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NAHRO Faculty
The following individuals currently make-up NAHRO's active faculty. NAHRO faculty
are selected based on their demonstrated expertise in the public housing and
community development fields, program development, and facilitation and training
skills. Individuals interested in applying to be a NAHRO Faculty member should
e-mail nahro@nahro.org.
Joseph Albanese
Mr. Albanese is a veteran NAHRO faculty member with expertise in a wide
variety of housing and community development and management areas. He
has served his community for more than 12 years as a housing commissioner
and was Vice President for Commissioners of the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Council of NAHRO. Mr. Albanese owns his own consulting firm and brings
30 plus years of hands-on experience in addressing a variety of business
and human resource issues. In addition, Mr. Albanese has consulted with
a number of troubled and/or distressed housing agencies and has worked
as an Interim Executive Director. Mr. Albanese is also a certified Lead
Base Paint consultant/trainer and is included in the National Lead Base
Paint Listing.
Dwayne Barrett, Esq.
Dwayne is a partner with Reno & Cavanaugh. He is a tax lawyer who concentrates on affordable housing and community development matters. He has expertise in low income tax credit developments, tax-exempt bond financing, tax increment financing, Gulf Opportunity Zone Tax Credits, new market tax credits, CDBG funds, HOME funds, and mixed finance transactions. He has practiced law in Nashville for fifteen years. Barrett earned his law degree at the University of Tennessee and an LL.M. in taxation at the University of Florida.
Veronica Bukowski, M.S., PHM, CPBA, CPVA
Veronica Bukowski, MS, PHM, CPBA, CPV, began her career with the Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). After leaving HUD, she worked
as Director of Training for eight years at the National Association
of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) in Washington, DC. Ms.
Bukowski researched and designed NAHRO's PHM training and wrote the
original text. In 1981, she and Richard H. Stanton co-founded an organizational
development and performance enhancement practice. Over the years, the
organization has worked closely with NAHRO in the design and development
of professional training programs and conference presentations. For
NAHRO, Ms. Bukowski conducts PHM, Public Housing Occupancy, Eligibility,
Income and Rent Calculation, Earned Income Disallowance (EIR), and Supervisory
and Management Seminars. Additionally, she provides technical assistance
for NAHRO clients.
Damian Colden, P.E.
Mr Colden, P.E. is a professional engineer with more than 13 years of
experience in facilities engineering management. He has experience in
facilities maintenance management, environmental program management,
project management for construction and facilities support contracting,
process automation and systems training. In 1995, Mr. Colden founded
his own firm concentrating on providing integrated engineering management
solutions to modernization and maintenance issues. He presents NAHRO's
Managing Maintenance in Public Housing, Asset Management for Affordable
Housing and Uniform Physical Inspection Seminars and is busy developing
a stand alone Preventative Maintenance curriculum for NAHRO Professional
Development. Additionally, Mr. Colden's services are invaluable as a
team member on NAHRO's Consulting Teams.
Lisa Coleman, PHM
Lisa Coleman, a former housing program director with the Housing Commission of Anne Arundel County, Maryland has 13 years of experience in the housing industry field. She administered the Housing Choice Voucher Program, as well as, Mainstream, Housing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, Rental Allowance Program, Permanent Housing for Homeless Persons with Disabilities and Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership. In addition to Housing Choice Voucher Program Administration, she supervised the Admissions and Occupancy for all programs including Public Housing. Mrs. Coleman is a NAHRO faculty member currently teaching Eligibility, Income and Rent Calculation for Public Housing/Housing Choice Voucher, Public Housing/Housing Choice Voucher Occupancy and Section 8 (HCV) Housing Management, Earned Income Disallowance and Family Self-Sufficiency.
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Ph.D., PHM
Dr. Crewe has more than 22 years of experience in the field of public
and assisted housing, and she currently serves as NAHRO's Vice President
far Professional Development. In her current position as assistant professor
of social work at Howard University in Washington, DC, she is working
to establish the linkages between the housing and social work professions.
