Advisory Services Panel Opportunities for Students
The ULI (Urban Land Institute) Advisory Services team has two exciting opportunities for students and young leaders
ULI Graduate Student Fellowship
May 25, 2022
The Graduate Student Fellowship is a two-year program open to graduate students in real estate disciplines. The fellowship starts during the second year of graduate school and continues for another year after the fellows graduate. The hope of the program is that those chosen to be Graduate Student Fellows today will be the leaders of tomorrow.
Year 1 Fellows
ULI Chamberlain Graduate Student Fellows
Emily Goldstein-University of Pennsylvania
Emily Goldstein is a second-year Master of City Planning candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in equitable economic development practices that elevate public resources and private investments toward the advancement of more productive and resilient communities. Prior to starting the MCP program at UPenn, she lived and worked in New York City supporting capital planning and streetscape development for a business improvement district in Lower Manhattan.
A born and raised Carolina Tar Heel fan, Emily received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studied geography and public policy. In her free time, Emily enjoys biking, exploring new neighborhoods, looking at art, and sometimes attempting to make it.
Dahlia Idris- Cornell University
Dahlia Idris is a first-year master’s candidate in the Baker Program in Real Estate at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business. At Cornell, Dahlia is an Editor for the Cornell Real Estate Review and the Vice President for the Association of Women in Real Estate (ACWIRE). Prior to Cornell, she worked as a Development Analyst for S P Setia Berhad, managing integrated mixed-use high-rise developments. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Civil Engineering. She also earned her certificate in Real Estate Economics and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2019.
Elizabeth Kuwada-University of San Francisco Public Sector
Elizabeth Kuwada is an affordable housing developer with a wide range of experience managing the development and preservation of housing throughout the Bay Area. She is an Associate Director of Real Estate Development with Mercy Housing, the nation’s largest non-profit affordable housing provider. She currently oversees and supports affordable housing and community development within the 50-acre Sunnydale HOPE SF project, the revitalization of San Francisco’s largest public housing community into a mixed-income neighborhood in San Francisco. Before joining Mercy Housing, Elizabeth worked for Eden Housing in Hayward, CA, and Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation in Boston, MA. Prior to her career in affordable housing, Elizabeth worked as an architectural designer. Elizabeth received a Master in City Planning and a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from MIT, where she additionally received an Urban Design Certificate, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Yale University. In her free time, Elizabeth enjoys traveling near and far, embarking on DIY projects, and spending time outside with her dachshund mix puppy, Ringo.
Esmeralda Jardines- University of California, Berkeley
Originally from East Los Angeles and now based in San Francisco, Esmeralda Jardines joins the Urban Land Institute (ULI) while pursuing the Abbey Master of Real Estate Development + Design (MRED+D) degree at the University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design (CED), where she previously received a B.A. in Urban Studies, after careers in both Architecture and City Planning.
Esmeralda has joined ULI and is pursuing the Abbey MRED+D because she is interested in the intersection of real estate investment, finance, urban design, and land use law as well as the role that all aforementioned have in the built environment. She is motivated to learn to how to develop and build affordable, equitable, and climate-resilient buildings, neighborhoods, and cities. She hopes to utilize and access the multifaceted networks at ULI; Esmeralda is grateful and feels humbled, honored, and indebted to have been selected as a ULI Chamberlin Graduate Student Fellow. She recognizes that ULI will provide her with the resources needed to meet, expand, and invest in a network of like-minded real estate development professionals that are trying to make a difference, one crisis at a time, with the tools at their disposal, the built environment.
She would like to convey her tremendous gratitude and appreciation to the Urban Land Institute!
Casey Pond-University of California Berkeley
Casey Pond is a student in the Abbey Master of Real Estate Development and Design (MRED+D) program in UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
Prior to joining UC Berkeley’s MRED+D program, Casey worked for the Urban Land Institute San Francisco (ULI SF), allowing her to explore her interest in real estate and passion for sustainable and equitable land use and development. As a Senior Associate, Casey supported the work of ULI SF’s many members, committees, and initiatives, including Housing the Bay, the Young Leaders Group (YLG), and the Sustainability Committee.
Casey received her undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and Business Communications from UC Santa Barbara. She is a Bay Area native, and following the completion of her MRED+D degree Casey will be joining the Prado Group in San Francisco as a Development and Operations Associate.
ULI Etkin Graduate Student Fellows
Ezra McPhail-ULI Etkin Graduate Student Fellowship
Ezra McPhail is a motivated, ambitious Master of Business Administration candidate at the University of Colorado – Boulder Leeds School of Business pursuing his passion for Real Estate with an emphasis in Finance. Prior to embarking on his pursuit of an MBA, Ezra worked in the media/advertising industry building and implementing his client’s strategies for their advertising campaigns. During his tenure, Ezra interpreted his client’s campaign goals and translated them into an actionable media placement strategy to accomplish their KPIs. He hopes to leverage the skills and experience gained at CU to pivot into the commercial real estate industry. Currently, Ezra has a full-time internship as an acquisition analyst and asset management analyst at a boutique multifamily investment shop in Denver. In this role, he’s tasked with underwriting multifamily assets nationwide along with preparing deal presentations for the investment committee. He also is tasked with keeping the asset management tracker updated with 12 properties in the recently closed Fund I as well as the new acquisitions in Fund II. Ezra hopes to continue down this path in either acquisitions or asset/portfolio management. In his free time, Ezra can be found adaptive sit-skiing at one of many Colorado ski resorts, backpacking with his dog in Lost Creek Wilderness, or preparing a new dish in the kitchen.