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Biography
Qualifications
- Powerful personal and professional commitment to increasing the quantity and quality of affordable housing available
- Extensive experience in Community Acceptance Strategy Development and Implementation
- Experience in Community Education
- Familiarity with Housing Element and Consolidated Plan Development processes
- Strong knowledge of State and Federal laws and regulations governing affordable housing development
- In-depth knowledge of all facets of Affordable Housing Finance
- High value placed on teamwork, flexibility, and quality communication at all levels
- Strong analytical, conceptual, planning and organizational skills
- Excellent written and oral presentation skills
Recent Work Experience
10/99-7/00
Loan Officer, Low-Income Housing Fund, Oakland, CA
Responsible for underwriting loans and developing financing products for affordable housing and community facilities. Evaluated loan applications, underwrote loans, provided technical assistance to borrowers, prepared legal documents, and negotiated with other lenders. Worked closely with many non-profit affordable housing and facilities developers and service providers in the Western United States.
8/94-10/99
Project Manager, Mayor's Office of Housing (MOH), San Francisco, CA
Concurrent responsibility for up to 17 housing development projects and three programs. Development-related responsibilities included evaluating requests for City housing development funds, overseeing environmental review processes, working with developers to counteract community opposition to affordable housing development, providing technical assistance to housing developers, preparing legal documents, underwriting loans, and administering local and federal funding programs. Monitored rehabilitation and new construction progress and advised developers on a broad range of development issues. Worked with other staff on data collection for the City's Consolidated Plan. Worked with many San Francisco non-profit affordable housing developers. Represented MOH before the San Francisco Redevelopment and Planning Commissions and the Board of Supervisors, as well as at numerous community meetings. Represented MOH on the Mayor's Welfare Reform Task Force.
9/93-6/94
Research Assistant, Mansbach Associates, San Francisco, CA
Conducted research and drafted reports for commercial real estate appraisal firm operating throughout the Bay Area. Gathered data on all aspects of real estate valuation, including land use and zoning.
6/91-6/93
Law Clerk, Law Offices of Goldfarb and Lipman, San Francisco, CA
Provided legal services to non-profit organizations and public agencies, with an emphasis on low- and moderate- income housing development and economic development in California from inception through operational phase. Work in various related practice areas included land use, housing discrimination and urban redevelopment.
1/90-8/90
Research Assistant, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, CA
Conducted research for Professor John P. Dwyer for his contribution to David L. Kirp's book Our Town : Race, Housing and the Soul of Suburbia, about exclusionary zoning in Mt. Laurel, NJ.
6/90-8/90
Summer Intern, Lawyers Alliance for New York (Formerly Council of New York Law Associates), New York, NY
Conducted research and wrote memoranda on topics including low-income housing cooperatives and permanent affordability strategies.
Memberships & Affiliations
* California Futures Network
* California Housing Consortium
* Greenbelt Alliance
* Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH)
* San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)
Education
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
J.D. June, 1992
Honors & Grants:
Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Housing Law, 1992
Recipient, Homer Mason Scholarship, 1992
Nominee, Francine Diaz Memorial Award, 1992
Recipient, Berkeley Law Foundation Grant, 1990
Activities:
Participant, Street Law Program, Autumn 1991
Faculty Liaison for Boalt Hall Student Association, 1990-1992
Member, Faculty-Student Diversity Committee, 1990
Member, Boalt Hall Women's Association, 1989-1992
Member, Law Students of African Descent, 1989-1992
University of Massachusetts at Boston
B.A. September, 1989
Major in American Studies; Urban Focus
Honors:
Magna cum laude
Distinctions in American Studies
Dean's List
Black Students' Association award for Academic Excellence
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 1982-1983
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