School Development

JASMINE SADAT

267-***-**** ******@********.***

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EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley

Master of City & Regional Planning May 2014

Spelman College

Bachelor of Arts: Sociology May 2011

RESEARCH

Summer Researcher Fellow May 2014 – Aug 2014

Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society – Director, John A. Powell, Ph.D.

• Identified areas with employment and housing barriers that prevented upward economic mobility

• Analyzed factors that counteract access to opportunity, using geographic information systems (GIS)

• Connected marginalized communities to opportunity-rich areas as an innovative tool to address fair housing issues and advance racial and social justice through community development

Graduate Student Researcher Jan 2013 – Jun 2013

Urban Analytics Lab – UC Berkeley, City & Regional Planning, Department Chair, Paul Waddell, Ph.D.

• Assisted with construction of UrbanSim project, open-parcel database for nine-county Bay Area

• Compiled parcel data into appropriate GIS formats for analysis and mapping

• Identified affordable housing inefficiencies, focusing on zoning and employment

EXPERIENCE

Community Liaison Intern Jan 2014 – May 2014

City of Oakland, California – Councilmember, Dan Kalb

• Assisted with constituent cases as an effort to analyzed crime issues

• Managed Councilmember’s media relations and performed ethnographic research

• Produced report on deficiencies in Oakland’s crime-prevention measure, Measure Y

Graduate Student Instructor, Planning and Environmental Law Aug 2013 – Dec 2013

University of California, Berkeley – Professor, Frederick Etzel, JD

• Assisted with instruction of American legal system and its application to planning and environmental law

• Interpreted court decisions, statutes, and legal opinions to City Planning students

• Organized and managed course website for grading legal problem sets, midterms, and final examinations

Planning & Urban Development Intern Jun 2013 – Aug 2013

City of Akron, Ohio – Director of Planning and Urban Development, Marco Sommerville

• Authored report on Akron’s student housing market

• Calculated projections for population growth and housing demand

• Determined whether additional student housing coincided with Akron’s Downtown Area Plan

COMPETENCIES

• Computer software (InDesign, SketchUp, Zotero, Illustrator, ArcGIS, Microsoft Office Suite software)

• Pro forma, projections, demographics and site analyses

• Strong organizational, communication and interpersonal skills

• Detailed-oriented, results-focused, and proven ability to meet tight deadlines

AFFILIATIONS

• American Planning Association, California Chapter

• Politics in Public Policy, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy

• Berkeley Planning Journal, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

• Blacks in Public Policy, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy

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