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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]
Dianne E. Taylor 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. Dianne is the primary liaison to the COSCDA Board of Directors, the governing body of the organization.
Ms. Taylor has extensive experience in community development and legislative activities, Prior to joining COSCDA; Dianne served as director for the National Community Development Association (NCDA). She worked for five years in planning and community development for the town of Warrenton, VA, as well as serving as housing development specialist in Pittsburgh, PA. She holds a M.S. in community economic development from New Hampshire College and a B.A. in urban planning/community organizing from the University of Pittsburgh.
Josh Shumaker leads COSCDA’s government relations as Director of Advocacy and Federal Programs. Representing COSCDA’s four mission areas of community development, housing, homelessness, and disaster recovery, he engages national stakeholders to ensure federal resources and policies adequately respond to state and local needs. Prior to joining COSCDA, Josh served in a similar role with the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO). He also has experience in working with local governments on community and infrastructure development initiatives in his home state of Tennessee. Josh holds degrees from Wofford College and the University of Memphis.
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: Josh Hanford (VT)
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: Tricia Davis (UT)
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: Cindy Stone (MD)
Co-Chair: Kent Archer (TN)
Co-Chair: Jason Bradley (CA)
Training and Professional Development Subcommittee
Chair: Jean Noble (AR)
Co-Chair: Donna Enrico (PA)
Co-Chair: Sandra Gunner (LA)
Co-Chair: Seila Mosquera-Bruno (CT)
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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