Tamar Saunders is an LA native with a passion for energy efficiency within the built environment and housing equity. She is currently working as a Project Developer at Eden Housing, Inc concentrating her efforts on increasing Eden’s affordable housing portfolio in the Southern California region. She presently has a 67-unit affordable senior housing development under construction and a 209-unit family and senior affordable housing project in predevelopment.
Prior to this, she worked in short-term bridge financing and was consulting on zero energy building design while in graduate school. She has a Masters in Development Practice from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, M.A. from 上智大学 (Sophia University) in Tokyo, Japan, and a B.A. from Princeton University. She also is a LEED Green Associate and holds a California Real Estate license. On her free time you can find her at the pool doing Masters synchronized swimming or making handcrafted herbal products in her kitchen.