Richard Newman

Richard Newman is a partner at ArentFox Schiff and handles real estate, finance, and tax matters for numerous cultural institutions, public policy groups, quasi-governmental entities, and other nonprofit organizations. He has extensive experience in both real estate and municipal and public finance and tax and has represented numerous public and private, for-profit and not-for-profit developers and owners of all classes of real estate, as well as lenders, credit enhancers, underwriters, trustees, and governmental entities.

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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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