Vinita brings fifteen plus years of experience from the nonprofit and public sectors and as a consultant, where she has worked at the intersection of affordable housing, place making, transportation, climate resilience, small business development, sustainable agriculture, and the arts. Vinita is passionate about place-based solutions that align infrastructure improvements with community needs and aspirations, include and validate the personal and community-based experiences of those impacted, and forge strong working partnerships with allied organizations and anchor institutions that are instrumental in engaging and empowering the community and creating alternate pathways to equitable solutions. Vinita is deeply interested in addressing systemic root causes for disparities and in that vein she has been a strong advocate for shared equity housing/community land trusts as well as has provided capacity support in different settings she has been a part of—in Silicon Valley, and most recently in Vallejo and Richmond. In her other time, Vinita is an independent consultant and writer and holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the Government College of Architecture, Lucknow, India and a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.