Today, tons of surplus furniture enters our local landfills.

Rose Tourjé – Founder

ANEW began when founder Rose Tourjé started to challenge industry practice in asset liquidation and disposal to landfills. She introduced Social Sustainability™ and ANEW was founded to educate the A&D industry on surplus liquidation alternatives, bettering communities and the environment.

Rose Tourjé’s resume of clients and employment includes: EPR, Hughes Corporate Headquarters, ARCO, ISD, IA, Sysco Food Services, Los Angeles Children’s Hospital, Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, O’Melveny & Meyers, DMJM, and the Los Angeles Community College District.

ANEW encourages architects and designers to explore buyback options, employee sales, and other means with their clients first, to help recover value on their surplus. With over 25 years of homegrown experience, ANEW is able to leverage industry experts and keep overhead to a minimum. We are a trusted resource for major furniture manufacturers, commercial dealerships, and leading firms and industry affiliates in the architecture and design community.

Lila Tsuda Grant – Vice President,
Strategic Management

Lila brings a wealth of experience to ANEW with her distinguished career spanning 25 years in interior architecture specializing in the corporate commercial, healthcare and entertainment industries. She is a certified interior designer in the State of California and a member of IIDA. Lila has worked with the firms HKS Architects, Gensler, HOK, and Bauer and Wiley. As managing director of interior architecture for the Los Angeles office of HKS she was responsible for the consistent delivery of quality design services to the client. Lila has earned the respect of clients and peers, who attribute her success to her ability to really listen, understand and manage expectations.

“It’s my time to be doing what’s right with what’s left. I resolve to exercise positive inertia daily toward contributing to our society, our community and a sustainable environment. ANEW is here to serve the underprivileged and the communities that serve them.”

Lila’s resume of interior architecture clients includes Walt Disney, Warner Bros., E! Networks, Kaiser Permanente, White Memorial, DaVita, CB Richard Ellis, Toyota Motor Sales and Countrywide Financial.

Shula Udoff – CorporateSecretary

Shula Udoff was born in England and emigrated to the US when she married the American playwright Yale Udoff.

London – Shula’s career began when she joined the Scientific Civil Service and predicted radio frequencies for the Ministry of Defence. She then moved on to performance work on military aeroplanes for the Ministry of Technology. During this time she was lucky enough to be taken flying in various British fighter jets and helicopters, the pilots of which were stationed at airfields which used the charts that Shula helped to create for the Ministry of Technology. She then joined Boeing International and was the London administrative representative for Boeing at one of the Paris Air Shows. She subsequently worked for Westinghouse Broadcasting’s Foreign News Bureau in London, which was the collecting point for international radio news, from where it was relayed to the US.

Los Angeles – Upon moving to Los Angeles, Shula became interested in the Entertainment industry. She worked in Hollywood for various senior studio executives and became Senior Reader at CBS Television. She also worked at Warner Bros. for several years for a major film and television producer.

She met Rose Tourjé at Warner Bros. when they worked together in the Real Estate department, and has been teamed with her since that time. When Rose started ANEW, Shula became an enthusiastic member of the ANEW team.

Shula is a founder member of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) and a member of Sisters in Crime.

ANEW Foundation Nonprofit Status

ANEW is a nonprofit, 501 (c)(3) organization.

No Landfill Policy

ANEW has a “say no to landfill" policy and approaches each project as if landfill is not an option.

Senior Advisors and Board of Directors

Bruce Berton
Officer/Director, International Business Consulting for Stonefield Josephson, Inc. CPA’s and Business Advisors

Kathleen Horan
Executive Director for FONA (Friends of the National Arboretum), Washington D.C.

Guido Laudisa
Creative Director and Founder for Ethos Factory

Harriet Morgan Montano
Senior Architectural and Design Resource Professional

Beatriz “Bea” Olvera Stotzer
Board President for NEW (New Economics for Women)

Dave Tourjé
Executive Director and Founder for The Chouinard Foundation

Philip J. Wolman, Esq.
Law Offices of Buchalter, Nemer, a professional coporation