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Alazne (Ali) Solis Senior Vice President and Public Policy & Corporate Affairs Executive |
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Andrew Jakabovics Senior Director, Policy Development & Research |
Peter Lawrence Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Affairs |
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Diane Yentel Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Affairs |
Emily Cadik Senior Policy Analyst |
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Michael A. Spotts Senior Policy Analyst |
Jeanie Shattuck Senior Policy Analyst |
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Zachary Johnson Policy Analyst |
Kenny Marable Policy Assistant |
Alazne (Ali) Solis
Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Corporate Affairs Executive
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3921
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As senior vice president and public policy and corporate affairs executive for Enterprise Community Partners, Alazne (Ali) Solis oversees the areas of public policy, communications, marketing and resource development. In this position, she develops and advocates policies to advance the development of affordable housing and sustainable communities with the administration, Congress, state and local policy stakeholders and other national industry partners. In addition, she heads the fundraising efforts and oversees the organization’s internal and external communications and marketing functions. Solis joined Enterprise in February 2000 as the director of congressional outreach. In 2001, she was promoted to deputy director of public policy, then director in 2003 and to senior vice president in 2009.
During her time with Enterprise, Solis has advanced Enterprise’s wide range of public policy priorities. In the summer of 2008, she led the Save America’s Neighborhoods Campaign, a cross-industry taskforce of more than 100 national organizations that secured $4 billion in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act to stabilize communities struggling in the foreclosure crisis. Solis also played a key role in creating the National Community Stabilization Trust to facilitate the transfer of foreclosed and vacant residential properties from financial institutions and government entities to qualified local housing development partners.
In addition, Solis has testified before the U.S. Congress as well as state and local policy-makers on the issues of housing, banking and tax legislation. She also has developed and maintained strategic alliances with national and local trade associations, regulatory agencies and banking and finance industry partners.
Prior to joining Enterprise, Solis was the legislative director for the congressionally chartered Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. She also worked in the private sector for W.R. Grace, AT&T and the Washington Group. She is an INROADS alumnus and a University of Maryland graduate with a dual bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish.
In addition to her work at Enterprise, Solis is on the board of the Montgomery Housing Partnership, a private nonprofit that develops, acquires, rehabilitates and builds high-quality apartments and homes. The former president of Women in Housing and Finance, Inc., a professional association of 800 women and men from the housing and financial services industries, she also serves as a bilingual mentor for the Silver Spring Interfaith Housing Coalition.
Andrew Jakabovics
Senior Director, Policy Development & Research
202.842.9190
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Andrew Jakabovics recently joined Enterprise Community Partners as Senior Director, Policy Development and Research. Prior to joining Enterprise, he served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he provided policy recommendations and analysis to the Assistant Secretary, Secretary, and other senior staff both within HUD and across agencies. His primary focus was on housing finance reform, with a particular eye towards issues of access and affordability. In addition, he devoted attention to foreclosure prevention through improving opportunities for modifications and to mitigating foreclosure impacts on neighborhoods and communities. Prior to joining HUD, Mr. Jakabovics served as Associate Director for Housing and Economics at the Center for American Progress, where he worked on housing, household debt, higher education, and other issues related to sustaining and growing the middle class. Mr. Jakabovics has appeared frequently in the media, primarily for his research on the effects of the current mortgage crisis and potential policy solutions.
Peter Lawrence
Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Affairs
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3915
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Peter Lawrence is the Senior Director of Public Policy & Government Affairs for Enterprise Community Partners. He leads the execution of Enterprise’s policy and advocacy agenda. His primary issue responsibilities are tax (including advocacy on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and the New Markets Tax Credit programs as well as tax incentives to promote green and sustainable building), affordable housing preservation, and rental housing policy. He also is the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition.
Prior to joining Enterprise, he was a Legislative and Policy Associate at the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA), focusing on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, tax-exempt housing private activity bond programs, and Government Sponsored Enterprises. He also was a Housing Policy Analyst for the Center on Budget Policies and Priorities, where he worked on the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, a Congressional Fellow for Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island in his capacity as the Ranking Member of the Senate Housing and Transportation Subcommittee, and a Presidential Management Fellow for the Office of Policy Development & Research at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development. In addition to his federal experience, he has served as an Analyst for the affordable housing group of Chicago Metropolis 2020, and as an appointed member of the Interagency Taskforce on Homelessness of the City of Berkeley, California.
Diane Yentel
Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Affairs
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3920
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Diane Yentel joined Enterprise in November 2011 as the Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, where she will lead the organization’s advocacy efforts on federal appropriations. Diane comes to Enterprise with over 10 years of housing and community development policy experience at federal, state and local levels.
