Nicole Kelm

Nicole Kelm is a social impact leader with over 15 years of experience. Her current work leading Deloitte’s Social Impact Investments and Ecosystems Team focuses on equipping key decision makers to accelerate change, strengthening local ecosystems to create healthier communities, and driving health innovation and learning across the US. She is a strategist specialized in public health/healthcare with experience in both the public and private sector in the US and abroad. She worked for organizations such as Deloitte, the US Navy, the Peace Corps, the World Food Program and the World Health Organization. She supports transformation of health systems by leveraging a unique set of experiences – public-private, military-civilian, global-domestic, implementer-strategist – to serve communities that need it most.  

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Members

WHC is governed by an independent board of civic leaders.

Joshua Bernstein

CEO, Bernstein Management Corporation

Kevin Clinton

Board Chair

Chief Program Officer, Federal City Council

Carol Thompson Cole

President + CEO, Youth Invest Partners

Kimberly Driggins

Chief Executive Officer, WHC

Maria S. Gomez

Former President + CEO, Mary’s Center

Kevin Greer

Managing Partner & Chief Administrative Officer, New Profit

Mark Joseph

Founding Director, NP3: Nurturing People. Power. Place.

Nicole Kelm

Senior Director of Strategy and Operations, Deloitte Health Equity Institute

David Martin

Partner, ArentFox Schiff

David Roodberg

CEO, DJR Assoc.

Eshauna Smith

Director of Community Impact, Ballmer Group

Aakash Thakkar

Chief Acquisitions Officer, EYA, LLC

Rob Stewart

Board Emeritus
Chair, JBG SMITH’s Board of Trustees

Founding Board Members

Tamara Copeland

 Former WRAG President

Charlene Drew Jarvis

Former DC Councilmember

John Gardner

Former VP of Buvermo Investments

Cary Hatch

Former Managing Director of Hart Inc.

Deborah Ratner-Salzberg

Partner at Uplands Real Estate Partners

Our Team

Kimberly Driggins

Chief Executive Officer

Monica Cardenas Guzman

Social Impact Coordinator

Destiny Delaware

Social Impact Program Manager

Jackie Keller

Office Manager & Executive Assistant

Shannon Marshall

Social Impact Coordinator

Arianna Martinez

Social Impact Coordinator

Yvette Ross Kane

Director of Real Estate

Kathy Smith

Director of Development

Fusing commercial real estate expertise with a social impact mission.

We disrupt inequities in the housing market with an innovative model that prevents displacement and promotes opportunity and wealth building. 

Preserving housing affordability and promoting economic mobility in the DC-region

The Washington Housing Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your investment helps us expand our work. Your gift is 100% tax-deductible. EIN 83-1866109

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