Claire provides research and analytical support for open space and real estate development projects.

Prior to joining HR&A, Claire worked for the Massachusetts Port Authority as part of the Real Estate Strategy and Policy Division, where she contributed to the creation of long-term strategies for the agency’s citywide properties and helped grow its public realm initiative. Previously, she worked for social impact real estate development firm Bastogne Development Partners and for the Center City District in Philadelphia.

Claire holds a Masters in Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College.

Daniel drives innovative housing investment strategies that create greater access to affordable, sustainable communities.

As a Principal in HR&A’s Washington, DC office, Daniel leads the design and deployment of housing funds for public, philanthropic, and impact investor clients. His work has guided billions of dollars in affordable housing investment, leveraging both traditional tools, like tax credits, and emerging approaches beyond LIHTC. He currently leads HR&A’s support for the deployment of Amazon’s housing fund in the National Capital Region.

Before joining HR&A, Daniel was a Senior Associate at RCLCO Real Estate Advisors.

Eri advises visionary clients in government, advocacy, and philanthropy on making cities more resilient and equitable through strategic planning, policy, and inclusive community engagement. .

Eri partners with leaders inside and outside government to drive policy change that improves the lives of marginalized communities. Her recent work includes building the case for universal rental assistance by quantifying the benefits of expanding access to housing vouchers for all eligible New Yorkers and supporting the Massachusetts Broadband Institute in developing a statewide plan to close the digital divide.

Eri brings deep expertise in inclusive stakeholder engagement. She has worked alongside community-based organizations in Baltimore, MD; Portland, OR; Oakland, CA; Harris County, TX; and Miami-Dade County, FL, to help local leaders articulate priorities backed by community data.

She also supports newly elected progressive leaders to govern from day one and harness the power of local government to advance racial equity and economic justice. Eri recently supported Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato on All In Allegheny, the largest and most inclusive community engagement initiative in county history, which helped shape the administration’s agenda across sustainability, housing, health, and civic infrastructure.

Eri helps public agencies respond to the climate crisis by developing operational strategies that center environmental justice. For LA Metro, she supported the development of an internal tool that enables departments across the agency to integrate climate resilience and equity into everyday decision-making.

Prior to joining HR&A, Eri served in the Zoning and Urban Design Divisions at the New York City Department of City Planning. There, she conducted modeling and urban design studies for Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency, a text amendment created in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy to build long-term resiliency in flood-prone neighborhoods.

Eri holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Tokyo and a master’s degree in urban planning from Columbia University. In 2024, she was selected as one of 40 national leaders for the Next City Vanguard. Eri previously served on the City of Somerville’s Climate Action Commission.

Jamison advises clients through complex planning and development projects with a focus on public-private partnerships that leverage innovative funding and financing tools to create thriving and sustainable places.

Drawing upon a decade’s worth of professional and academic experience in government affairs and development, Jamison supports the firm’s implementation and management of public policy initiatives.

Prior to joining HR&A, Jamison worked at the Citizens Budget Commission as Director of Infrastructure Studies where he provided ongoing economic, budgetary, and financial analysis of public sector infrastructure entities including the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the City and State of New York. His research promoted improved decision making in public sector infrastructure investment and fiscally sustainable financial planning to ensure existing assets are available for future generations’ use.

Jamison earned his master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Georgia, and he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Government from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Zack is an alumnus of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, where he earned a Master’s degree in Translation Studies. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Missouri State University, located in Springfield, Missouri.

Garrett Rapsilber leverages real estate and economic analysis to inform urban planning and public policy outcomes which are market-grounded, implementable, and advance community goals.

Garrett has provided real estate advisory services for clients across California and the nation, covering topics including land use and site planning, inclusionary zoning programs, adaptive reuse policies, and value capture tools. His experience includes serving as an economic advisor for over 5 years to the City of Los Angeles for the Downtown Community Plan Update (DTLA 2040), overseeing the development of a comprehensive community benefits and inclusionary zoning system with will set a path for more predictable and streamlined approval of development projects in an area of the city forecast to accommodate 175,000 new residents, 100,000 housing units, and 100,000 jobs by 2040. Work also explored development topics including the viability of live-work units and adaptive reuse project, and displacement risks of LA’s garment industry, concentrated in the Fashion District, to inform zoning and other strategic policy decisions. City Council adopted DTLA 2040 in May 2023.

Garrett also serves as a leader within HR&A’s Climate Practice with a focus on the green economy and the just transition. His work has helped inform local, state, and national legislation, including economic impact analysis which supported the $150 billion investment in the nation’s electric vehicle infrastructure included in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. On behalf of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), he was an author to comprehensive green jobs study for Los Angeles County which found the green economy is larger than most people think, comprising 1 in 12 jobs as of 2020, and demonstrated that policy interventions are required to support the inclusive growth of the green workforce. Acting on a recommendation from that report, he worked with LACI to facilitate the Green Jobs Regional Partnership, a multiyear partnership of workforce development leaders to develop and implement a roadmap of milestones, targets, and actions to overcome critical challenges in the workforce ecosystem and achieve countywide green jobs goals. This roadmap was released in May 2025.

