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Meet the Leadership


SHARON BOLLERS
President

Sharon Bollers serves as Director of Lending at Enterprise Community Loan Fund the CDFI arm under Enterprise Community Partners where she covers the DC Metro, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland markets. She is responsible components of Enterprise Community Loan Fund’s loan origination and capital deployment including lending goals for BIPOC-led developers through Enterprise’s Equity Path Forward initiative…
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KAY PIERSON
Vice President

Ms. Pierson current works as CEO of the Sustainable Communities Development Company, LLC.  Her eclectic career …
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DONNA J. GAMBRELL
SECRETARY

Donna J. Gambrell is the longest serving and first African American woman to
be appointed as Director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). During her tenure from 2007…
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SHELYNDA BURNEY BROWN
Treasurer

Shelynda Burney Brown, M.B.A. is the Vice President Real Estate Development at Enterprise Community Development (formerly CPDC),and she is responsible for business development as well as all aspects of acquisitions and redevelopment projects undertaken by ECD….
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COURTNEY BATTLE
Director

Courtney Battle is the Membership Director for the Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND). She brings a wealth of experience in journalism and communications to this role. Prior to HAND, she was an Account Manager for a local public affairs firm…
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JESSICA BABRIDGE
DIRECTOR

Jessica Babridge is from the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area.  She began her work in community development and affordable housing in 2016 as an attorney for the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (“MSHDA”), the Michigan state housing finance agency…
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L. TIA BLOUNT
Director

L. Tia Blount has more than 20 years of experience in integrated marketing and communications, branding, social and traditional media, resource and project management as well as fundraising. 

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CATHERINE BUELL
Director

Job role is Head of Community Development, Amazon in the Community at Amazon …
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YOLANDA MCCUTCHEN
Director

McCutchen joined the District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency (DCHFA) in July 2015. She serves as the Vice President of Public Relations and is responsible for all internal and external communications including social media management, advertising, and marketing. For her work at DCHFA, McCutchen has been awarded the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award for best PR/Marketing Campaign-Government in 2019 and 2020 and Magazine Specialty in 2022. Additionally, she received the 2018 Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals MarCom Awards – Platinum Award in Strategic in Communications and Media Relations/Publicity and Gold Award in Print Media.

Prior to joining DCHFA, McCutchen was an independent media consultant, professor at Claflin University and Howard University as well as a producer at NBC News. During her tenure at Howard, she was selected for the Back in the Newsroom Fellowship by the International Center for Journalists and was assigned to The Washington Post. Her work at NBC garnered the Edward R. Murrow, Clarion, Gracie and National Headliner awards. McCutchen was an RTNDF Fellow in the German Study Program for American Journalists.

In 2021 McCutchen was selected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Washington Association of Black Journalists. She is a member of Women of Color in Community Development where she joined the Board of Directors in 2022 and chairs the communications committee.


Committees

Communications:
Yolanda McCutchen, DC Housing Finance Agency – Chair
Courtney Battle, HAND
BA Cockburn, Consultant

Programs:
Kay Pierson– Chair
Shelynda Burney-Brown, Enterprise Community Development – Co-Chair
Tia Blount, Savings Solutions LLC
Crystal Jackson, Bank of America


Membership:
Sharon Bollers, Enterprise Community Loan Fund – Co-Chair
Shelynda Burney Brown, Enterprise Community Development – Co-Chair
Kay Pierson



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