CHAPA's 54th Annual Dinner Program by Citizens' Housing & Planning Association (CHAPA)

VIRTUAL 54TH ANNUAL DINNER

October 28, 2021

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WELCOME TO CHAPA’S VIRTUAL 54TH ANNUAL DINNER 6:30 - 6:45 PM

Pre-event networking session

7:00 PM

Opening remarks from CHAPA’s Board President, Felicia Jacques, and CEO, Rachel Heller 7:10 PM Introduction of special recognition by Mayor Kim Driscoll 7:15 PM

Special recognition of and remarks from Governor Charlie Baker 7:25 PM CHAPA staff video 7:30 PM

2021 CHAPA awards ceremony

WELCOME LETTER Dear Friends, Welcome to CHAPA’s 54 th Annual Dinner. On behalf of our Board of Directors and staff, we are grateful for your support and your partnership throughout the year. And, what a year this has been. We have worked together to prevent evictions, preserve housing, and build more affordable homes as the pandemic continues to impact people’s ability to pay their rents and mortgages. We have worked with our partners across the state to provide homebuyer education as more people aim to fulfill their dreams of becoming homeowners. And, we have worked together at the local, state, and federal levels to increase funding for affordable housing and to build support in our communities to construct the homes we need. Tonight, we gather to celebrate our work together, honor outstanding work done by our peers, and to take action. The American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) funds have brought over $5 billion to Massachusetts, giving us an opportunity to shape a future where our communities are strong, healthy, and vibrant. With new zoning reforms signed into state law this year, increases in funding for state rental assistance and public housing, and this influx of federal funds, we have the tools we need to invest in housing production that is affordable, equitable, accessible, sustainable, and healthy. But we need to ensure housing is a priority for these funds.

CHAPA is working hard to make this vision a reality. This effort will require participation from those of you currently at the table and with new partners. We look forward to learning together how we can craft housing programs and policies that expand opportunities for everyone to have healthy, safe, and affordable places to call home in the communities they choose. It is truly an honor to lead an organization that brings together so many passionate, caring, and dedicated people. Thank you for your partnership.

R AC H E L H E L L E R

When the Commonwealth is an affordable place for everyone, we all benefit. This means prioritizing resources for communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, investing in our public housing stock, building more affordable rental housing, supporting housing stability, and creating new homeownership opportunities with a particular focus on closing the racial homeownership gap.

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OUTSTANDING IMPACT AWARD Amy Schectman,

President and CEO of 2Life Communities, has worked for decades in the public and nonprofit sectors to advance affordable housing and social justice. Amy currently serves on the Governor’s Council to Address Aging in Massachusetts, and is president of the board of Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association, the statewide umbrella organization for affordable housing. She also serves on the board of the national Association of Jewish Aging Services, Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation and The Community Builders. She has been invited to The White House four times, and frequently hosts U.S. Congressmen, U.S. Senate staff, and state legislators. Earlier in her career, Amy served as Governor Michael Dukakis’ Director of Capital Budget and Planning, Governor Deval Patrick’s Director of Public Housing/Rental Assistance, as the Planning Director at the Boston Housing Authority, and as the Town of Brookline’s first Economic Development Director. In her ten-plus years at 2Life Communities, Amy has worked with the board to create a vibrant strategic plan, created a quasi-endowment to support agency innovation, built and nurtured an effective team at all levels of the organization, and launched an aggressive expansion campaign to fill the gaps in the senior housing affordability marketplace. Amy has a B.A. in political science from Johns Hopkins University, and a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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POLICY LEADERSHIP AWARD Robert (Bob) Terrell is

a part-time lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. Mr. Terrell is a member of the Roxbury Neighborhood Council, the Madison Park Development Corporation Board of Directors, the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association’s Policy Leadership Council, Action for Equity’s Steering Committee, the Boston NAACP’s Housing Committee, and the Assessment of Fair Housing’s Community Advisory Committee. Mr. Terrell’s areas of research are many and varied but principle among them are; housing, economic development, public transportation, sustainable development, economic democracy, gentrification & displacement, civil rights and public policy. His most recent projects include an investigation of gentrification and displacement in Roxbury, Massachusetts; the creation of a new Article within the City of Boston’s Zoning Code to help prevent gentrification and displacement within transit corridors and is participating in the creation of a new Assessment of Fair Housing for the City of Boston. Mr. Terrell received his Masters in Public Policy from Tufts University (UEP) and his BA in Government and Sociology from Bowdoin College.

