mode, and the Journey to Work,” Transportation Research Board

92nd

Annual Meeting.

23 (refereed) Taylor, Brian D., Kelcie Ralph, Evelyn Blumenberg, Michael Smart (2013). “Who

Knows About Kids These Days? Analyzing Determinants of Youth and Adult

Mobility Between 1990 and 2009,” Transportation Research Board 92nd

Annual

Meeting.

22 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Gregory Pierce (2012). “Automobile Ownership and

Travel of the Poor: Evidence from the 2009 National Household Travel Survey,”

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting.

21 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn, Michael Smart, and Andrew Lee (2010). “Commute Distance

and Ethnic Neighborhoods in Southern California,” Transportation Research Board

89th Annual Meeting, Paper #10-3814.

20 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn (2009). “Immigration Internally and from Abroad,”

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting, Paper #09-0092.

19 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Michael Smart (2009). “Travel In the ’Hood: Ethnic

Neighborhoods and Mode Choice,” Transportation Research Board 88th Annual

Meeting, Paper #09-2179.

18 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Michael Smart (2009). “Ethnic Enclaves and Commute

Behavior in Los Angeles and New York City,” Transportation Research Board 88th

Annual Meeting, Paper #09-0872.

17 Smart, Michael and Evelyn Blumenberg (2009). “Immigrant Neighborhoods and

the Spatial Clustering of Employment,” 50th Anniversary Annual Conference of the

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.


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16 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2009). “Congestion: Are Immigrants to Blame,” 50th

Anniversary Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of

Planning.

15 Blumenberg, Evelyn (2008). “Immigrants and Travel Behavior: A Tale of

Migration, Mobility, and Assimilation,” Impact of Changing Demographics on the

Transportation System, Transportation Research Board.

14 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Michael Smart (2008). “Commute Mode and Ethnic

Neighborhoods,” Impact of Changing Demographics on the Transportation System,

Transportation Research Board.

13 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Michael Smart (2008). “Getting by with a Little Help

From my Friends and Family: Immigrants and Carpooling,” Fourth Joint Congress

of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Association of

European Schools of Planning, Paper #859.

12 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Lily Song (2008). “Travel Behavior of Immigrants in

California: Trends and Policy Implications,” The Transportation Research Board


11 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Kimiko Shiki (2008). “Immigrants and Resource Sharing:

The Case of Carpooling,” Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting,

Paper #08-2965.

10 (refereed) Mondschein, Andrew, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Brian D. Taylor (2008).

“Accessibility and Cognition: Effect of Transportation Mode on Spatial

Knowledge,” Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting, Paper #08-1998.

9 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Kimiko Shiki (2007). “Sharing Resources: Immigrants

and Car-pooling in California,” 48th Annual Conference of the Association of

Collegiate Schools of Planning, Paper #549.

8 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Alexandra Evans (2007). “Growing the Immigrant Transit

Market: Public Transit Use and California Immigrants,” Transportation Research

Board 86th


7 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Kimiko Shiki (2007). “Transportation Assimilation:

Immigrants, Race and Ethnicity, and Mode Choice,” Transportation Research Board



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6 (refereed) Mondschein, Andrew, Evelyn Blumenberg, Brian D. Taylor (2006). Cognitive

Mapping, Travel Behavior, and Access to Opportunity, Transportation Research

Board 85th


5 (refereed) Blumenberg Evelyn (2005). “Transportation Costs and the American Dilemma:

Race, Ethnicity, and Costs of Travel,” Transportation Research Board 84th Annual

Meeting, Paper #05-1505.

4 Blumenberg, Evelyn and Renia Ehrenfeucht (2002). “The Public Sector and the

Public Domain: The Case of Las Vegas, Nevada,” Association of Collegiate

Schools of Planning Conference.

3 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Daniel Hess (2003). “Measuring the Role of

Transportation in Facilitating the Welfare-to-Work Transition: Evidence from Three

California Counties,” Transportation Research Board 82nd

Annual Meeting, Paper

#03-4122.

2 (refereed) Blumenberg, Evelyn and Paul Ong (2001). “Cars, Buses, and Jobs: Welfare

Participants and Employment Access in Los Angeles,” Transportation Research

Board Annual Meeting, Paper #01-3068.

