Alicia joins Trifiletti Consulting as our Senior Project Manager, leading projects relating to municipal infill infrastructure, land use and affordable housing. Alicia leads Project Management Teams for the ability to get projects sized between $400M-$1B shovel ready on behalf of private and public clients. She provides Project Management technical assistance and land use entitlements expertise to Developers through interface with political leadership and municipal staff, land use and transactional real estate/corporations counsel, architects, public relations firms, geotechnical and environmental consultants, construction firms, and other technical consultants for real estate infill projects.

Alicia serves Trifiletti Consulting as the lead Project Director on a project relating to the creation of 1000 housing units, with 40%+ affordability and 1M square feet of residential floor area, neighborhood-serving commercial (retail/restaurant uses, and another 100,000 of community center and municipal office uses.  Further, she leads as Project Director on another new construction infill infrastructure project in South Los Angeles, to create 800 units of housing, 23% affordable, utilizing modular construction, to build quicker and more cost-efficiently in a dense urban environment, and to build out ground-floor community and retail spaces to serve as a retail anchor for the new development.

Alicia is former General Counsel and Chief of Development for New Economics for Women (NEW), a national nonprofit economic development organization based in Los Angeles.  For the past ten (10) years, Alicia led all affordable housing and economic development projects, both acquisition/rehabilitation and new construction deals. She directed all acquisitions, entitlements, design and predevelopment efforts. She works to expand NEW’s portfolio of apartment units, single-family homes, charter schools, primary healthcare and commercial property spaces, and she advises on real estate, asset management, and financing vehicles for the organization to support its sustainability and growth.

Alicia spearheads the organization’s participation in the national Growing Diverse Housing Developers Program, a $30M investment from Wells Fargo over the next 6 years in 32 high-performing affordable housing developers across the country. She continues to serve as a primary point of contact for the nonprofit’s award of grant monies and technical assistance to rebuild its Real Estate Development Department, expand its partnership, borrowing and capitalization capacity for significant real estate development pipeline production through 2028.

As Chief of Development for NEW, Alicia further led the Fund Development Department for the organization, executing NEW’s Strategic Plan to position the organization for major gifts and grant contracting. As General Counsel, she provided advice and counsel to NEW’s Board of Directors and Executive Team, supervising all legal matters for the organization, and helped to establish a number of spin-off organizations designed to add a high-performance Community Development Financial Institution for low-income and BIPOC-lending resources dedicated to performance in and about the City of Los Angeles.

Alicia earned her Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern University School of Law, and her Bachelor’s degree in American Studies with an emphasis on Public Policy and City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.  Alicia was named 2015 Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year from the Real Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. She is a 2014 Fellow of the National Association of Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB) and a 2005 Hagwell Scholar Award winner for her work in transportation law. Her law review article, “Los Angeles Missed the Bus: Lessons in Transportation Equity,” was published in the Journal of Transportation Law and Policy in 2006.

She is a California licensed attorney and broker, and owns and operates both Matricardi Law, A Professional Law Corporation, and Carthay Group, a commercial real estate brokerage and development firm. Alicia also serves as general counsel to the Latina Golfers Association of Southern California.

Alicia is 2022-2023 President of the Southwestern University School of Law Alumni Board of Directors. Alicia is Trustee of Southwestern Law School, and a member of the Board of Directors for the nonprofit California Women’s Law Center.

She is General Counsel to the Latina Golfers Association, and is an avid golfer and outdoor enthusiast of all of Los Angeles County’s outdoor activities and open-air concert venues.