EMERGING LEADER AWARD Monique Gibbs

started as a Policy Innovation Associate for MassHousing, in 2019. Her work involves developing innovative policies and programs and working collaboratively with staff across the agency’s business lines. Over the past two years, Monique has led the Racial Equity Advisory Counsel for Homeownership (REACH) an interagency and intergovernmental working group focused on narrowing the Commonwealth’s racial homeownership gap. In response to the dual pandemics of the COVID-19 public health crisis and national social justice protest, Monique worked with agency staff to create and manage the Racial Justice Housing Agenda. Through this agenda, MassHousing commits to applying a comprehensive approach to addressing racial disparities in the Massachusetts housing community. Additionally, Monique is the staff liaison to the Housing Navigator MA Inc. and the Builders of Color Coalition. Prior to joining MassHousing, Monique worked with the City of Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development as a development officer. She was also as a summer fellow with Housing Innovation Lab and interned with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. In New York, she worked for AFSCME Intl. as a Political Action Coordinator and for the New York Public Library as a Government Affairs and Community Engagement Coordinator. Originally from the Bronx, New York, Monique has experienced the real-life impact of social inequality. She credits her determination and natural advocacy spirit to growing up in a Jamaican immigrant household and coming from a long line of women that never let anyone stand in their way. Monique received her Bachelor of Art in Public Policy from the University at Albany and a Master’s in Public Administration from Northeastern University.

EMERGING LEADER AWARD Francis Jhoan Goyes Flor is

an immigrant from Riobamba, Ecuador who is passionate about ensuring the most vulnerable humans can have a safe place to call home. Her fascination with housing – from designing one house to developing housing finance systems at a national scale – comes from her own lack of stability in her childhood. Colonization, structural poverty, and unstable parenting led her to work worldwide to do her part in ensuring the human right to housing for those families who face the highest housing insecurity. Her work has included housing collaborations with resettled war refugees in Colombia, Jordan, and Uganda, disenfranchised indigenous communities in Guyana, incarcerated men in California, and rural-to-urban immigrants in Ecuador and Myanmar. As a resident of the Commonwealth, Francis has volunteered as a Zoning Board member in Watertown and as a Trustee for the Amherst Affordable Housing Trust. At MassHousing, Francis Jhoan oversees The Neighborhood Hub, the Commonwealth’s new technical assistance program for assisting Gateway Cities and their residents in the repair of their homes and communities. Francis also collaborates with her co-worker, Monique Gibbs and MassHousing’s CEO, Chrystal Kornegay, in the development of new initiatives to provide the Commonwealth’s residents stable, secure, and safe homes.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD Gladys Vega has

dedicated more than 30 years of service to the city of Chelsea and The Chelsea Collaborative/La Colaborativa, which she joined in 1990. She took on increasing responsibility with each passing year, moving from receptionist to community organizer to Assistant Executive Director and, ultimately, to Executive Director in 2006.

Gladys has worked as an organizer and an advocate to ensure that the Latinx community has a role in determining the ways its needs and concerns are addressed. She believes that empowerment of the individual leads to empowerment of the community and that social action is the vehicle an empowered community can use to achieve its goals. Gladys is the architect of most of La Colaborativa’s programs, initiatives, and coalitions. She is also one of Chelsea’s most prominent and important community leaders, receiving local and national accolades for her leadership. In 2010, she was named as a Barr Foundation Fellow, which enabled her to participate in a learning journey with eleven other non-profit leaders from Massachusetts. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in Chelsea, and the small city become the epicenter of the virus outbreak in the state of Massachusetts, Gladys once again took the lead in sounding the alarm, demanding increased resources for her community, and mobilizing cityand statewide resources to ensure Latinx communities were not left behind in response efforts. Gladys was born in Puerto Rico and came to Chelsea with her family at the age of nine. Since that time, Gladys has made a lifelong commitment to the community in which she was raised. Being a mother of two has deepened her commitment to building a better future.

