Cultural Heritage Commissioners

Richard Barron is a registered architect and has practiced architecture in Los Angeles for 30 years. Since 1987, he has been Principal of Richard Barron/Architects Inc., where he has specialized in the rehabilitation of historic structures for affordable housing. He has won Preservation Awards from the Los Angeles Conservancy and California Preservation Foundation for the rehabilitation of St. Andrew’s Bungalow Court in Hollywood, for the adaptive reuse of downtown Los Angeles’ St. George Hotel as affordable housing, and for the adaptive reuse of Hollywood’s Palomar Hotel, site of a tragic, deadly fire in 2001, as senior apartments. As a founding member of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association, he helped spearhead the passage of a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ) for Highland Park, and has served on the Highland Park HPOZ Board since its inception.

Glen C. Dake, ASLA, has a Bachelor of Science in landscape architecture from Cornell University. His professional work includes prominent campus improvements at UCLA and at UCSD’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography, as well as the innovative outdoor learning environment for Los Angeles’ High Tech High School. He worked for four years as Councilmember Eric Garcetti’s Green Deputy, and serves on the Board of Directors for numerous Los Angeles civic organizations, including the Committee to Save Silver Lake's Reservoirs, the Los Angeles Community Garden Council, the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, and the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council.

Miriam "Mia" Guttfreund Lehrer, ASLA, is an internationally acclaimed landscape designer and founding principal of the Los Angeles firm, Mia Lehrer + Associates. Born in San Salvador, El Salvador, Ms. Lehrer received her Master of Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She worked on large-scale public projects such as the World Bank Coastal Zone Project in El Salvador, as well as small, intimate gardens for residential clients. Ms. Lehrer leads the ML+A office on a diverse range of ambitious public and private projects that include large urban parks, such as the expansive Baldwin Hills Park Master Plan; historic renovation projects such as the courtyards at Union Station in Los Angeles; challenging commercial projects like the outdoor plaza at the Capital Records building in Hollywood; and residential projects that vary in scale and context. She is on the Board of Directors at TreePeople and the Collage Dance Theater, and serves on the Hollywood Design Review Committee.

Oz Scott is an accomplished and award-winning television, theatrical and motion picture director with over two decades of experience, having directed hundreds of television episodes along with dozens of stage productions, made-for-TV movies, and motion pictures. Scott’s credits include The Jeffersons, Archie Bunker’s Place, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Picket Fences, JAG, Soul Food, CSI, and Ed. In addition, Scott directed both the video that introduced Jesse Jackson to the 1988 Democratic Convention and the Nelson Mandela Rally for Freedom at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1990. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. A resident of Sherman Oaks, Scott has a longtime personal interest in architecture and enjoys scouting unique Los Angeles historic locations for his productions.

Roella H. Louie has previously served as Deputy Director of the Workforce Development Division in the Community Development Department, and from 1989 to 2001 was Director of Public Art and Cultural Planning for the Cultural Affairs Department, where she created the “Percent for Arts Expenditure” program,which allocates one percent of private construction costs topublic arts improvement. Louie holds a Master in Arts Administration degree from California State University at Dominguez Hills, and is a native of Los Angeles, currently living in Westwood Hills. She previously served on the Cultural Heritage Commission during 2004-2005, as an appointee of former Mayor Hahn.