Garrett also offers thought leadership on the topic of public options, particularly public banking, to address market failures. His work documenting banking access in California allowed The California Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to successfully advocate for the passage of AB 1177, otherwise known as CalAccount, in October 2021 to establish a public banking option to give all Californians access to highquality, low-cost financial services. In its continued advocacy for CalAccount, SEIU retained HR&A in 2024 to refresh reporting on statewide banking access and the potential economic impacts of solving this persistent issue. The report found 1 in 5 California households cannot access basic financial services such as checking and savings accounts and debit cards and that solving the issue of financial access could cumulatively save households $3.1 billion and generate $5 billion in economic activity annually.

Prior to joining HR&A, Garrett worked for the City of West Hollywood where he researched, designed, and administered the city’s first parklet program. Previously at Strategic Development Solutions, Garrett supported applications for New Market Tax Credits, with awards totaling $270M for economic development projects in distressed communities.

Garrett received a Master of Planning degree from the University of Southern California with a concentration on economic development. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science & Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Literature from the University of Connecticut.

Santiago supports governments, non-profit organizations, and development banks in the design and implementation of financing and governance strategies for infrastructure, transit-oriented development, and inclusive economic development projects.

Santiago has advised transit agencies like the Jacksonville Transportation Authority and Development Banks such as the Inter-American Development Bank in developing transit-oriented development (TOD) strategies to advance equitable transit and real estate development solutions. Santiago has also supported non-profit organizations and city agencies in the development of land value capture strategies that support the implementation of large-scale projects and neighborhood planning efforts. At HR&A, Santiago supports the development of advanced quantitative tools and models to support the financial and econometric analyses of the firm.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago has recently managed financing strategies for infrastructure and transit projects on behalf of the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank in Colombia, that included the support in the implementation of new land value capture strategies in the region. Santiago analyzed innovative business models for the creation of broadband infrastructure networks in Colombia on behalf of Ruta N.

Prior to joining HR&A, Santiago worked for several years in real estate development in Colombia where he supported the construction of several projects across different cities in the country. Santiago holds a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute, and a Degree in Economics from Universidad de los Andes.

Jared helps local government agencies leverage public investment in infrastructure and place-based economic development to catalyze the private sector in support of long-range planning initiatives.

As a Principal in HR&A’s San Francisco Bay Area office, Jared draws on his experience in urban planning, real estate, and sustainable systems to support public and private sector clients across the firm’s Real Estate, Transit-Oriented Development, Economic Development, Parks and Open Space, and Climate practices. Much of Jared’s time at HR&A has been spent supporting the Blue Line Corridor initiative in Prince George’s County, MD. Beginning in 2020 with a 30-year vision that has secured over $450M in state funding and bonding capacity to date for catalytic investments in public facilities, Jared continues to lead implementation across a broad portfolio of infrastructure, facility, and governance projects. While at HR&A, Jared has also lead the development of the 100RC Resilient Houston Strategy, numerous joint development feasibility studies for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, a TOD Strategy for the Maryland Department of Transportation’s MARC Penn Line, the Station North Economic Development Implementation Roadmap for the Central Baltimore Partnership and Johns Hopkins University, and a development vision for the Port of Oakland’s Airport Business Park.

Prior to joining HR&A, Jared served as the Open Space Program Manager at Place Lab in San Francisco, where he focused on leveraging public private partnerships to create new public open spaces with innovative stewardship models. He managed multiple public open space development projects simultaneously via In-Kind Agreements between private developers and City agencies. He also helped establish the Dogpatch & NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD), California’s first-ever GBD, modeled after the state Community Benefit District program and designed specifically for residential neighborhoods. While at Place Lab, Jared coordinated multiple public art installations, including writing and securing grants, drafting and managing artist and vendor RFPs and contracts, managing City approvals and permits, and overseeing installation.

Previously, Jared coordinated the planning and development of a mixed-use, multifamily transit-oriented development project at Tsen & Associates as a Development Associate. Jared has also held positions at the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority and MindClick SGM.

Jared earned a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Michigan.

Gail focuses on crafting strategies that support equitable economic development, creating vibrant and inclusive open spaces, and advising a wide array of clients on pressing urban policy issues.

Previously, Gail was a researcher at the Center for an Urban Future, where she contributed to reports on topics including healthcare worker transportation, public parks infrastructure, and regulation of for-profit colleges. She also worked for the B-Hub at ideas42, where she translated academic behavioral science research findings into actionable solutions to real-world problems. Prior to graduate school, Gail served as a Senior Research Analyst at CEB (now Gartner) and as a Customer Experience Analyst at ORC International.

Gail is a native New Yorker and earned her Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Cornell University.