Prior to coming to Enterprise, Diane was the Director of the Public Housing Management and Occupancy Division at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), where she managed a team overseeing the development and implementation of nationwide public housing policies, procedures and guidelines. In this capacity, she worked with senior leadership on development of the Rental Assistance Demonstration program to leverage private capital to rehabilitate and preserve public housing. Diane led the Department's efforts to ensure robust resident awareness of, and participation in, the development of the Demonstration program, including coordinating and facilitating, for the first time in HUD's history, a forum of residents from all of HUD's major rental assistance programs to discuss their recommendations with the Secretary and other senior HUD staff.
Diane also worked for several years developing and advocating for low income housing policies and appropriations. At the National Low Income Housing Coalition, she created and led the Katrina Housing Group (KHG), a coalition of over 150 national and Gulf Coast organizations working to ensure an appropriate federal response to the 2005 hurricanes. In this role she successfully influenced content for two major pieces of disaster recovery related legislation and saw key provisions through to enactment, including the creation of a National Disaster Housing Strategy, as well as led advocacy efforts to secure over $4 billion in housing recovery funds for the Gulf Coast. At Oxfam America she led a coalition of over 120 state and local organizations from the Gulf Coast to ensure that housing recovery from the hurricanes of 2005 were addressed by Presidential candidates, culminating in the inclusion of a coalition-drafted recovery commitment in both the Republican and Democratic platforms. At the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless she trained over 1500 people across the state on topics from Housing 101 to Eviction Prevention and also worked to secure adequate appropriations for state administered low income housing and homelessness programs.
A former Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia, Diane holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Texas-Austin and a Bachelors Degree from the State University of New York-Stony Brook.
Emily Cadik
Senior Polciy Analyst
Enterprise Communtiy Partners, Inc.
202.403.8015
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Emily Cadik joined Enterprise as a Senior Policy Analyst in July 2012. Prior to joining Enterprise, she was a program coordinator for the Moving to Work public housing demonstration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Her first two years at HUD were spent as a Presidential Management Fellow, which enabled her to also work with HUD’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, as well as Bread for the City, a local comprehensive service agency for low-income families. She earned a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jeanie Shattuck
Senior Policy Analyst
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.8018
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Jeanie Shattuck joined Enterprise in June 2010, after graduating from Duke University with a Masters in Public Policy. As a Legislative and Policy Analyst, she utilizes qualitative and quantitative data to provide thorough analyses on a wide range of issues related to housing policy. In 2009, Jeanie interned with Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing at the Urban Land Institute, where she researched mixed-income, mixed-use developments across the country. Her enthusiasm for responsible housing policy is directly linked to her experiences growing up in Baltimore City, Maryland.
Michael Spotts
Senior Policy Analyst
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3902
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Michael Spotts is a Senior Policy Analyst for Enterprise Community Partners. He joined the Public Policy team in August 2009. In his position at Enterprise, he conducts research and analysis of affordable housing and community development policies. Michael graduated with a Masters of Science in Public Policy and Management from the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to attending graduate school he worked as the Training Coordinator for the Housing Assistance Council. He has also served as a consultant or intern for several organizations, including Sustainable Pittsburgh, where he assisted in the development of the organization’s Sustainable Community Essentials series of resources and case studies. Prior experience in the community development field includes work with Allegheny County (PA) Economic Development, the Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the Pennsylvania Rural Development Council (now known as the Governor’s Advisory Council on Rural Affairs). Michael graduated Summa Cum Laude from Dickinson College in 2006, and received a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Community and Economic Development from the Pennsylvania State University in 2008.
Zachary Johnson
Policy Analyst
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3903
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Zachary Johnson joined Enterprise as a Policy Analyst in May 2012, after joining the Public Policy team as an intern in 2011. In this position, he focuses on appropriations advocacy, along with rural and native American housing and other housing preservation advocacy work. Zachary earned his Masters of Science Degree in Public Policy & Management from the H. John Heinz III College at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to enrolling in graduate school, he worked with a non-governmental organization in Ghana to provide capital for small business entrepreneurs in rural communities and worked as a financial analyst for two years at Wachovia Securities’ Leveraged Finance group. Zachary received his Bachelors Degree in Finance from Howard University in 2007. His enthusiasm for robust affordable housing policy is linked to his experiences growing up and attending college in the Washington, D.C. area, where he has witnessed widespread displacement of families due to rising rents and property values.
Kenny Marable
Policy Assistant
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3929
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Kenny Marable joined Enterprise as Policy Assistant in January 2011. Prior to working with Enterprise, he worked as an assistant with development firms in his hometown of Raleigh, NC. While attending college in Washington D.C. he interned in various government relations roles with multiple organizations. Kenny holds a B.A. in Political Science from Howard University where he discovered an interest in the changing dynamics of the surrounding neighborhoods and community development within Washington.