1 Blumenberg, Evelyn (1994). “Income Security or Welfare Dependency: Flaws in

Clinton's Welfare Reform.” Invited paper prepared for a Roundtable of Welfare

Reform and Cities at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate

Schools of Planning, Tempe, AZ.

Research Grants

2014-2015 Principal Investigator (w/ Madeline Brozen)

Heightening Walking above its Pedestrian Status: Walking and Travel Behavior in

California

$91,108 from UC CONNECT.

2013-2015 Principal Investigator (w/ Brian Taylor)

An examination of the geographic variation in travel behavior.

$125,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway

Administration.


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2012-2014 Principal Investigator (w/ Rolf Pendall, Urban Institute, and Casey Dawkins,

University of Maryland)

An examination of the transportation and residential location choices of HUD

voucher recipients

$500,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

2012-2014 Principal Investigator (w/ Paula Sirola, Community Garden Council)

An analysis of the characteristics and needs of community gardens in Los Angeles

$16,000 from the UCLA Center for Civil Society

2012-2013 Principal Investigator (w/ Deborah Salon, University of California, Davis)

A spatial analysis of housing and transportation affordability in Los Angeles

County

$30,014 (UCLA portion) from the University of California Transportation Center

2011-2012 Principal Investigator (with Brian Taylor, UCLA)

An examination of the travel behavior of youth

$40,000

2011–2012 Principal Investigator

An examination of the relationship between income and multimodal travel

$9,400 from the University of California Transportation Center

2009–2010 Principal Investigator (with Asha Weinstein, San Jose State University)

An examination of the travel behavior and transportation expenditures of low-

income adults

$60,611 from the Mineta Transportation Institute


An examination of employment clustering among residents living in ethnic

neighborhoods

$15,000 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California,

Los Angeles.


Examination of immigrant enclaves and the residential location and travel patterns

of immigrants in Los Angeles and New York

$53,371 from the University of California Transportation Center


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Examination of immigrant enclaves and the residential location and employment of

immigrants

$10,000 from the University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Senate

2004–2007 Investigator (with Susan Handy, UC Davis, Susan Shaheen and Caroline Rodier, UC

Berkeley)

Examination of travel behavior for diverse population groups in California

$384,711 grant from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)

Principal Investigator (UCLA portion of grant), data analysis of the travel

behavior of immigrants in California, $103,541

2004–2006 Principal Investigator (with Brian Taylor, UCLA)

Examination of auto-mobility, spatial isolation and the poor.

$39,339 grant from the University of California Transportation Center


Examination of race, ethnicity and the costs of travel

$3,000 grant from the University of California, Los Angeles, Academic Senate


Examination of the race, ethnicity and the costs of travel

$2,000 stipend from the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University


Examination of the historical travel patterns of the poor.

$3,564 grant from the University of California, Academic Senate.


Examination of the relationship between earnings, commute mode, and commute

distance.

$5,915 grant from the University of California Institute for Labor and Employment.


Statewide analysis and assessment of the transportation needs of welfare recipients.

$216,000 grant from the California Department of Transportation.


Examination of the effects of privatized public space on organized labor.

$10,543 grant from the University of California Institute for Labor and Employment.


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Analysis of the transportation behavior and needs of welfare recipients in Fresno

County, California.

$80,056 grant from the Mineta Transportation Institute.


Investigation of the racial/ethnic variation in the travel behavior of welfare

participants in Los Angeles.

$1,200 grant from the UCLA Academic Senate.


Examination of the transportation needs and behavior of welfare participants in

California’s San Joaquin Valley (Fresno County).

$44,724 grant from the University of California Transportation Center.


Examination of the transportation needs and behavior of Southeast Asian welfare

participants.


1999-2000 Co-Principal Investigator (with Paul Ong and Brian Taylor, UCLA)

Examination of the role of transportation in facilitating the welfare-to-work

transition (Alameda County).



Analysis of the spatial location of female-dominated occupations in Los Angeles.

$3,125 grant from the UCLA Academic Senate.

1999–2000 Investigator (with Paul Ong, UCLA)

Analysis of health insurance for families exiting welfare through employment

$45,600 grant from the UC/California Policy Research Center


Develop the agenda and program for a second national research symposium on the

relationships between transportation, employment, and welfare reform.


