Associate Project Manager, Alta Housing

Anna is an Associate Project Manager at Alta Housing, formerly known as Palo Alto Housing. In her role, Anna helps manage ground-up housing developments from acquisition to lease-up in Mountain View alongside Alta’s Project Managers. She is passionate about making housing accessible and affordable in Silicon Valley in order to support essential workers such as nurses, teachers, and grocery workers that are often priced out of their communities. Anna holds a B.S. in Architectural Design and M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Stanford University and was raised in Dallas, Texas.

Assistant Project Manager, Chinatown Community Development Corporation

Christina Mirani is originally from a small, rural community in Maryland and relocated to the Bay Area in 2010. Since moving from the east coast, Christina received her BA in Urban Studies and Planning at San Francisco State. Her interests in affordable housing further developed out of her internships at the Eviction Defense Collaborative and Association for Bay Area Governments, which lead her to start at Chinatown CDC in 2018.  Christina enjoys learning new recipes to cook, exploring and taking photos with her film cameras, and making ceramics on the pottery wheel. 

Assistant Project Manager, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation

Daniel Dang was born and raised in Southeast San Diego. His parents fled Vietnam in the 1970's and came to America. Because of their sacrifices, Daniel was able to graduate with Bachelors of Arts in Political Economy and Social Welfare with a minor in City and Regional Planning with a concentration in Urban Development and Urban Health from UC Berkeley. Daniel joined EBALDC in May 2018. During his time at EBALDC, Daniel has worked on over 12+ new construction and rehab developments across the department ranging from Pre-Development to Project Close Out. As an Assistant Project Manager, Daniel currently supports the Housing Acquisition Fund (HAF), a 101 unit new construction modular development in West Oakland, and a 144 Unit Supportive Housing Rehab in Uptown Oakland. In Daniel's free time, he enjoys running half marathons, riding his fixie bike, cooking Vietnamese food, and performing spoken word.

Director of Housing Development and Policy, Young Community Developers

Divali's primary role is to oversee all aspects of YCD’s affordable housing development, anti-displacement policy and advocacy work throughout San Francisco with a focus on District 10 and 11. Ms. Ramkalawan also interfaces with the local community, community based organizations and local government partners to maintain a holistic lens which informs each aspect of her work. Her personal/professional background and experience provide a very unique perspective and insight that pushes forward an equity agenda through the creation of housing and development policy. Before joining YCD, Divali worked for the County of San Mateo Department of Housing as a Housing Specialist.  Her work consisted of developing policy, programming, and oversight of funds allocated for affordable housing projects and community development programs. 

She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and has a Master’s of City and Regional Planning from the University of California Berkeley.  

Project Manager, The Unity Council 

Echo Bergquist is a Project Manager on the Real Estate team at The Unity Council (TUC), a social equity development corporation based in East Oakland. She is project lead in the development of affordable housing and community-serving commercial space. Before joining TUC, Echo was a policy researcher at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation in Berkeley, where among other projects she worked on a longitudinal analysis of public housing redevelopment on resident economic well-being. She has also worked in tax credit compliance for affordable housing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. Echo holds a master’s degree in City Planning from UC Berkeley, as well as certificates in Real Estate Finance from UC Berkeley and Boston University. Once an avid rock climber, ultimate frisbee player and community-chorus member, she now shelters in place in Oakland with her husband and small daughter, who has the distinction of being born during a global pandemic. 

Project Manager, Charities Housing

Hai is a community builder who leverages his architectural background to work with Charities Housing in San Jose as a project manager focusing on the mission of building affordable housing for very low-income families, seniors, and formerly/episodical homeless individuals. As a graduate from Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Hai previously lived and worked in New York City and San Francisco for 15 years as an architectural designer, real estate developer, and construction manager who continuously seek to build self-sustaining communities for all. 

Project Manager, First Community Housing

José is  a  passionate  advocate  for  the  construction  of  more permanent  supportive  and  affordable  housing  that  allows  communities  like  his  to  remain cohesive, socioeconomically  diverse,  and  inclusive.  In his  role,  José project manages the development of permanent supportive housing and leads the community engagement strategy for all new permanent supportive housing developments.  He  is  the  first  in  his  family  to attend college  and  has  a  B.S.  in political science and  sociology  from  Santa  Clara  University and an MPP from  the  University  of  Michigan,  Ford  School  of  Public Policy.  A lifelong resident of East San  José,  he  has  utilized his organizing  background  to  advance  a citywide  anti-displacement  strategy,  a  citywide immigrant legal  defense  strategy,  and  an  update  to  the  rent  control  ordinance  in  his  role  in the  San José  Mayor’s  Office.