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CHAPA And congratulates all of tonight’s honorees! Massachusetts’s 12 NeighborWorks network members served more than 28,000 people and invested $415 million in communities across the Commonwealth last year. We stand with you in our commitment to affordable, equitable, accessible and sustainable communities. Learn more at NeighborWorks.org @NeighborWorks.

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Celebrating 50 years, thank you for being part of our history and our future!

CHAPA’S LONG-STANDING FUNDERS

Thank you to 2021 Platinum Partner, Kuehn Charitable Foundation, and 2021 Bronze Partner, Kevin P. Martin, Jr.!

CHAPA STAFF Jenna Connolly Micky Cox Maritza Crossen Whitney Demetrius Ryan Dominguez

Communications & Events Manager Office Administrator Director of Special Initiatives Director of Fair Housing Engagement Policy Analyst

David Gasser

Programs Director

Rachel Heller

Chief Executive Officer

Abhidnya Kurve Dana LeWinter Lily Linke Carol Marine Ron McCormick

Policy Associate Municipal Engagement Director Municipal Engagement Associate Senior Program Manager Program Manager

Elizabeth Palma-Diaz

Senior Program Manager

Eric Shupin

Director of Public Policy

Karen Wiener

Chief Operating Officer

CHAPA LEADERSHIP 2020–2021 Board of Directors OFFICERS

MEMBERS

President: Amy Schectman

Andrea Aldana Kenan Bigby Rachana Crowley Aida Franquiz Soni Gupta Wendell Joseph Jason Korb

President-Elect: Felicia Jacques Vice Presidents: Andrew DeFranza Gordon Pulsifer

Dara Kovel Gloria Leipzig Kathy McGilvray Christopher Norris Leslie Reid Olivia Richard Dr. Megan Sandel

Treasurer: Angie Liou Clerk: Naomi Sweitzer

2020–2021 Policy Leadership Council La-Brina Almeida Gregory Bialecki Juan Bonilla Sarah Bouchard David Bryant Josh Cohen David Colton Jacqueline Cooper Jack Cooper Chris Cotter Symone Crawford Eliza Datta Keri-Nicole Dillman Marc Dohan Keith Fairey Joseph Flatley Peter Gagliardi

Rickie Joanna Golden Brad Gordon Aaron Gornstein Kristen Harol Marie Herb Lizbeth Heyer Jarred Johnson Lisa Joyner Colin Killick Emily Loomis Colleen Loveless Rafael Mares Rebecca Plaut Mautner Vincent O’Donnell Elton Ogden Rosa Ordaz Lynn Peterson

Jeanne Pinado Jennifer Raitt Lueteshia Raymond Charleen Regan Maddie Ribble Anabelle Rondon Jeffrey Sanchez Esther Schlorholtz Laura Shufelt Sadie Simone Taisha Sturdivant Maggie Super Church Bob Terrell Gladys Vega Ken Willis

Thanks for making a difference in our community Bank of America recognizes Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association. Community leaders like you are a vital resource and inspiration to us all. Thanks to you, progress is being made and our community is becoming a better place to live and work.

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Congratulations to Amy Schectman, Bob Terrell, Francis Jhoan Goyes Flor, Monique Gibbs, and Gladys Vega!

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We congratulate this year’s award winners—Amy Schectman of 2Life Communities, Bob Terrell of Tufts University, Francis Jhoan Goyes Flor of MassHousing, Monique Gibbs of MassHousing, and Gladys Vega of La Colaborativa.

Thank you CHAPA

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CONTRIBUTORS Bald Hill Builders Bay Cove Human Services The Boston Foundation Corcoran Management Company, Inc. Dakota Partners Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation Harborlight Community Partners Krokidas & Bluestein LLP The Life Initiative Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Boston LISC)/National Equity Fund, Inc. Madison Park Development Corporation Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC) MassDevelopment Newton Community Development Foundation Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. Pennrose Planning Office for Urban Affairs Sullivan & Worcester LLP TD Bank Technical Assisstance Collaborative Way Finders, Inc.