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Preeti Hehmeyer is the managing director of the California Policy Research Initiative (CAPRI), where she works to connect state and local policy makers to ³ÉÈË´óƬ research.
 
Prior to joining SIEPR, Preeti served as ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Assistant Vice President for Community Engagement, building out a network of academic-community partnerships in the Bay Area. She was previously the Associate Director for ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Bill Lane Center for the American West, where she worked to advance regional policy solutions to pressing environmental and climate issues. Preeti regularly teaches classes for ³ÉÈË´óƬ Public Policy and Urban Studies, exposing students to local government and land use issues in California. She has worked in higher education for more than a decade and immediately prior to joining ³ÉÈË´óƬ was a management consultant for public agencies in California.
 
Preeti received her BA in Political Science and City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley and her MPA from the University of Southern California. In addition to her policy work at ³ÉÈË´óƬ, Preeti recently concluded her second term as an appointed member of the City of Mountain View’s Environmental Planning Commission.