Sujata Srivastava

Sujata is SPUR's chief policy officer, overseeing the policy team. Before taking on this role, she was SPUR's planning and housing policy director. While at SPUR, Sujata has led policy research and advocacy for downtown San Francisco's revitalization and strategies to improve housing affordability throughout the region.

Raised in Brazil and the United States by Indian immigrants, Sujata strives to bring a global perspective to her work as an urban planner. Before joining SPUR, she was a consultant at Strategic Economics and at AECOM | Economics Research Associates, where she advised public and private-sector clients on affordable housing, transit-oriented development, small business development, and real estate development in the U.S. and Latin America. Sujata holds a Master’s in city planning from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College.