Ken Bernstein

Ken Bernstein is manager of the Office of Historic Resources for the City of Los Angeles' Department of City Planning, where he directs Los Angeles' historic preservation policies. In this capacity, he serves as lead staff member for the City's Cultural Heritage Commission, is launching a multi-year citywide survey of historic resources, with significant support from the Getty Foundation, and is working to create a comprehensive historic preservation program for Los Angeles. He previously served for eight years as director of preservation issues for the Los Angeles Conservancy, the largest local non-profit historic preservation organization in the country, where he directed the Conservancy's public policy and advocacy activities. He served as planning and transportation deputy to Los Angeles City Councilmember Laura Chick, from 1993 to 1998, and worked for three years as editor of The Planning Report, a monthly publication on urban planning, housing, and transportation issues in Southern California. He is an adjunct professor in the Urban Studies and Planning Department of California State University, Northridge (CSUN), teaching a course on urban planning for the public sector. He has a master's degree in Public Affairs and Urban and Regional Planning from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University.