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East Palo Alto’s Past Paves Way for Current Path

East Palo Alto mayor Regina Wallace-Jones shared the city’s history and a penchant for change during the 2020 CREW Network Winter Leadership Summit held last week in Santa Clara.

Regina Wallace-Jones Regina Wallace-Jones is both an elected official (East Palo Alto mayor) and a tech executive.

SANTA CLARA, CA—When Regina Wallace-Jones was a student at Stanford University in 1993, East Palo Alto was the murder capital of the Bay Area. When she returned as a full-time resident in 2002, that nickname had been removed.

Indeed, since its founding around 1849, East Palo Alto has experienced erratic growth and frequent conflict at times but many aspects of the 2.5-square-mile city have changed since then. Wallace-Jones, East Palo Alto mayor, shared some of that history and a penchant for change in a keynote speech during the 2020 CREW Network Winter Leadership Summit held last week at the Santa Clara Marriott.

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Lisa Brown

Lisa Brown

Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.

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