Our Board of Directors
Meea Kang, Chairman of the Board
Meea Kang is a nationally recognized housing developer and policy leader with more than 25 years of experience delivering over 2,500 affordable and mixed-income homes across California. She co-founded the Council of Infill Builders in 2012 following California’s adoption of SB 375, which positioned infill and transit-oriented development as central strategies for reducing emissions and curbing sprawl. Meea brings a practitioner’s perspective to housing policy, shaped by decades of delivering complex infill projects in built-out communities. Her work focuses on addressing the regulatory, infrastructure, and financing barriers unique to infill development, challenges often overlooked despite the state’s growing reliance on infill housing to meet climate and housing goals. She is deeply hands-on in the Council’s legislative efforts, originating and drafting legislation from the ground up and translating real-world development constraints into implementable statutory and policy frameworks. Meea personally testifies at legislative hearings and, as Chairman, provides strategic leadership focused on building the next generation of housing in California’s infill communities by aligning climate policy, infrastructure investment, financing, and permitting with real-world delivery. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.
Andrew Malick, Treasurer
Andrew Malick leads Malick Infill and has over 20 years of experience in the real estate development industry. During his career he has worked in all three legs of the development process; construction, design, and development. Andrew was one of the first to see value in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego where he has designed and developed multiple projects. When not working on his projects, Andrew works passionately to help local and state government adapt housing policy to align with the sustainable development principles. He has participated in multiple stakeholder committees focused on the subject of housing affordability and helped author AB 2372 that aims to provide more moderate-income housing on transit corridors. He also co-authored an amendment to the San Diego Municipal Code that makes it easier for developers to build micro-units in an effort to boost market rate affordable housing. Andrew is a past member of the Management Committee for ULI San Diego – Tijuana District Council and is a Co-Founder and past chair of the Small-Scale Infill Development Council. He also founded and currently chairs the Transit Oriented Development Council. He has his master’s degrees in real estate development from Woodbury University and urban design and architecture from Washington University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Engineering from Trinity College.
David Mogavero, Secretary
David Mogavero is the Senior Principal of Mogavero Architects. He began his career designing naturally heated and cooled buildings thirty years ago. David’s practice embraces the full range of progressive community design, such as high-density mixed-use infill and holistic building systems, including daylighting, natural ventilation, passive heating and cooling, solar shading, water recycling, on-site energy generation and agriculture. David’s roles as developer and environmental advocate help him conceive projects that are economically viable and sensitive to the community and the environment. Through his professional practice, writings and lectures, service as past president and board member of the Environmental Council of Sacramento and the Planning and Conservation League, and current board member of the Council of Infill Builders, David has promoted the widespread adoption of sustainable building and smart growth practices and policies.
Jonathan Fearn, Director
Jonathan Fearn is Sr. Vice President, Development with Signature Development Group, an Oakland-based development firm specializing in the acquisition and development of commercial, residential, mixed-use, master-planned and adaptive reuse properties. Prior to his current role, Jonathan was Head of Development of Oak Impact Group, a locally based investment and development firm, and has spent over 15 years in institutional scale residential development – serving as Managing Director of Greystar, where he oversaw all development activities for Greystar in Northern California – a pipeline of over 5,000 units and $3B in value, and as Vice President at SummerHill Housing Group. Jonathan also serves a board member of MidPen Housing, Housing Trust Silicon Valley, Housing Action Coalition, and the Urban Land Institute and was a founding member of the Casita Coalition, a non-profit created to advocate for ADUs and small building forms.
Mott Smith, Director
Mott Smith is co-founder of Civic Enterprise, an L.A. firm that builds innovative, socially conscious projects in emerging neighborhoods and provides innovative parking and economic development solutions for cities and communities. He is very active in local, regional and state legislative issues. His built work has been honored by the Urban Land Institute, the L.A. Conservancy, and Architectural Record Magazine. He is a founding board member of the California Infill Builders Federation, teaches in USC’s Master of Real Estate Development Program and Planning Program in the USC Price School of Public Policy. Earlier, he was Acting Director of Planning for the L.A. Unified School District after serving as founding Executive Director of New Schools-Better Neighborhoods. He also worked as editor/business manager of The Planning Report. Mott is past president the Westside Urban Forum. He received a Master of Real Estate Development from USC and a BA in Linguistics from UCLA.