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Housing Director, Colorado Department of Local Affairs
1313 Sherman Street, Suite 521
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: (303) 864-7818
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tax Credit and HOME Program Director
Massachusetts – Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 300
Boston, Massachusetts 02114
Phone: (617) 573-1318
E-Mail: [email protected]
Director, LCDBG, LGAP, CWEF Programs
State of Louisiana, Division of Administration, Office of Community Development
1201 N Third Street, Suite 7-270
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70764
Phone: (225) 342-7412
E-Mail: [email protected]
Director, Community Programs
Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development
7800 Hawkins Road
Lanham, Maryland 20706
Phone: (301) 429-7519
E-Mail: [email protected]
Director, Office of Community Development, Maine Department of Economic & Community Development
59 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04333-0059
Phone: (207) 624-9817
E-Mail: [email protected]
Federal Programs Branch Chief, California Department of Housing and Community Development
2020 West El Camino Avenue
Sacramento, California 94252-2050
Phone: (916) 223-9004
E-Mail: [email protected]
Director of Community Infrastructure
Community and Rural Development
Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development
312 Rosa L Parks Ave., 27th Floor
Nashville, Tennessee 37243
Phone: (615) 354-3591
E-Mail: [email protected]
Division Director, Community Finance Division
Georgia Department of Community Affairs
60 Executive Park South, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
Phone: (404) 679-0604
Email: [email protected]
Assistant Director
Utah Workforce Services, Housing and Community Development, Office of Homeless Services
140 E. 300 S.
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Phone: (801) 859-4805
E-Mail: [email protected]
Senior Deputy Director
Texas General Land Office
1700 North Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas 78701-1495
Phone: (512) 463-5001
E-Mail: heather.lagrone.glo@
recovery.texas.gov
Commissioner
Connecticut Department of Housing
505 Hudson Street
Hartford, Connecticut 06106-7106
Phone: 860.270.8037
E-Mail: [email protected]
Executive Director
New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority
14 Dixon Avenue
Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Phone: (603) 717-9118
E-Mail: [email protected]
Director, Community Development Division
Kansas Department of Commerce
1000 S.W. Jackson Street, Ste. 100
Topeka, KS 66616
Phone: (785) 213-7056
E-Mail: [email protected]
Director for CDBG Programs
Texas Department of Agriculture, Office of Rural Affairs
P.O. Box 12847
Austin, Texas 78711
Phone: 512.463.6612
E-Mail: [email protected]
Grants Administrator III
State of Alaska, Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
455 3rd Avenue, Suite 140
Fairbanks, Alaska 99701
Phone: 907.451.2721
Fax: 601.359.3108
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tess Hembree is the Executive Director and has overall management responsibility for the operation of the organization, to include fiscal, staffing and operational. She has responsibility for membership services, internal management, external representation, including advocacy on a host of programmatic and regulatory issues of importance to the COSCDA members, policy development and ethics. Tess is the primary liaison to the COSCDA Board of Directors, the governing body of the organization.
Ms. Hembree comes to COSCDA from the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO), where her decade-long leadership on Congressional affairs and grassroots advocacy resulted in consistent advances and policy victories in affordable housing for members representing thousands of local housing agencies nationwide. She brings a total of nearly 15 years of experience developing and implementing strategies to produce tangible results in appropriations, regulatory efforts, and grassroots advocacy. Hembree has an Executive Masters in Public Administration from the University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy and Governance.
Jenna Hampton leads COSCDA’s government relations efforts as Director of Advocacy and Federal Programs. Representing COSCDA’s four mission areas of community development, housing, homelessness, and disaster recovery, she engages national stakeholders to ensure federal resources and policies adequately respond to state and local needs. Jenna has past experience advocating at the federal level for public housing, housing choice vouchers, resident services, and community development programs. She holds a Master of Social Work and a Master of Social Policy dual degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
Ed Geiger serves as the Conference Training Coordinator who manages the planning, organizing, and implementing of COSCDA’s annual trainings, specifically the Program Managers Meeting in late winter and the Annual Training Conference in the fall. He previously administered most of the community development and housing programs within the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). After nearly 33 years with Pennsylvania state government, Ed started Edge Strategic Consulting, which provides training, research, technical assistance, and strategic planning for housing and community development clients.
Community Development
Chair: Suzanne Barnard (TX)
Co-Chair: Dennis Porter (ID)
Co- Chair: Crystal Loffler (NY)
Co-Chair: Wendy Bell (IL)
Disaster Recovery
Chair: Heather Lagrone (TX)
Co-Chair: Jenny Cho (CA)
Co-Chair: Jenny Mason (NE)
Co-Chair: Sam Viavattine (NJ)
Housing
Chair: Rebecca Frawley Wachtel (MA)
Co-Chair: Julia Zaffarano (CO)
Co-Chair: Barbara Richards (OH)
Co-Chair: Curtis Stauffer (KY)
Homelessness
Chair: Janice Waddell (CA)
Co-Chair: Ara Mendoza (VA)
Co-Chair: Whitney Whitaker (CO)
Co-Chair: Steve DiLella (CT)
Member Services
Chair: Kimberly Carter (GA)
Co-Chair: Fumi Schaadt (OR)
Co-Chair: Kayla Savage (KS)
Co-Chair: Brianne Hasty (ME)
Nominations and Elections Committee
Chair: Kent Archer (TN)
Co-Chair: Cindy Stone (MD)
Co-Chair: Jason Bradley (CA)
Training and Professional Development Subcommittee
Chair: Seila Mosquera-Bruno (CT)
Co-Chair: Donna Enrico (PA)
Co-Chair: Sandra Gunner (LA)
Co-Chair: Rikki Roehrich (ND)
Technology Subcommittee
Deborah Johnson (ME)
Kent Archer (TN)
Jennifer Domenici (UT)
Awards Review Subcommittee
Chair-Traci Watts (LA)
Suzanne Barnard (TX)
Rebecca Frawley Wachtel (MA)
Heather Lagrone (TX)
Janice Waddell (CA)
Past Presidents Advisory Board
Chair: Steve Hardin (MS)
Catherine Racer (MA)
Steve Charleston (NE)
Guiding Committee Appointment Principles:
1. No officers as committee chairs
2. No state has two chairs
3. Generally, seek co-chairs from different states than board members
4. Maximize leadership opportunities for chairs and co-chairs
5. Maximize regional diversity
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Washington, D.C. 20001
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