Career Highlights

• Advising multiple Bay Area cities on California’s complex housing laws including the State Density Bonus Law, SB 35 Streamlining, the Housing Accountability Act, and the Housing Crisis Act of 2019.
• Resolving title issues and coordinating closings on over a dozen land transactions for the Peninsula Open Space Trust, as well as assisting with additional transactions and legal issues for other land trusts.
• Representing the Treasure Island Development Authority to implement its public trust land swap agreement with the State Lands Commission, including subdivision mapping, easement acquisition and dedication, and complex real estate closings.
• Successfully represented the East Bay Regional Park District in overcoming a challenge to its authority to independently manage its resources on park property (Save Lafayette Trees v. East Bay Regional Park District (2021) 66 Cal.App.5th 21).

Community Service, Publications, and Recognitions

• Presenter, AI for Land Trusts: Unlocking Potential and Mitigating Risks, Land Trust Alliance’s Rally Conference, September 2025 (Cleveland, OH).
• Presenter, When Commitments Are Forever, But the Land Trust Isn’t – Preparing for Dissolution, California Council of Land Trusts’ Conservation Forum, April 2025 (Yosemite, CA).
• Caitlin Brown, Navigating the Challenges Posed by SB 35, SMW In the Public Interest (September 28, 2020).

Bar Memberships

Member of the State Bar of California.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, JD, 2017

Stanford University, BA, Phi Beta Kappa, 2012

About Me

Before joining the firm, I worked for Outward Bound California as an instructor in the Sierra Nevada and as the Bay Area youth leadership corps coordinator. Unsurprisingly, my hobbies include trail running, backpacking, and skiing.