Dean Matsubayashi is Executive Director of Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), a 35-year-old neighborhood-based organization based in Little Tokyo. LTSC provides the social services that motivated its establishment along with programs focusing on holistic community growth, affordable housing, economic development, and revitalization of Little Tokyo. Matsubayashi serves on many non-profit boards of directors and on advisory boards for financial institutions and non-profit community development financial institutions. Matsubayashi grew up in the Venice neighborhood. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Irvine and his M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.