Project Coordinator, Petaluma Ecumenical Properties (DBA PEP Housing)

Krista joined PEP’s development team in the spring of 2019. She brings over 25 years of experience in social services, professional organizing, event planning, and property management including Board service with several non-profits for over 10 years. She has found her calling at PEP Housing as the Project Coordinator and is proud to be serving the growing population of seniors through the development of low-income housing. 

Project Manager, MidPen Housing Corporation 

Lisa Howlett joined MidPen as Associate Project Manager in April 2018 to support new construction projects in Oakland and San Francisco. Since then she has been promoted to Project Manager and taken over the development of a 124-unit family building in Oakland, CA. Lisa brings broad experience in the nonprofit sector and affordable housing development. Prior to MidPen, Lisa worked at BRIDGE Housing Corporation, assisting in the occupied rehabilitation of seven Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) developments in San Francisco. Previous to that, Lisa managed events, trainings and fundraising as the Program Manager at the Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH). Lisa earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Hospitality from the University of San Francisco.

Pastor LJ Jennings, President, Bay Area Community Benefit Organization

LJ Jennings has a broad and diverse background in business, community engagement, housing development and ecumenical affairs. Over the past 35 years LJ has owned and operated a successful real estate and mortgage company, developed several affordable housing projects, started several nonprofit organizations. Currently LJ operates a 100-bed transitional housing facility for formerly incarcerated individuals, serves as president of his community development company, leads a consortium of churches in the Bay Area, all while Pastoring a thriving and growing church in Oakland, California, Kingdom Builders Christian Fellowship.

LJ Jennings is the President Pyramid Real Estate & Investments, a full-service real estate company. His experience includes nonprofit housing development, turning vacant and blighted sites into homes for low income and persons with disabilities, mortgage financing and the utilization of tax credits, pooled funds and neighborhood stabilization funds. He currently serves in the following capacities: President of the Bay Area Community Benefit Organization, President of the Sales Division of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Founding Member of the East Oakland Entrepreneurship Forum and President of the Heartland Merchants Association.

He has held numerous local, statewide and national leadership positions in both civic and religious capacities, and is frequently called on by elected officials for input and comments on proposed legislation. He is a valued community voice and is influential in local politics.

Project Manager, Allied Housing, Inc.

With over 15 years of professional experience in architecture, finance, land use economics, and development, Macy has worked extensively with both public and private sectors on many complex economics and development projects. 

Prior to Allied, Macy was Senior Associate at Bridge Housing’s CDFI that focused on acquisition, development, and disposition in the West Coast, and led the firm’s Legislative Policy Group. Prior to that, she was a Senior Economist at AECOM Economics and Applied Development Economics, where she developed economic development strategies for various Cities in the Bay Area, and completed fiscal and economic impact analyses, labor force analyses, Housing Elements, General Plan and Specific Plan, financial evaluation, and Long-Range City and County-wide economic policies. She also previously served as Executive Vice President for CGF in Greater Los Angeles, a boutique real estate private equity firm financed mixed-use housing, creative office, and hotel development, and managed all firm and project activities. She began her career in architecture at Holabird and Root in Chicago, and had worked on large-scale institutional and commercial projects. 

Macy serves on City of Richmond's Design Review board, the ULI Program Steering Committee and Sustainability Committee, was a past Vice Chair of the National Historic Trust/ULI Historic Preservation Summit, and was selected as Urban Land Institute "Who's Next under 35" national award recipient in 2013. 

Project Manager, Self-Help Enterprises

Miguel works as a project manager at Self-Help Enterprises, a non-profit affordable housing developer in the Central Valley. Part of his roles and responsibilities at Self-Help are to identify locations for future projects, acquisition and due diligence, working with local partners to put together funding applications, supervising construction, and completing necessary monitoring related to federal, state, or local funds used on the project. He is attracted to the broadness of housing policy, which includes the building sciences, public policy, community engagement, architecture, and finance.  Miguel graduated from UCLA with a degree in International Development. 

Assistant Project Manager, Mission Economic Development Agency

Monica joined Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) in 2017 where she started her work in affordable housing working in asset management assisting with MEDA’s San Francisco Small Site Program portfolio. She then joined the project management team assisting on a range of projects from acquisitions, new constructions and rehabs. She has helped MEDA in growing their portfolio of over 1,000 preserved/produced affordable units in San Francisco. Monica received her Bachelor of Science of Mathematics from Spelman College. Monica was born and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District and loves being able to work and better the community that helped raise her.

