Allison Yoh is the Associate Director at the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies in the UCLA School of Public Affairs, and Associate Director at the Institute of Transportation Studies. Yoh’s research focuses generally on transportation planning and politics, and specifically on policies to cost-effectively improve public transit. She served for two years as a mayoral appointee to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) Board of Directors. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley; and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Urban Planning at UCLA.