1998–2000 Investigator (with Paul Ong, UCLA)

Analysis of employment outcomes of welfare recipients under TANF

$24,997 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor


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1998–1999 Co-Principal Investigator (with Paul Ong, UCLA)

Analyze the spatial distribution of welfare recipients, job opportunities, and support

services in Los Angeles.

$45,000 grant from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.

1998–1999 Co-Principal Investigator (with Paul Ong and Brian Taylor, UCLA)

Examination of the role of transportation in facilitating the welfare-to-work

transition.



Develop the agenda and program for a national research symposium on the

relationships between transportation, employment, and welfare reform.


1995–1997 Co-Principal Investigator (with Paul Ong, UCLA)

Analyze the relationship between neighborhood economies and welfare usage.

$33,000 grant from the Urban Institute.

1994 Co-Principal Investigator (with Paul Ong, UCLA)

Develop a research program on the relationship between welfare usage and the

labor market.

$10,000 planning grant from the Haynes Foundation.

Public Speaking

Invited Presentations

2014 “Driving Mobility: The Role of Automobiles and Public Transit,” Poverty and

Place Conference, Poverty Center, University of California, Davis, November.

2014 “Building for Today – Thinking about Tomorrow: How Changing

Demographics, Economic Recovery, Politics and the Environment are Impacting

Real Estate Development,” Crocker Symposium, November.

2014 “What’s Youth Got to Do with It? Exploring the Travel Behavior of Teens and

Young Adults,” University of Southern California, November

2014 “Inclusive Cities and Transit,” Transit & Cities: Past, Present, Future, University

of California, Berkeley, March.


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2014 “Shifts in Travel Behavior: Where Are We Going and How Do We Know?

Tenth Annual Travel Data User Forum,” Transportation Research Board Annual

Conference, January.

2013 “Teens, Tech, and Travel: What’s Behind the Dramatic Changes in Travel

Among Teens and Young Adults,” Changing Behaviors, Changing Cities

Lake Arrowhead Symposium on the Transportation-Land Use-Environment

Connection.

2013 “Brother Can You Spare a Ride. Carpooling in Immigrant Neighborhoods,”

Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, February 12

2012 “Immigrants and Public Transit Ridership,” University of California Center,

Sacramento, February 23.

2011 “Commute Mode and Latino New Urbanism: Exploring the Link Between

Hispanic Mode Choice and Residential Location in Hispanic Neighborhoods,”

Transportation Research Board, Using Census Data for Transportation

Applications Conference, Irvine, October 26

2011 “Immigrants Use of Public Transit” presentation for the leadership of Metro, Los

Angeles, October 19

2011 “Getting Around When You're Just Getting By: Transportation Survival

Strategies of the Urban Poor,” Webinar, UC Davis, Sustainable Transportation

Center, May.

2010 “The Importance & Impact of Cars for Family Economic Success,” Webinar,

National Consumer Law Center, December 9.

2010 “Ethnic Neighborhoods and Travel Behavior,” City University of New York, New

York, February 25.

2010 “When Times Get Tough do the Tough Get Going, Low-Income Households and

the Transportation Expenditure Burden,” Moving Out of Poverty: The Economic

and Environmental Impacts of Programs Aimed at Mitigating Spatial Mismatch,

February 11, 2010, Cornell University.

2010 Discussant, “Logics of Belonging and Exclusion,” Thinking Gender Conference,

UCLA Center for the Study of Women, February


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2008 “Immigrants and Travel Behavior: A Tale of Migration, Mobility, and

Assimilation,” Impact of Changing Demographics on the Transportation System

Conference, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, October.

2008 “Commute Mode and Ethnic Neighborhoods,” Impact of Changing Demographics

on the Transportation System Conference, Transportation Research Board,

Washington, DC, October.

2007 “Planning for Demographic Diversity: The Case of Immigrants and

Transportation in California,” University of California, Davis, November.

2007 “Transportation and Evacuation Procedures for Vulnerable Populations during a

Disaster,” Vulnerable Populations: Emergency Preparedness Conference,

University Maryland, Center for Health and Homeland Security, November.

2007 “Planning for Demographic Diversity: The Case of Immigrants and

Transportation in California,” On the Road to Sustainability: From Research to

Practice, California PATH-University Transportation Centers, University of

California, Berkeley, October.

