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Lynn Kaufman, Associate Principal, has over 25 years of experience in both the management and preparation of environmental review documents pursuant to CEQA and NEPA for clients in both the public and private sector. Ms. Kaufman has written numerous CEQA analyses for high profile and environmentally sensitive projects in both urban and rural settings, and acts as a day-to-day contact for in-house and agency staff, subconsultants, and applicants, providing valuable insight to identify environmental constraints and feasible mitigation measures.

Douglas Kim, AICP, Managing Principal, oversees Northern California environmental services for Impact Sciences. His 30-year career includes political, policy, and technical expertise in transportation, air quality, and land use planning. Mr. Kim has prepared and reviewed CEQA and NEPA documents for land use and transportation projects and authored guidance documents on how to perform air quality analyses for two air pollution control districts. He has performed noise, vibration, climate change, and traffic impact analyses for over 100 CEQA environmental analyses throughout California. Mr. Kim has developed long- and short-range multi-modal transportation plans, including performing alternatives analyses, and managing technical modeling. He has managed preparation of air quality plans, developed air quality regulations, climate action plans, and performed air quality analysis and dispersion modeling for land use plans and development projects throughout the state.

Shabnam Barati, Ph.D., is Managing Principal for the Northern California-Oakland office. Dr. Shabnam Barati has extensive CEQA experience and has managed numerous complex and high-profile CEQA projects for a wide variety of municipal, agency, university, and private clients over the last 20 years. She is well known by our clients and throughout the environmental industry for the depth of her CEQA knowledge and her dedication to producing thorough, well scoped documents that stand up to legal review and challenge. Her clients appreciate her skill in strategically evaluating each individual project’s needs, enabling her teams to provide CEQA documents that achieve adequacy without overreaching.

Jessica Kirchner Flores, AICP, President, is Managing Principal for the Southern California offices. Stepping into a new role as President, Jessica works closely with the Principals of the firm to achieve the vision of its founders to “be better.” Her corporate responsibilities include contract compliance and financial management with an eye toward strategic growth.   Jessica has more than a decade of project work in CEQA/NEPA compliance and places an emphasis on meeting client needs and providing real-world solutions to common CEQA pitfalls.  As a team leader, she provides project oversight, workload coordination, personnel management, and training.