From community vision to capital ready.

Architect by training. Community developer by calling.

Two decades of practice across municipal government, philanthropy, and land banking, spanning acquisition, disposition, capital stacking, environmental risk, and community engagement. I serve as President and CEO of the Houston Land Bank, the youngest person in the country to lead one.

The organization I lead is itself a coalition: fifteen interconnected programs where builders, trainers, public agencies, and capital partners operate as one system. Entry level builders connect to master builders, training connects to technical assistance, technical assistance connects to capital. I run the connections between them every day.

I also work inside the field's national networks, including board service with the Center for Community Progress, the steering committee of the National Brownfields Coalition, and faith based land work. I founded Connecting Dots and Strategies to bring that operating knowledge to partners.

The work serves organizations that sit one step removed from community as readily as those standing directly in it: intermediaries, funders, coalitions, and networks whose members carry the projects. I meet each one where the decision actually gets made.

$100M+

in land assets stewarded

$30M

deployed across 600 projects reaching 20,000 residents

$5.5M

in federal Brownfields funding, largest award in EPA Region 6

Invited testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce on brownfield redevelopment, 2025.

I have sat in the boardroom and stood on the vacant lot, and I speak both languages. You get a decision you can fund and defend.

The distance between vision and financing.

Belonging is a design decision. It gets made on a parcel.

Networks are asking how community development builds belonging in from the start instead of counting units after the fact. Every belonging outcome I have seen resolves on a specific piece of land: who stays, who owns, and whose name the place keeps. That is where my work sits.

The three outcomes share one parcel and one decision. A readiness score, a capital map, and a fundable decision are how belonging gets built instead of described.

For networks and coalitions. One bench, one front door, one picture of the work.

Several partners deliver technical assistance, a few also raise money, and members choose by who they happen to know. Consolidation makes the whole bench legible and routes each request to the hands built for it. The function gets pooled. The identity stays with each member.

I run this model in my own work every day, an ecosystem where training, technical assistance, and capital connect, and where handing off is a feature of the work. Sometimes I do the work. Sometimes I hand over the plan. Both are the job.

What people bring me.

Different starting points. Same front door.

Whatever you walk in with, the path is the same: a conversation, a scoped first step, and the work. 

Technical assistance that starts where the report ends.

Named offerings: The Investment Map, the Funding Navigator, the Navigating Change series, the Bench Inventory and Network Working Session for networks, executive advisory, and custom builds when the problem fits nothing on the list.