2007 “Immigration, Location, and Travel in California. Do the Biggest Impacts Lie

Ahead?” UCLA Lake Arrowhead Transportation-Land Use-Environment

Connection Symposium, October.

2007 “The Travel Behavior of Immigrants in California: Trends and Policy

Implications,” RAND Corporation, Transportation Seminar Series, July.

2006 “Cars, Consumer Expenditures, and Low-Income Households,” presentation for

the Low-Income Car Ownership Practice and Policy Convening, The Annie E.

Casey Foundation and the National Economic Development and Law Center,

Baltimore, September

2006 “Meeting the Mobility Needs of Low-Income Families. The Role of Cars, Transit

and Effective Planning,” presentation as part of the Hawaii Highway Users

Alliance panel series, Honolulu, HI, June 2006.

2005 “Transportation and Low-Income Households,” Low-Income Car Ownership:

New Policy for Employment and Family Well-Being, Brookings Institution,

Washington, DC, December.


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2005 “Policy Research: Impacting and Informing the Field,” Low-Income Car

Ownership Practice and Policy Convening, The Annie E. Casey Foundation and

the National Economic Development and Law Center, Baltimore, September 26-

28.

2005 “Transportation Costs and the American Dilemma: Race, Ethnicity, and the Costs

of Travel,” The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., January.

2004 “The Cost of Mobility. A Town Hall on Transportation Spending in Low-Income

Households,” panel member and moderator, Metropolitan Transportation

Commission, September 15.

2004 “The Journey to Work: Transportation, Economic Opportunity, and the Poor,”

Northwestern University, May.

2003 “The Journey to Work: Transportation, Economic Opportunity, and the Poor,”

School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California,

November.

2003 “California Transportation Needs Assessment: The Transportation Barriers of

Welfare Recipients and Low-Wage Workers,” research briefing for the California

Department of Social Services, Sacramento, CA, April.

2003 “Travel Patterns of Welfare Recipients in California” at the Annual Meeting of the

Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January.

2002 “A Welfare-to-Work Transportation Needs Assessment Study,” plenary session talk

at the Job Access and Reverse Commuting in California: The Public Agency-

Transit Connection, conference, Oakland, California, October.

2002 “Traversing Space: Physical, Virtual and Global Networks,” session moderator at

Thinking Gender, 12th Annual University of California Graduate Student Research

Conference, UCLA, March.

2002 “En-gendering Effective Planning: Transportation Policy and Low-Income

Women,” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Institute of

Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar Series, University of California,

Berkeley, February.


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2000 “Will the Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Metropolitan Development and Social

Equity in an Era of Rapid Growth,” at Growth and the Quality of Life: The 10th

Annual UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on the Transportation – Land Use –

Environment Connection, Lake Arrowhead, California, October.

2000 “Transportation and Welfare Reform,” at Livable Communities: Linking People

& Employment, symposium sponsored by the Bay Area Rapid Transit District,

Oakland, May.

2000 “Transportation and Welfare Reform,” Department of Civil and Environmental

Engineering/Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar Series,

University of California, Berkeley, March.

2000 “Transportation Issues in Welfare-to-Work Programs,” UCLA/LA Marginal

Majority Workshop Series, UCLA College of Letters and Science and the Lewis

Center for Regional Policy Studies, February.

2000 “Transportation and the Social Implications of Changing Employment Practices,”

at the 79th

Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington,

D.C., January.

1999 “Transportation and Welfare Reform in Los Angeles County,” to the Economic

Well-Being Workgroup of the Long-Term Self-Sufficiency Planning Process, Los

Angeles Department of Social Services, August.

1999 “Transportation and the Welfare-to-Work Transition,” School of Urban Studies

and Planning, Portland State University, Portland, May

1999 “The Labor Market and the Los Angeles Economy,” to the Fellows of the

Humphrey International Fulbright Program, Los Angeles, March.

1998 “The Transportation-Welfare Nexus: Getting Welfare Recipients to Work,”

presentation at the 47th

Annual UCLA Anderson Business Forecast Meeting, Los

Angeles, December.

1998 “The Use of Employment Development Department (EDD) Data in Welfare-

Related Research," at Using State Labor Market Data for Academic Research,

California Policy Research Center and UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy

Studies, November.


