Board of Directors
NH&RA is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors which is elected annually by its membership at the organization’s annual meeting. The Executive Committee is comprised of the organization’s officers is elected annually by the Board of Directors. Professional staff provide for the day-to-day operations of the association and report to the Board of Directors and Executive Committee.
Executive Leadership
Chair
- Milton Pratt, Jr., The Michaels Organization, Camden, NJ
Vice-Chairs
- Maria Barry, Bank of America, Providence, RI
- Timothy I Henkel, Pennrose, LLC, Philadelphia, PA
Treasurer
- Stephanie Wiggins, PGIM Real Estate, Arlington, VA
Secretary
- Will Eckstein, Harmony Housing Affordable Development Inc., Raleigh, NC
General Counsel
- Ken Lore, Katten, Washington, DC
Chair Emeritus
- David M. Abromowitz, Goulston & Storrs P.C., Boston, MA
- Ben Applegate, Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen P.C., Chicago, IL
- Geoffrey C. Brown, USA Properties Fund, Inc., Roseville, CA
- Lawrence H. Curtis, WinnDevelopment, Boston, MA
- Robert U. Fein, Red Stone Equity Partners, Naples, FL
- Bernie Husser, BPH Investment Company LLC, Gloucester, MA
- Debra F. Koehler, Sage Partners, LLC, Tampa, FL
- John F. Mackey, Trinity Financial Inc., Naples, FL
- William Stetson, The Carabetta Companies, Meriden, CT
- Ronne Lynn Thielen, R4 Capital LLC, Newport Beach, CA
Board of Directors- Bennett Applegate, Jr., Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen P.C., Chicago, IL
- Jeanine Armitstead, Bank of America, Boston, MA
- Chris Barnes, Balsam Green
- Brent Lee Barringer, Monarch Private Capital
- Kenan Bigby, Trinity Financial Inc., Boston, MA
- Kimberly Black King, Volunteers of America National Services, Alexandria, VA
- Dana S. Boole, CAHEC, Raleigh, NC
- Michael Boyle, Greystone Real Estate Capital, New York, NY
- Holly Bray, NEWMARK, Bethesda, MD
- Eli Miles Bronfman, Lincoln Avenue Communities, LLC, New York, NY
- Rodger L. Brown, Jr., Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc., Boston, MA
- Corenia Burlingame, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Washington, DC
- Laura E. Burns, Eagle Point Enterprises LLC, South Portland, ME
- Orlando J. Cabrera, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Washington, DC
- Kristen Cassetta, Holland & Knight LLP, Boston, MA
- Rob Charest, Boston Financial, Boston, MA
- Josh Cohen, Beacon Communities, Boston, MA
- Suzie Cope, Lument, Eagle, CO
- Dan Duda, Churchill Stateside Group LLC, Clearwater, FL
- Sharon Dworkin Bell, Council of Large Affordable Housing Owners, Washington, DC
- Eleanor M. C. Fanning, Texas Inter-Faith Housing, Houston, TX
- Ted Fellman, Raymond James, Nashville, TN
- Hollis Fitch, Fitch Irick Corporation, Charlotte, NC
- Wendell C. Franklin, Franklin Group, Virginia Beach, VA
- Michael J. Gaber, PNC Real Estate - Tax Credit Solutions, Huntington Beach, CA
- John W. Gahan III, Sullivan & Worcester LLP, Boston, MA
- Jerome L. Garciano, Boston, MA
- Sarah Garland, CBRE Affordable Housing, Los Angeles, CA
- Jim Gillespie, Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC, New York, NY
