Perloff Lecture Series on 100 Years of Transportation Research
Presented by UCLA Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
The Story of Peter Gallegos with Peter Chesney
Join us for a lecture based on original research documenting the experiences of Peter Gallegos, a blind Native American. Peter moved to Los Angeles from a Great Plains reservation with his seeing-eye dog. This talk will explore his mobility challenges and what happened after his dog was tragically killed by a hit-and-run driver.
DR. PETER CHESNEY is a graduate of UCLA’s Ph.D. program in history. Now he is a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt. At UCLA, he received a certificate in Urban Humanities alongside students in architecture and urban and regional planning. Later he participated in two Luskin Center for History & Policy research teams, which co-authored policy papers entitled “People Are Simply Unable to Pay the Rent” and “A Century of Fighting Traffic Congestion in Los Angeles (1920-2020).”