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1998 “Obstacles to Independence: Transportation,” presentation at Getting It to Work:

A Conference on Welfare-to-Work and Families, sponsored by the Legal Aid

Foundation of Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal

Services Inc., Los Angeles, September.

1998 “Transportation and Welfare Reform,” a Brookings Institution lecture,

Washington, D.C., June.

1997 “Transportation and Welfare-to-Work,” at the Access-to-Jobs Conference,

sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration, San Francisco, California,

December.

1994 “Income Security or Welfare Dependency: Flaws in Clinton's Welfare Reform

Package,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of

Planning, Tempe, Arizona, November.

1994 “Southeast Asians and Welfare,” at the LEAP Asian Pacific American Public

Policy Institute Roundtable, Los Angeles, California, July.

1994 “Southeast Asians and Welfare,” at the LEAP Asian Pacific American Public

Policy Institute Conference, Washington, DC, May.

Research Presentations

2014 “A Driving Factor in Mobility? Transportation’s Role in Connecting Subsidized

Housing and Economic Outcomes,” presentation at the Annual Meeting of the

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

October.

2013 “Youth, Travel Mode, and the Journey to Work,” Transportation Research Board

92nd

Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January.

2012 “Automobile Ownership and Travel of the Poor: Evidence from the 2009 National

Household Travel Survey,” Transportation Research Board, 91st Meeting,

Washington, D.C., January.

2011 “Multimodal Travel and the Poor: Evidence from the 2009 National Household

Travel Survey,” presentation at the Annual meeting of the Association of

Collegiate Schools of Planning, Salt Lake City, October.

2011 “Getting around When You’re Just Getting By: Transportation Survival

Strategies of the Poor” presentation at the 90th Annual Meeting of the

Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January.


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2010 “Commute Distance and Ethnic Neighborhoods: Is there a Relationship?”

presentation at the Annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of

Planning, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October.

2009 “Congestion: Are Immigrants to Blame?” presentation at the Annual Meeting of

the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Crystal City, Virginia,

October.

2009 “Travel in the ’Hood: Ethnic Neighborhoods and Mode Choice,” at the 89th

Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January.

2007 “Sharing Resources: Immigrants and Carpooling in California,” presentation at

the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning,

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October.

2007 “Transportation Assimilation: The Case of Immigrants and Automobiles,” at the

World Congress of Transportation Researchers Conference, Berkeley, June.

2007 “Growing the Immigrant Transit Market: Public Transit Use and California

Immigrants” at the World Congress of Transportation Research Conference,

Berkeley, June.

2006 “Transportation Assimilation: Immigrants and Mode Choice,” at the Annual

Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Ft. Worth, Texas,

November.


of Travel,” at the 84nd

Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board,



of Travel,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of

Planning, Portland, Oregon, November.

2003 “Measuring the Role of Transportation in Facilitating the Welfare-to-Work

Transition: Evidence from Three California Counties” at the 3rd

Joint Congress of

the Association of European Schools of Planning and the Association of

Collegiate Schools of Planning, Leuven, Belgium, July.

2003 “Welfare Usage and Geographic Access to Employment: A Cross-County

Comparison,” at the 3rd

Joint Congress of the Association of European Schools of

Planning and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Leuven,

Belgium, July.


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2003 “Measuring the Role of Transportation in Facilitating the Welfare-to-Work

Transition: Evidence from Three California Counties” at the 82nd

Annual Meeting

of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January.

2002 “Devolution and the New Federalism: The Role of the Federal Job Access

Program in Improving the Mobility of Welfare Recipients,” at the Annual

Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Baltimore,

Maryland, November.

2002 “En-gendering Effective Planning: Transportation Policy and Low-Income

Women,” at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board,


2001 “Cars, Buses, and Jobs: Welfare Recipients and Employment Access in Los

Angeles,” at the 80th

Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board,


2000 “Planning for the Transportation Needs of Welfare Participants: Barriers to Inter-

Agency Collaboration,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate

Schools of Planning, Atlanta, Georgia, November.

2000 “Access to Jobs by Welfare Recipients: The Role of Public Transportation. Los

Angeles,” at the Journey to Work: UCLA Symposium on Welfare Reform and

Transportation, Los Angeles.

2000 “Job Access, Commute, and Travel Burden Among Welfare Recipients,” at the 79th

Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January.

