Cassie Hoeprich
UHI Fellow
After completing the Urban Humanities Initiative program in the spring of 2020, Cassie joined the coLAB team to serve as a Research Assistant and Project Manager. She is a Masters in Urban & Regional Planning candidate through the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs with an anticipated date of completion in June 2021. Her studies at UCLA are focused on how warped land governance structures, defunct government policies, and fraught urban design perpetuate wealth disparities, systemic racism, and “uneven development” throughout cities across North America.
Prior to academia, Cassie worked for the City of San Francisco on community-based projects, including public grants program management and urban design project development. These opportunities allowed her the opportunity to work under several Mayors and lead a Mayoral neighborhood strategy for the Central Market/Tenderloin neighborhood. The initiatives bridged public and private efforts to create equitable public spaces, enable workforce development in low-income neighborhoods, support small businesses as well as youth and arts organizations, and ultimately address broken bureaucracy so that the City could better serve the people of San Francisco.