Assistant Project Manager, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation

Nicole was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and is 27 years old. She comes from an Air Force family and has lived in Germany and Florida. Nicole has her Master’s degree in Urban Planning from San Jose State University. She was a part of the 2018-2019 BAHIP Cohort and she is currently an Assistant Project Manager at Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC).

Associate Project Manager, Satellite Affordable Housing Associates

Ngan Mai is an Associate Project Manager at Satellite Affordable Housing Associates (SAHA). Ngan joined SAHA in June 2018 as part of the inaugural class of the Bay Area Housing Internship Program launched by NPH, and was promoted to her current position in 2020. During her internship at SAHA, Ngan was also pursuing her undergraduate degree in Urban Studies at UC Berkeley, and previously completed an Associates’ degree in Architecture at Chabot College. 

Ngan’s first introduction to housing issues began at a Lit Crawl San Francisco event in 2016, where many Bay Area evicted residents and activists such as Erin McElroy joined together and shared their experience. Ngan’s interest in affordable housing continued to grow as she was taking city-planning classes from UC Berkeley, and learning more about racial segregation and housing issues that have been going on in the Bay Area and the US as a whole. By being part of LISC’s 2020-2021 Housing Development Training Institute, Ngan hopes to improve and further her affordable housing development skills and provide more affordable housing to those in need.

Assistant Project Manager, Mercy Housing California

Nyla is an Assistant Project Manager at Mercy Housing California’s San Francisco office. Nyla was born and raised in Oakland, California which fueled her passion to create systemic changes within society. She earned her degree in Sociology with a minor in Ethnic Studies at California State University, East Bay. In her last year of college, she participated in NPH’s first BAHIP (Bay Area Housing Internship Program) cohort, which sparked her interest in the Affordable Housing industry. Through this experience, she interned at The Housing Authority of the City of Alameda as a Housing and Community Development intern and began her career in Affordable Housing.

Project Manager, Community Housing Partnership 

As Community Housing Partnership’s Real Estate Development Project Manager, Sean manages the day to day development responsibilities for two permanent supportive housing projects: Mission Bay South Block 9, which is 141 units of new construction, and the Senator, which is an 89 unit rehabilitation.

Project Development Specialist, Community Housing Improvement Program

Shelly Ingram, Property Development Specialist joined CHIP in 2019. She has more than five years’ experience as a land use planner in northern and southern California and two years’ experience as a federal grants planner. Shelly is responsible for reviewing proposals, analyzing market data, coordinating projects, and preparing necessary funding applications. She has a BS from Eastern Oregon University and a Master’s in Agricultural Education and Communication from Kansas State University.

Assistant Project Manager, Community Housing Development Corporation North Richmond

Tim Moreau currently works as an assistant project manager for Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond (CHDC). Tim is currently the lead on 50-unit senior housing project in Oakland CA and assisting on a 115 unit & 30-unit tax credit resyndications in North Richmond. Before joining CHDC he worked for Dignity Housing West, Inc., based in Oakland CA as an assistant & project manager. During that time, he completed the James Lee Court 26-unit multifamily rehab and Howie Harp Plaza 20-unit rehab both located in Oakland. Mr. Moreau holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from California State University East Bay. Additionally, he has completed numerous NeighborWorks training institute classes.

Project Developer, Eden Housing

Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Weijia has spent the past 12 years studying and working in as an Architect and Affordable Housing Developer in the United States, Weijia joined the Eden Housing Development team as a Project Developer in 2018. She is currently the project manager for Light Tree Apartments, a 185-unit family development in East Palo Alto, and Legacy Court, a 43-unit family and veteran’s affordable housing project located in North Richmond. Prior to joining Eden, Weijia received her Master of Science in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. During her time at MIT, she worked at Investbridge Capital, a private equity firm focused on investing in residential and hospitality projects in the US and Middle East. Prior to her career in affordable housing, Weijia worked as an Architect at SHoP Architects in New York. As an Associate she oversaw the design and construction of the East River Waterfront Esplanade, a 14,000,000sf public park and waterfront rehabilitation project funded by the New York Economic Development Corporation. In addition, she has also contributed to the design and construction of over 740 mixed-income units in large scale residential developments in New York and Boston. Weijia is a Registered Architect in the state of New York and a LEED accredited professional