1999 “Access to Opportunity: Lessons from the Welfare-to-Work Challenge in Four

Metropolitan Regions – Los Angeles,” at the Annual Fall Research Conference of

the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C.,

November.

1999 “Uneven Access to Opportunities Welfare Recipients, Jobs, and Employment

Support Services in Los Angeles,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of

Collegiate Schools of Planning, Chicago, Illinois, October.

1998 “The Travel Behavior of Welfare Recipients,” at Getting Welfare Recipients to

Work: Transportation and Welfare Reform, Institute of Transportation Studies,

School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles,

March.


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1998 “Transportation and Welfare Usage: Research, Planning, and Collaboration,” at

Getting Welfare Recipients to Work: Transportation and Welfare Reform, Institute

of Transportation Studies, School of Public Policy and Social Research, University

of California, Los Angeles, March.

1997 “Job Accessibility and Welfare Usage Among the Poor: Evidence from Los

Angeles,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of

Planning, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, November.

1996 “Gender and U.S. Economic Development Planning,” at the Joint International

Congress of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the AESOP,

Toronto, Canada.

1996 “Neighborhood Economies and Welfare Dynamics,” to the National Association for

Welfare Research and Statistics Workshop, San Francisco, California.

1996 “Global Cities, Local Labor Markets: Comparable Worth and Women's Economic

Status,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,

Charlotte, North Carolina.

1994 “Gender Politics and Female Employment: Metropolitan Variation in Women's

Economic Status," at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools

of Planning, Tempe, Arizona, November.

1994 “Metropolitan Variation in Women's Employment,” at the Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California, March.

1993 “Cities for Women: Local Labor Markets and Women's Economic Status,” at the

Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Philadelphia,

October.

1992 “Labor Squeeze and Ethnic/Racial Recomposition in the U.S. Apparel Industry,”

(with Paul Ong) lecture sponsored by the Center for Pacific Rim Studies at the

University of California, Los Angeles, May.

1991 “Time, Space, and the Reproduction of Inequality: Evidence from the U.S. Garment

Industry,” at the Annual Conference of Pacific Coast Geographers, Tucson,

September.

1991 “Research on the Garment Industry: A Regional and Institutional Approach” (with

Paul Ong), lecture sponsored by the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Los

Angeles, February.


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Service

Professional and Community Service

2014 Editorial Board

Economic Development Quarterly

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Referee

Case Studies on Transport Policy

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation


Journal of Poverty

Journal of the American Planning Association

Journal of Transport Geography

Journal of Urban Technology

METRANS (research proposal)

Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (research report)

Transport Review

Transportation

Transportation Research Board (conference papers)

Urban Studies

Chair

Mentoring Committee, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

Organizer, Post-Doctoral Workshop for Students of Color, UCLA—USC—

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

Committee Member

Social and Economic Factors of Transportation (ADD20), Transportation

Research Board, National Academy of Sciences




Journal of Transportation and Society

Referee

Children Youth Environments


Journal of the Transportation Research Board



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Transport Policy

Urban Studies

Committee Member


Social and Economic Factors of Transportation (ADD20), Transportation

Research Board, National Academy of Sciences





Referee

Journal of Planning Literature

Social Service Review

Transportation

University of California Transportation Center (grant proposal)

Committee Member






Referee

Environment and Planning A



Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (grant proposal)

Transportation






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Referee

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research


Journal of Planning Literature


Journal of Urban Affairs

Transportation Research Part A

Mineta Transportation Center (proposal review)



Referee

Environment and Planning B

Industrial Relations


Journal of Public Transportation


International Conference on Travel Behavior



Referee

Metrans Transportation Center, University of Southern California (proposal review)

Journal of Planning, Education and Research


Transportation Research Board (annual conference papers)

Urban Geography

Urban Studies

Committee Member

Committee on the Role of Public Transportation in Emergency Evacuation,

Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences



Referee


Journal of Regional Science



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Journal of Women, Politics and Policy

National Science Foundation (proposal review)

Public Administration Review

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Urban Geography

Metrans Transportation Center, University of Southern California (proposal review)

Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (proposal review)

World Conference on Transportation Researchers Conference (annual conference

papers)


