PEN Oral History Project - American Planning Association California Chapter

Our Mission

The PEN Oral History Project was initiated in 2025 to recognize and honor accomplished California planners and other individuals whose career achievements and contributions to the profession demonstrate excellence in planning and offer aspirational role models for planners. The mission is two-fold: 1) to profile, respect, and increase awareness of planning pioneers; and 2) to inform, provoke thought, stimulate interest, and elicit action on important planning topics. The project consists of recorded interviews accessible from this webpage. New interviews will be added each year in the order they were recorded.

For additional information about the Oral History Project, click here. We highly welcome suggestions on persons to interview. Please contact Hanson Hom, CPAT Program Coordinator, at [email protected].

AICP CM credit (0.5 unit for each interview) is now available for the Oral History Project. You can obtain your credits by going to https://planning.org/cm/search/. Search for the interviews by entering the keywords “Oral History.”