Alisa Karlan

As Vice President of Land Use & Planning at Cerrell Associates Inc. (CAI), Alisa Karlan works closely with clients on real estate entitlement, community engagement and government relations projects and services.  Alisa has a wealth of experience developing and managing strategic government and community outreach programs, and building grassroots and stakeholder coalitions for public and private clients.   She also has extensive experience developing community outreach campaigns involving multiple communities and jurisdictions. 

Prior to joining CAI, Alisa served as assistant project manager at Consensus Planning Group (CPG).  At CPG, she was responsible for managing community outreach for land use clients and developing and implementing public participation programs for projects undergoing environmental review processes as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA).   While at CPG, Alisa oversaw a community outreach program for the I-710 Major Corridor Study, which involved 13 cities, multiple agencies and close collaboration with the Gateway Cities Council of Governments, the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach and other relevant stakeholders.

Previously, Alisa was an analyst at the public policy and management consulting firm of Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler.  She provided assistance with research and writing for various litigation and management consulting clients.  She also collected and analyzed data for management and economic development consulting projects.

Alisa received her Bachelor of Science degree in public policy and management, at the University of Southern California.  She is fluent in Korean.