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Chair: Anne Lindgren has worked in the field of low- and moderate-income housing finance and development for nearly 30 years. She began her career as a housing consultant to non-profit community groups in New York, served as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Agency Commissioner in the Carter Administration, and later worked as a mortgage banker in Washington and New York. She is currently vice president of the Michaels Development Company, a firm that has developed and now manages some 20,000 units of affordable housing. Ms. Lindgren is also president of the Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center and serves on the executive committee of Settlement Housing Fund and The National Conference. She is a graduate of Vassar College and Brown University.
President: T. Eric Galloway has been involved in the field of low-income and moderate-income housing finance and development for several years. He began his career as a judicial clerk for the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit. Following his clerkship, he worked as an attorney for Davis Polk & Wardwell, specializing in banking and corporate finance. He later joined Settlement Housing Fund, a non-profit developer of affordable housing, as counsel and housing development associate, specializing in finance and development of housing requiring the provision of supportive services on site. Mr. Galloway is founding President of The Lantern Group, a citywide not-for-profit developer of affordable housing for various low-income populations. He is also President of Lantern Management Group, a realty and fiscal services company, and managing member of Galvan Group, a company specializing in preservation of historic buildings and single family homes in the City of Hudson, New York. He is a graduate of Holy Cross College, Brown University, and Harvard Law School.
Executive Director: Jessica Katz has been the Director of Housing Development for the Special Needs Housing Division at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) for past 6 years. At HPD, she was responsible for an annual Supportive Housing pipeline worth over $100 million, comprising more than 500 units per year. She was also responsible for policy issues around senior and supportive housing, and created a new program that provides gap financing for federally-funded senior housing HUD 202 projects. Prior to HPD, Ms. Katz worked in housing development at CASCAP, Inc, a Cambridge, MA -based mental health agency, where she was also an live-in property manager in a supportive housing building. Ms. Katz holds a Master's degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. from McGill University.
Secretary/Treasurer: Craig Harwood has been involved in development of commercial, retail, and residential property for the past fourteen years. He was vice president at Square Industries for ten years, a major commercial parking and development corporation doing business throughout the northeast region. As vice president of Square Industries, he was responsible for leasing, marketing, zoning, and operating activities associated with many large projects. He is currently principal in several partnerships pursuing residential development in New York City. He is a member of New York Youth at Risk and the Threshold Foundation, and is involved in many other community service initiatives. He is a graduate of Boston University.
Board Member: Nathaniel Wice is a magazine writer and online entrepreneur. In 1995, he co-authored alt.culture, a reference encyclopedia of contemporary popular culture. After publishing the work in book form with HarperCollins (1996), Mr. Wice developed a web site and subsequently licensed it in an expanding, updated form to Time-Warner’s Pathfinder service (http://www.altculture.com). He also contributes to a range of publications, including Time magazine and the Village Voice, and writes monthly columns for Yahoo Internet Life and the Japanese edition of Esquire. In 1992, he was the recipient of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Journalism for writing while on staff at Spin magazine. Mr. Wice is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Board Member: Melinda Mlinac has many years of experience in low-income housing with client placement, advocacy and development. As a social worker she was resident manager in adolescent group homes (Philadelphia, 1975-1977), and discharge planner for residential and healthcare placement at Temple University Hospital and Albert Einstein Medical Center (Philadelphia, 1970-1981). She served on the Shelter Committee for the Religious Society of Friends (1981-1992), and the Committee to develop Friends in Rosehill, an AIDS residence (1990-1997). Since 1987 she has been with the NYS Court of Appellate Division’s Mental Hygiene Legal Service, serving as Principal Attorney for deinstitutionalization of mental health consumers to less restrictive residential settings and providing legal representation in: eviction, guardianship, forced medical and psychiatric treatment, post-hospital placement and outpatient assisted living. Ms. Mlinac is a graduate of Temple University and the New York Law School and is a member of the Bar in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.