ReginaWallace-Jones is both an elected official (East Palo Alto mayor)and a tech executive.
SANTA CLARA, CA—When Regina Wallace-Jones was a student atStanford University in 1993, East Palo Alto was the murder capitalof 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 hasexperienced erratic growth and frequent conflict at times but manyaspects of the 2.5-square-mile city have changed since then.Wallace-Jones, East Palo Alto mayor, shared some of that historyand a penchant for change in a keynote speech during the 2020 CREWNetwork Winter Leadership Summit held last week at the Santa ClaraMarriott.
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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.
