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Los Angeles City Planning Director to Speak at July 11 MSRE Graduation Ceremony

Gail Goldberg, planning director for the city of Los Angeles, will be the keynote speaker at the MSRE graduation ceremony scheduled for July 11 from 4- 8 p.m. at the university's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. USD's incoming School of Business Administration Dean David Pyke will also speak at the event. Pyke is joining USD from Dartmouth University, where he was associate dean of the MBA Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. The Tuck School of Business was recently ranked the No. 1 business school in the nation by The Wall Street Journal.

Goldberg was appointed director of the Los Angeles City Planning Department in February 2006. In this role, she is responsible for the development, maintenance and implementation of all elements of the city's General Plan, as well as a range of other special zoning plans. Prior to joining the Los Angeles Planning Department, Goldberg worked for 17 years in the Planning Department of the city of San Diego, the last five years of which she was planning director. During that time, she oversaw a planning process to update San Diego's 20-year-old General Plan.

Goldberg is a native Californian and holds a degree in Urban Studies and Planning from the University of California San Diego. She is an Urban Land Institute trustee, as well as past chair of the San Diego/Tijuana ULI District Council; immediate past president of the San Diego Chapter of the Lambda Alpha Honorary Land Economics Society; a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners; and a member of the California Planners Roundtable.

The ceremony is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception in the Garden of the Sea, located in the rear of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. If you would like to attend, contact Sean Hlavac at seanhlavac@sandiego.edu or (619) 260-8803.