KeAndra Cylear Dodds is the Executive Officer, Equity and Race at LA Metro where she leads the agency’s efforts to normalize and operationalize equity into all facets of its work. Before joining Metro, she oversaw the Los Angeles County’s affordable housing preservation and homeownership programs and developed several tenant protection policies as Manager of Preservation at the LA County Development Authority. She also worked as a Housing and Transportation Deputy for LA County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis. Outside of government, she has worked as Senior Program Director of Policy and Special Initiatives at Enterprise Community Partners, a national non-profit. She began her career as a California state affordable housing attorney at Western Center on Law and Poverty. KeAndra received her law degree from the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law and her bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania.