SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS For Opportunity Discovery and Visioning Sessions
Jim Wehrner President, Focused Community Strategies Expertise: Affordable Housing Development, Flourishing Neighborhoods Akilah Watkins-Butler CEO, President, Center for Community Progress Expertise: Affordable Housing, Eliminating Vacant, Abandoned and Dilapidated Housing and Blight Odetta MacLeish-White Former Executive Director, Transformation Alliance Director of Georgia Initiatives Expertise: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Coalition Building Chris Norman Executive Director, Metro Atlanta Land Bank Expertise: Affordable Housing, Land Banks
MaKara Rumley Founder and CEO, Hummingbird Firm Expertise: Environment and Community Engagement
Brittany Collins Founding Director of PAACT: Promise All Atlanta Children Thrive Expertise: Early Childhood Education, Collective Impact Adam Williamson Principal, TSW Expertise: City Planner, Landscape Architect, Planning and Design of Livable Communities Special Note: Native of LaGrange, Graduated from LaGrange High School
Rashidah Lopez Principal, Education First Expertise: Teachers and Education Philanthropy
Angela King Smith Partner, Education Resource
Strategies Expertise:
K-12 Education, Culture, Engagement and Strategy
Jomal Vailes, CFRE Executive Director at STRIVE Atlanta Expertise: Workforce Development
Tolton Pace Strategic Partnerships & Grant Programs, The Home Depot Foundation Former Program Manager, WorkSource Atlanta Expertise: Workforce Development, Community Engagement
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