Dr. Crewe serves as the principal investigator for two grants that focus
on welfare reform and is the author of the HUD funded dissertation "Unchallenged
and Unmotivated: An Ethnographic Study of Sanctioned Welfare Reform
Recipients in Federally Subsided Housing," which focuses on the
interactions of housing and welfare reform.
Bill Crown, SPHM
Mr. Crown is the retired Vice President of Housing for Knoxville's Community
Development Corporation, the housing authority in Knoxville, Tennessee.
His responsibilities included the administration of more than 4,000
units of public housing as well as the Rental Assistance program of
approximately 2,200 units. He had been with the housing authority for
more than 26 years. Mr. Crown has been involved in the public housing
industry on a national level serving as a consultant to HUD and the
Urban Institute on matters of administration and funding, and as a long-term
member of NAHRO's National Housing Committee. Before joining the housing
authority, he taught undergraduate management courses at the University
of Tennessee while earning a masters degree in organizational psychology.
Michael S. Gifford, C.P.M., PHM
Mr. Gifford has more than 30 years experience in the housing industry.
He retired in June , 2008, as the Purchasing Manager for the Las Vegas Housing Authority
where he was responsible for formal bids, proposals and contracts, supplier
diversity and business development. He has many professional recognitions,
including the National Association of Hispanic Publications Amigo Award, the Nevada Minority Purchasing Council Excellence Award, the Asian Chamber
of Commerce Member of the Year, the Charles J. McDonald Minority Advocate
Award presented by the Institute for Supply Management, and the Robert J. Ashby Excellence in Purchasing Award presented by ISM- Nevada. Mr. Gifford is the designer of the NAHRO e-Procurement system and has given many presentations at the NAHRO national, regional and State conferences on how to conduct HUD-compliant competitive solicitations in a more cost- and time-effective manner using the Internet. In addition to his work for NAHRO, Mr. Gifford currently serves as a procurement consultant, providing procurement-related technical assistance to Agencies.
Ellis
Henry, SPHM, SHM, CPPO
Mr. Henry has over 20 years experience in governmental procurement, contract administration and construction management, with more that 10 years in public housing administration as modernization and development director, deputy and executive director. He is certified as a professional public buyer and professional purchasing officer from the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing. Mr. Henry has been a university professor since 1992.
Jules Lefkowitz
A member of the NAHRO faculty since 2001, Jules Lefcowitz has worked
in the facility management and construction industry as a trades person,
construction business owner, project manager, owner's representative,
and program manager for more than 25 years. He has integrated this succession
of experiences into a consulting practice that serves nonprofit developers,
public housing agencies, condominium associations, and property management
companies. Mr. Lefcowitz assembles facility plans, project specifications,
project bid packages, and project contract documents. He also performs
project management for clients. In addition to his consulting practice,
Mr. Lefcowitz writes about construction and property management issues
in regional and national publications. He also provides training to
organizations wishing to develop their own facility planning and construction
management capacity.
Kenneth N. Love
Mr. Love is the Vice President of Business Development for the Water and Energy Savings Corporation in St. Petersburg, FL and president of Innovative Consulting Services. Ken has 14 years of public housing experience, five years as an Assistant Director of Housing and six years Director of Facilities Maintenance. He has been a Certified Section 8 Inspector for more than fourteen years. He has been a NAHRO Faculty member for more than nine years conducting training sessions in Housing Quality Standards Inspections, Public Housing Assessment System, and Uniform Physical Condition Standards (UPCS) Inspection protocol. Mr. Love has more than 30 years of government, public and private sector training experience. His career spans from quality control, construction management, facilities management and energy conservation. He has in-depth knowledge of training development, maintenance management and procurement policy and procedure. He understands the dynamics involved in operation and management of the PHA (including Asset Management), the important role of inspections in the occupancy cycle, how inspections affect an agency's SEMAP and PHAS scores.