Committee Member



Track Chair

World Conference on Transport Research



Committee Member



Referee



Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy


Urban Studies (2)


Track Chair




Committee Member

Committee on Women’s Issues in Transportation, Transportation Research Board,

National Academies


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Referee



National Science Foundation (grant proposal)

Population Research and Policy Review

Southern Economic Journal


Women’s Travel Conference, Transportation Research Board, National Academies

(conference papers)



Committee Member

Committee on Women’s Issues in Transportation, Transportation Research Board,

National Academies

Advisory Committee, Los Angeles Department of Transportation DASH Study

Referee

Growth and Change


Southern Economic Journal

Urban Studies

Public Institute of California

Mineta Transportation Institute

Transportation Research Board (annual conference)

University of Rhode Island Transportation Center

2003 Advisory Committee Member

Making the Connection between Transportation and Civil Rights

Civil Rights Project, Harvard University

Referee


Urban Studies

New England Transportation Center


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2002 Referee

APA Policy, Practice & Community. A Journal on Asian Pacific Americans


Journal of Transportation and Statistics

Social Service Review

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference

2000-2001 Technical Consultant

Los Angeles Department of Public Social Services, Welfare-to-Work

Transportation Inter-Agency Task Force, Phase II of CalWORKs Transportation

Planning Process.

2001 Referee



Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference

California Policy Research Center

New England Transportation Center

University of California Transportation Center

1999-2000 Organizer and Program Director

“Journey to Work: UCLA Symposium on Welfare Reform and Transportation,”

University of California, Los Angeles, April, 6-7, 2000.

2000 Referee

Transportation Planning and Technology

1999 Member

Economic Well-Being Workgroup of the Long-Term Family Self-Sufficiency

Planning Process, Los Angeles Department of Social Services.

1998 Organizer and Program Director

“Getting Welfare Recipients to Work: Transportation and Welfare Reform,”

University of California, Los Angeles, March, 26-27, 1998

University Service

2014-2015 Chair

Department of Urban Planning, Luskin School of Public Affairs


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Member

Chancellor’s Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research

Oversight Committee, UCLA

2013-2014 Chair

Department of Urban Planning, Luskin School of Public Affairs

Member

Ad Hoc Review Committee, UCLA

2012-2013 Vice-Chair

Committee on Degree Programs, Graduate Council, UCLA Academic Senate

Committee Member

Graduate Council, Academic Senate, UCLA

Administrative Committee, Graduate Council, Academic Senate



Committee Member

Social Justice Committee, Luskin School of Public Affairs

Committee on Degree Programs, Graduate Council, Academic Senate

Administrative Committee, Graduate Council, Academic Senate

2010-2011 Chair

Doctoral Program, Department of Urban Planning

Co-Chair

Committee on Degree Programs, Graduate Council, Academic Senate

Committee Member

Financial Aid Committee, Department of Urban Planning

Curriculum (PhD), Department of Urban Planning

Social Justice Committee, School of Public Affairs


2009-2010 Chair



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Committee Member


Curriculum (PhD), Department of Urban Planning

Staffing Working Group, Department of Urban Planning

Faculty Executive Committee, Department of Urban Planning

Faculty Executive Committee, School of Public Affairs


2008-2009 Chair


Committee Member


Curriculum (PhD program), Department of Urban Planning



Chair




Chair


Faculty Search Committee, Department of Urban Planning and Institute of the

Environment

Member

Ad Hoc Tenure Review Committee, UCLA

2005-2006 on sabbatical

2004-2005 Chair

Ph.D. Task Force, Department of Urban Planning

Client Project Committee, Department of Urban Planning


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Committee Member


Faculty Executive Committee, School of Public Policy and Social Research


Ad Hoc Tenure Review Committee, UCLA

2003-2004 Chair

Ph.D. Program, Department of Urban Planning


2001-2003 Committee Member

Ph.D. Program, Department of Urban Planning


1998-2002 Member

Executive Committee, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

School of Public Policy and Social Research

1997-2001 Coordinator

Student Recruitment, Department of Urban Planning

1999-2001 Elected Chair


1999-2001 Elected Member

Faculty Executive Committee, School of Public Policy and Social Research

2000-2001 Member


1998-1999 Member


1998-1999 Director

Undergraduate Program, Department of Urban Planning

1991-1992 Member


Documents

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