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Alvaro Huerta, Los Angeles
Jeffrey Juarez was a psychology major at UCLA about five years ago when he noticed a small red flier that would alter his life. "Do you want to change the world? Consider urban planning," it said. When he called the number on the paper, Alvaro Huerta answered. "Look no further," Juarez recalled hearing from the man who would become his mentor.
Today, Juarez is a graduate student at MIT's Urban Studies and Planning Department and Huerta is the recipient of APA's 2011 Paul Davidoff Award. Huerta read about Davidoff 's work when he first studied urban planning in graduate school at UCLA in 1994. "I knew I was interested in social justice. I already had that in me," says Huerta, one of eight children...