- John Gilmore IV, Walker & Dunlop, LLC, New York, NY
- David Godschalk, Law Office of David Godschalk, Bethesda, MD
- Joshua Greenblatt, Vesta / Choice Housing Investments, Weatogue, CT
- Chris Hite, Sugar Creek Capital, Saint Louis, MO
- Alysse Hollis, Coats Rose, Cincinnati, OH
- Rhett J. Holmes, IDP Properties, Valdosta, GA
- Gary Jennison, Jr., Corcoran Jennison Companies, Dorchester, MA
- Mark P. Keener, Gallagher Evelius & Jones LLP, Baltimore, MD
- Bryan Keller, RubinBrown LLP, Las Vegas, NV
- Brooke Shorett Kim, Vitus, Seattle, WA
- Jeffrey Kittle, Kittle Property Group, Inc., Indianapolis, IN
- Lopa Kolluri, M&T Bank Corporation, Washington, DC
- Barry Krinsky, Citi Community Capital, Boca Raton, FL
- Allison Kunis, Alpha Verde Holdings, LLC, New York, NY
- Timothy Leonhard, Berkadia, Dallas, TX
- Efrem Levy, Reno & Cavanaugh PLLC, Washington, DC
- Joseph Lynch, Nixon Peabody LLP, New York, NY
- Ravi Malhotra, International Ctr for Appropriate & Sustainable Technology, Lakewood, CO
- Mark S. McDaniel, Cinnaire, Lansing, MI
- Brett Meringoff, Orca, McLean, VA
- Darrick Metz, WNC & Associates, Inc., Saint Paul, MN
- Arjun Nagarkatti, AMCAL Multi-Housing Inc., Agoura Hills, CA
- Adhi Nagraj, McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc., Saint Louis, MO
- Kent Neumann, Esq., Tiber Hudson LLC, Washington, DC
- Stephen M. Nolan, Nolan Sheehan Patten LLP, Boston, MA
- R. Wade Norris, Norris George & Ostrow PLLC, Great Falls, VA
- Cynthia Langelier Paine, Blank Rome LLP, Washington, DC
- Richelle Patton, Collaborative Housing Solutions, Decatur, GA
- Marshall E. Phillips, CohnReznick LLP, Charlotte, NC
- Josh Plattner, Belveron Real Estate Partners, San Francisco, CA
- Philip Porter, Enterprise Community Investment, Inc., Columbia, MD
- Paula Prahl, Dominium Development & Acquisition, LLC, Plymouth, MN
- Basil P. Rallis, Bayside Communities, Walnut Creek, CA
- Albert Rex, Ryan LLC, Boston, MA
- Charles A. Rhuda III, Novogradac & Company LLP, Boston, MA
- Caleb Roope, Pacific West Communities, Inc., Eagle, ID
- Daniel Rosen, Klein Hornig LLP, Boston, MA
- John B. Rucker III, Stifel, Montgomery, AL
- Vasilios Salamandrakis, Affordable Housing Access, Newport Beach, CA
- Mark Schuster, Wingate Companies, Newton, MA
- Jay R. Segel, R4 Capital LLC, Boston, MA
- Bryan Shumway, Eagle Point Enterprises LLC, Portland, ME
- Victor Sostar, Regions Affordable Housing, Great Neck, NY
- James Spound, R4 Capital Funding, New York, NY
- Gary Stenson, MetroPlains Management LLC, Saint Paul, MN
- Darren Swanson, Red Stone Equity Partners, Charlotte, NC
- Brian Swanton, Gorman & Company, LLC, Oregon, WI
- Pete TenEyck, PGIM Real Estate, Charlotte, NC
- Craig S. Wagner, RBC Community Investments, Charlotte, NC
- George Weidenfeller, Telesis Corporation, Washington, DC
- Ira Weinstein, CohnReznick LLP, Baltimore, MD
- Evan Williams, CFA, NEWMARK, New York, NY
- Sharon Wilson Géno, National Multifamily Housing Council, Washington, DC
- Jeffrey J. Woda, Woda Cooper Companies, Inc., Columbus, OH
- Kyle Wolff, Stratford Capital Group, Peabody, MA
- Roger Yorkshaitis, Gatehouse Group, Inc., Mansfield, MA