Larry Loyd
Larry has served at the Housing Commission of Anne Arundel County in the position of Executive Director since 1991. Anne Arundel County is a metropolitan county of approximately 500,000 residents situated between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. Prior to his tenure there, he spent time in the public and private sector in North Carolina. Larry has completed almost 40 years of service in the housing industry. He served as the President of the Maryland Association of Housing and Redevelopment Agencies (Maryland NAHRO), and held the position of Vice-President of the NAHRO Housing Committee. Currently, Larry is the President of the Middle Atlantic Regional Council of NAHRO and also serves on the NAHRO Board of Governors. His professional commitment to NAHRO allowed him to serve as a delegate for NAHRO ventures in Israel and China. Larry has also served as a delegate for NAHRO to the Tri-Country Conferences in Vancouver, British Columbia and Edinburgh, Scotland. Larry is a member of Lambda Alpha International, and holds his Certified Property Management (CPM) Certification with the Institute of Real Estate Management. For a number of years, Larry has conducted Workshop for Executive Directors Seminar for NAHRO. Participants favorably comment that he is knowledgeable, experienced and that he effectively shares information with the students.
Terry Madigan, SPHM
Mr. Madigan began his housing career in 1981 and is currently the Executive
Director of the East Hartford Housing Authority, in East Hartford Connecticut.
He has 20 years of Public Housing experience and serves as the Vice
Chair of the National NAHRO Professional Development Committee. He has
a well-rounded background in the Modernization and Maintenance field,
from both the administrative and mechanical viewpoint.
Clifton Martin, PHM, SPHM and Real Estate Sales License (MD)
Clifton Martin is the Deputy Executive Director of the Anne
Arundel County Housing Commission in Maryland. He has been working at
the Commission since 1993, with a focus on Management, Operations, and
the Housing Choice Voucher Program. He supervises over 40 staff persons
and oversees the daily operations of four departments. Mr. Martin was
a Property Manager for Oxford Realty Services and American Property
Management prior to his tenure at the Housing Commission. He is a NAHRO
faculty member currently teaching Public Housing Occupancy, Section
8 Occupancy, Sharpening Your Skills: A Housing Manager's Workshop, Workshop
for Executive Directors, Eligibility, Income and Rent Calculation, and
Earned Income Disallowance. Additionally, he has assisted NAHRO with
on-site technical assistance and developed personalized training for
housing agencies in Bradenton, FL, Covington, KY and for various state
chapter conferences throughout the U.S.
Julie McGovern, Esq.
Julie S. McGovern is a Member whose practice focuses on public housing regulatory issues, HOPE VI and mixed-finance transactions, rural lending, and affordable housing. She has a thorough understanding of public housing funding streams such as Operating, Capital, and HOPE VI Funds, both on their own and when used in conjunction with local loan programs for rental and homeownership developments, FHA insured financing, bonds, Federal Home Loan Bank’s affordable housing program, low income housing tax credits, and rehabilitation tax credits. She also has extensive experience in advising PHAs on the structuring and use of public housing affiliates, procurement, and conflict of interest issues. Julie is experienced in managing all aspects of a mixed-finance transaction from negotiation of the development agreement through multiple phased closings for rental and homeownership units and through regulatory issues arising in the operation of mixed finance developments.
Dennis Mobley, SPHM
Mr. Mobley began his career in housing in 1972 as a research analyst
with the Housing Authority of Baltimore City. After 12 years of specializing
in site-based finance, he served as Vice President of the National Center
for Housing Management and was responsible for heir privately-owned
Section 8 management portfolio. Since 1990, he has provided training,
consulting, and technical assistance to LHAs and others including NAHRO.
His NAHRO training repertoire includes PHAS, Capital Fund Program, and
Asset Management. He has also assisted in the development and delivery
of NAHRO's SPHM seminar and special on-site trainings, and often lectures
at NAHRO conferences. In addition, he is the creator of a number of
NAHRO spreadsheet software products including Budget Assistant©
which is currently being used by over 200 LHAs around the country.
