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Mr. Pedro Gomez February 26, 2021 Page 7 NELS YOUNGBORG Senior Associate / Architectural Historian Nels Youngborg has thirteen years of experience in the architectural inspection services and historic preservation fields. He holds a Masters Certificate in Historic Preservation from the University of Texas, San Antonio and is completing his thesis for a M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. For over six years, Nels worked as a consultant to advise public housing authorities on best practices for maintaining, weatherizing and rehabilitating their properties and how to approach projects that would impact historic resources. These services required experience with material life -cycle analysis, LEED AP accreditation, federal certification for real estate assessment, and intimate knowledge of Federal and State regulations regarding historic resources. Nels also worked as a student professional worker and an emergency appointment planning assistant at the City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning Office of Historic Resources for two years. He managed the Historic - Cultural Monument program, worked with the Cultural Heritage Commission to create their hearing schedule, wrote staff reports to advise the City's historic preservation cases, assisted in management of the Mills Act program, reviewed and cleared permits for historic resources, reviewed Environmental Impact Reports that proposed potential impacts to historic resources, and served as the social media coordinator for SurveyLA, the Los Angeles Citywide Historic Resources Survey. At Chattel, Nels has continued to manage aspects of the City of Los Angeles's Mills Act Program, including pre -approval and periodic inspections. Nels specializes in assessment of historic significance, design review, permit expediting, geolocational database management and map creation through ArcGIS software, material condition assessment and risk analysis, preparation of documentation to support local, State and Federal historic preservation regulations, such as the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Ordinance, Mills Act, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), and compliance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. OLIVIA WHITE Associate II / Architectural Historian Olivia holds a M.A. in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell University and a B.A. in American Studies from Saint Louis University. Her previous experience includes working for the Preservation Research Office in St. Louis, the Nevada Preservation Foundation in Las Vegas, and the Presidio Trust in San Francisco. At Chattel, Olivia has been involved in nearly all types of projects, including preparing historic resource assessments, local designation applications for historic properties, peer reviews, preservation plans, reviewing projects for conformance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties; participating in design collaboration; and performing construction monitoring. She was successful in preparing designation applications and advocating for the designation of two Santa Monica Landmarks in 2018, a turn -of -the -twentieth century single- family residence, and Carousel Park, a post-modern cultural landscape at the Santa Monica Pier. Olivia was selected to present at the Preserving the Recent Past (PRP3) conference in 2019 to discuss Carousel Park. Her master's thesis is a critique of rightsizing planning in Baltimore, Maryland looking specifically at Project C.O.R.E. and the projected impact it will have on historic resources in majority African -American neighborhoods. Olivia is passionate about the preservation of Brutalist architecture, the adaptive reuse of former industrial buildings, and making social equity central to preservation planning. Olivia meets the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards in Architectural History.