Philip Hart

Biographie : Philip S. Hart, Ph.D. CEO Hart Realty Advisors Hollywood, CA Philip Hart is CEO of Hart Realty Advisors (a division of Tanya Hart Communications, Inc.) in Hollywood, CA., a fourteen-year old integrated real estate, urban planning and entertainment/media company. During 2008-2009 Hart served as the first Managing Director of Member Diversity Initiatives for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) where he developed a business plan for that organization aimed at increasing its diversity. The implementation of this plan began in July 2009 with the launch of the ULI Colorado/City and County of Denver Real Estate Diversity Initiative (REDI). Prior to this position Hart was Executive Director of the ULI Los Angeles District Council, the first District Council to reach 2,000 members in 2006 under Hart's leadership. Hart has served as a construction manager with HNTB/Yang for the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) $20 billion new school construction and modernization program. Hart served as project manager for the 5,000 seat, $60 million West Angeles Cathedral in South Los Angeles which was dedicated in April 2001 and is Senior Advisor for the West Angeles Campus and West Angeles Village Building Strategy Team. Hart was master developer for the 75-acre CrossTown Industrial Park in Roxbury, Massachusetts which has high technology, biotechnology, office, retail, industrial, textile manufacturing, public utility and hotel tenants. For over 25 years Hart was a Professor of Sociology and Director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Hart is on the Urban Design Committee for the Los Angeles Metro Exposition Construction Authority Light Rail Line which opens in mid-2010 from downtown Los Angeles to Culver City. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Hollywood Cap Park. Hart is on the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors; the Governing Board of Directors of AbilityFirst; and Board of Governors of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC). Hart is an award winning author and filmmaker. His most recent general trade book is "African Americans and the Future of New Orleans." Hart has received numerous honors including, 1992 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Children for "Flying Free: America's First Black Aviators;" Distinguished Alumni, University of Colorado, 1995; "Philip S. Hart Day" in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for contributions as a public intellectual, February 5, 2002; Human Dignity Award from the Metropolitan Los Angeles YMCA, January 2004; 'Good Neighbor Award' from the First United Methodist Church, Los Angeles, 2008, among others. Hart earned his B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he was a cum laude graduate and student-athlete. Hart's graduate degrees were earned at Michigan State University and his doctorate dissertation is titled "Problems in Organizational Renewal." Hart is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and has served on Advisory Services panels in Camden, NJ., San Antonio, TX, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, La; Albuquerque, NM., among others. Hart has co-sponsored ULI Advisory Services panels in Roxbury, MA and Hollywood, CA. Hart resides in Los Angeles with his wife and family. October 2009