Dennis Morgan
Dennis Morgan is a Senior Associate at D L Morgan & Associates.
He has provided technical assistance and training on SEMAP, Housing
Quality Standards, Screening and Terminations, Lease Enforcement, Admission
and Occupancy, Section 8 Administration, Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership,
Moving to Work, Consortia, Relocation, PHAS, and the PHA Plan. Mr. Morgan
also teamed with other senior members to co-author the Public Housing
Admission and Occupancy Guidebook, Voucher Homeownership Guidebook,
Consortia articles and other publications. Mr. Morgan has more than
30 years experience in the public housing industry, including six years
as Executive Director of Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority in Toledo,
Ohio, and serving in executive positions in two Florida PHAs for 23
years - including 16 years at the Orlando Housing Authority and seven
years as Executive Director of the Deland Housing Authority. He conducts
Eligibility, Income and Rent Calculation, Occupancy, HQS, UPI, and Sharpening
Your Skills Seminars for NAHRO. He authored NAHRO's PH Eligibility,
Income and Rent Calculation Resource Manual and the Earned Income Disallowance
Workbook. Additionally, Mr. Morgan works with NAHRO in providing technical
assistance to individual agencies across the country.
Ronald Oldham
Ron Oldham is a consultant in management services for providers of affordable housing and association management. He has worked with troubled housing authorities, has served in interim positions (Interim Director of Property Management & Community Services for Tacoma Housing Authority, July-December 2005), and has developed training curricula for housing managers and most recently commissioners under NAHRO’s professional development system. He participated in the writing and editing of “Lessons Learned: A Public Housing Guidebook” for the U.S. Department of H.U.D. in 2000. He currently serves as Director of the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of NAHRO, an association of housing authorities and community development organizations in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Prior to his consulting career which began in 1999, Ron worked for the Seattle Housing Authority for over 30 years, serving in a variety of management positions including Manager, Area Administrator, and Director of Housing Management. His last position with SHA was Deputy Executive Director.
Dave Shaffer
Mr Shaffer has more than 20 years experience developing, marketing, and presenting training seminars to public and private sector representatives in the fields of housing management, government procurement procedures, contract administration, Section 3 and resident initiatives.
Alyce Terry, SHM
Alyce Terry, CHM, SHM, has trained, developed specialized programs
and provided consulting for U.S. housing agencies and U.S. Territories
for over eighteen years. She brings over twenty years of Section 8 expertise
to NAHRO HCV presentations. Ms. Terry is equally knowledgeable regarding
public housing occupancy issues. Currently, she presents SHM, Section
8 Occupancy, SEMAP, Voucher Mastery, Section 8 Budgeting, Section 8
and Public Housing Eligibility and Rent Calculation, and Earned Income
Disallowance Seminars for NAHRO. In addition to conducting training,
Ms. Terry also works with NAHRO to provide technical assistance to individual
agencies.
Martin Walsh
Martin Walsh is an associate with Reno & Cavanaugh. Martin represents housing authorities as well as non-profit and for-profit developers across the country in redevelopments involving HOPE VI, public housing capital funds, federal low income housing tax credits, new markets tax credits, tax exempt bonds, HOME funds and other public and private sources of development funds. Martin has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is admitted to the DC bar and Pennsylvania bar.
Joy C. West, Esq.
Ms. West has more than twenty years of experience as an attorney and has handled a diverse range of cases. Over the course of her career, she has developed an impressive range of experience in the practice of law, legislation representation and procurement. She has provided technical assistance in the area of procurement to public housing agencies designated as troubled by HUD and has experience in handling urban problems including fiscal policy, airport development, community development, public and assisted housing, transportation, environment and census adjustment. She also has experience in providing technical assistance to HOPE VI sites in the area of community and supportive services (CSS). Ms. West established her own professional services corporation in 1987.
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