Social Purpose Real Estate Summit 2023 | The Nonprofit Centers | 23 October 2023 | Wayne State University, 42 W Warren Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, US

This conference is for social purpose real estate leader intentionally including various perspectives in the conversation. It will be an opportunity for learning from peers about best practices. We’ll hear from expert practitioners who bring skills and innovative resources for creating social purpose real estate. Together we’ll establish and grow the collaborative network necessary to create community-serving, community-owned real estate assets, so that ultimately social purpose real estate leaders can support greater impact in local communities.

2023 Speakers

Alix Aylen
Program Lead, Infrastructure Institute

China Brotsky
Author, N/A

Ashanti Bryant
Senior Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Allandra Bulger
Executive Director, Co.act Detroit

Monjia Bélizaire
Community Real Estate Consultant, Simply Sustainability

Kyla Carlsen
Senior Director of Program Strategy & Innovation, Co.act Detroit/TechTown

Maxine Clark
President, Delmar Divine

Ryan Collins-Swartz
Co-Executive Director, Tapestry Community Capital

Sean Condon
Director, Social and Economic Innovation, Vancity Community Foundation

Lettice Crawford
Director of Lending, IFF

Devan Cronshaw
Director of Special Projects, South Bronx Unite

Michael Darby
Real Estate Consultant, Community Vision Capital & Consulting, Inc.

Simon Davie
CEO, Terra Social Purpose Real Estate

Alex Desiga
Board Member, South Tower Community Land Trust

Somala Diby
Project Executive, DVM Consulting

Graig Donnelly
President, Proxy LLC

Saul Ettlin
Senior Advisor to the President, Community Vision Capital & Consulting, Inc.

Ashleigh Feryan
Neighborhood Services Manager, City of Lewisville

Tim Fox
VP, Indigenous Relations & Equity, Calgary Foundation

Kendra Fry
Project Lead, Trinity Centres Foundation

Carman Gaines
Associate Director, Local Color

Miriam Gee
Architect, CoEverything

Yinnon Geva
Postdoctoral research fellow, Infrastructure Institute, University of Toronto

LoriAnn Girvan
Principal, LoriAnn Girvan Advisors/ Brownsville Partnership

Kristen Gramling
Operations Director, Serve Denton

Anna Growcott
VP, Consulting, Artspace

Reid Henry
Senior Associate, AEA Consulting

Wendy Holmes
Senior VP, Artspace

Carolyn Johnson
CEO, Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation

Yodit Mesfin Johnson
President/CEO, Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW)

Steven Johnston
Executive Director, Community Impact Real Estate Society

Bill Kennedy
VP, Finance, LEF

Helen Ketema
Project Lead, Infrastructure Institute

Steve Kinder
Innovation Analyst, Southern Methodist University - Master of Arts in Design & Innovation

Toshiyuki Kitamura
Group Manager, TSSC, Toyota

Laura Kohn
Vice President of Care and Education, Mission Driven Finance

Kathy Laird
Project Lead, NEW

Kiel Lopez-Schmidt
Real Estate Development Manager, Designing Justice & South Tower CLT

Brian McBay
Executive Director, 221A

Carmut Me
Head of Cultural Spaces R&D, 221A

Chris Miller
Co-Founder and Board Chair, National Coalition for Community Capital

Paulina O'Kieffe-Anthony
Executive Director, SKETCH Working Arts

Thomas OConnor
President, Al Sigl Community of Agencies

Wendy Ogren
VP of Services, CNM

Kwaku Osei
Chairman, Cooperative Capital

David Palmer
CEO, DC Palmer LLC

Lycrecia L. Parks
Chief Risk Officer and Vice President of Portfolio Management, Chicago Community Loan Fund

Brandon Quintanilla
Director, Culture Night Market / EMLN

Rick Raleigh
Senior Project Manager, IFF

Daniel Ramirez
Project Manager, Hester Street

Chavelle Sangokoya
Vice President, Programs & Strategic Initiatives, African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs

Kim Sarnecki
CEO, Together Center

Oysharja Sayed
Sr. Project Manager, sonderbloom

Rachel Sikora
Director of Consulting – Design & Construction, IFF

James Singleton
Principal, InToto Studio

Pat Smith
Chief Executive Officer, Serve Denton

India Solomon
Director, CityShares

Thaddeus Squire
Chief Commons Steward, Social Impact Commons

Diana Steele
Tenant Relations Coordinator, The Kahanoff Centre

Harrison Tassopoulos
Design Strategist & Researcher, KIMOTA Design / Southern Methodist University Master of Arts in Design & Innovation

Remy-Anne Viajar
Director, Social Purpose Real Estate - SCNP, Sobrato Organization / Philanthropies

Dariela Villon-Maga
Founder & President, DVM Consulting

Stephen Westbrooks
Executive Director - Southern Region, IFF

Bucky Willis
Designer, Crane + Boom

Victor Willis
Executive Director, PARC

Selena Wilson
CEO, East Oakland Youth Development Center

Amina Yassin-Omar
VP, Community and Placemaking, LEF

Miru Yogarajah
Planning Coordinator, Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre

2023 Sponsors

GOLD:
• AI Sigl
• IFF
• Serve denton
• Sobrato
• Tides
• Vancity

BRONZE
• Community Vision Capital & Consulting
• Cinnaire
• City Institute
• University of Windsor – Centre for Cities

SUPPORTING PARTNER
• Genesis LA
• Co.act Detroit