Tabitha Atkins has dedicated the majority of her career to the community development finance

industry, working in various capacities to ensure that residents, small businesses, nonprofits,

and anchor institutions in historically under-resourced areas have access to affordable financial

products and services. Her primary focus has been sourcing, underwriting, and providing asset

management services using creative financing tools such federal and state New Markets Tax

Credits ("NMTCs") and historic tax credits ("HTCs"), grants, and senior and subordinated debt.

She has held positions at Cross Street Partners and Urban Action Community Development,

City First Bank of DC, National Trust Community Investment Corporation, the CDFI Fund, and

Opportunity Finance Network, and has worked on a range of projects supporting access to

quality healthcare, social services and healthy foods, scaling operations for manufacturing

companies, and new construction and historic revitalization of commercial real estate in

disadvantaged urban areas. In 2023, she launched The Atkins Group to leverage her

relationships and track record to provide direct NMTC consulting services to community

facilities and to assist lending institutions with capital deployment strategies. In addition to her

commitment to raising capital for highly impactful projects, Tabitha is currently a governing

board member for the St. Agnes Hospital Foundation, The Creative Alliance, Baltimore

Heritage, and the Partners for the Common Good; she sits on a few NMTC Advisory Boards;

and she is on the Partners for the Common Good’s Loan Committee. She is also a founding

board member of Women of Color in Community Development, which supports the personal,

educational and professional development of women of color engaged in fields related to

community and economic development. Tabitha has a Master's of Public Policy and

Administration (Jackson State University) and MBA (Johns Hopkins University). She loves to

travel, listen to music, laugh, and spend quality time with her family and friends.