Emilio is Chief Executive Officer of Urban Edge, located in Jackson Square at the crossroads of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. At Urban Edge, Emilio oversees all lines of business in its $5M annual operating budget. He manages a leadership team that builds affordable rental homes, creates first-time homebuyers, stems displacement through foreclosure prevention, builds wealth and credit scores for low- and moderate-income families, and organizes residents living in Urban Edge’s 1,400 affordable rental homes to become leaders of community change. In 2020, Emilio will lead the organization in creating a strategic plan that will guide its future activities and objectives.

Before Urban Edge, Emilio was President and Chief Executive Officer of Bridge Street Development Corporation, a community development corporation in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, Emilio has worked with the Association of Black Foundation Executives, the Executive Office of the Mayor of Washington, DC, and for the Rhode Island Foundation. He is an alumnus of the State University of New York at Oswego and holds a JD from the University of Iowa’s College of Law.

Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Officer of IBA—Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, a Boston-based community building nonprofit organization founded in 1968 whose mission is to empower individuals through education, workforce development and arts programs, and to create affordable housing communities.

During her tenure, IBA has completed a dramatic financial, operational and programmatic turnaround, creating a stronger organization that is now poised to take a more active role in public policy issues affecting Latinos in Massachusetts.   Under her leadership, IBA has expanded a joint venture with Bunker Hill Community College that created a satellite campus in Villa Victoria (IBA’s affordable housing community); has grown its youth development programs; has increased arts and culture programs to anchor it as New England’s premier Latino arts hub; and has merged with its real estate development affiliate to create more efficient mission-driven synergies and develop more affordable housing.

Dr. Calderón-Rosado has served as advisor to various task forces, boards, commissions and high-profile searches, including Boston Police Department and Boston Public Health Commission.  In 2009, she was selected for the prestigious Barr Foundation Fellowship granted to the most gifted non-profit leaders in Greater Boston.  In 2010, Massachusetts’ Governor Deval Patrick appointed her to the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the first Latina in the Commonwealth’s history.  She is a Founding Board member of the Margarita Muñiz Academy, the first dual-language innovation high school in Massachusetts. In November 2013, Mayor-elect Martin Walsh appointed Dr. Calderón-Rosado to co-lead his housing transition team.   In April 2014, Mayor Walsh appointed her as a member of his newly formed Housing Task Force and to his Women’s Commision.

Dr. Calderón-Rosado is a Puerto Rican-born community leader who also has vast experience in higher education, teaching and policy research in areas affecting Latinos and other populations of color.  She received her doctorate in Public Policy on Aging at the Gerontology Center, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and a Honoris Causa Doctorate from Cambridge College.

Jay Coburn has had an unusual career as an advocate, community activist, and chef/small business owner.  Since 2012, Jay has served as President and CEO of the Community Development Partnership – the non-profit community development corporation serving the eight towns of lower Cape Cod.  He oversees the CDP’s affordable housing and economic development programs designed to build a diverse year-round community of people who can afford to live, work and thrive here.  Jay manages an annual budget of $3.9 million funded through government and private sector grants, individual donors and earned revenue while leading a staff of 16 professionals.

Jay grew up on a small family farm in New Jersey and has B.S. in Human Ecology from Cornell University. He spent 10 years in Washington, D.C. as an activist, lobbyist and policy analyst for several HIV/AIDS and adolescent health national nonprofits. After moving to the Outer Cape in 1997, his career took a ten year detour while he cofounded and ran one of Cape Cod’s most highly acclaimed restaurants, CHESTER. As a chef/restaurateur, he worked closely with local farms & fishermen and received technical assistance from the CDP for the restaurant’s business plan. Prior to joining CDP, Jay worked with State Senator Dan Wolf as Co-Chair of his Campaign’s Finance Committee, Director of Community Relations for his State House Office and Political Director for the Senator’s 2012 re-election. 

Jay serves on the Board of Corporators of the Cape Cod Five Bank and is Chair of the Mass Association of Community Development Corporations Policy Committee.  In 2015, Jay was appointed by Governor Baker to serve on the Massachusetts Rural Policy Commission and he currently serves as Vice Chair of the Commission.  He is a member of the Advisory Board of Vermont’s Sterling College. He served as a member of the Truro Select Board from 2012 to 2018 and was Chair of the Select Board from 2013 to 2015

Jay lives in Provincetown and on winter weekends he can be found on the Alpine and Nordic ski trails of northern Vermont.

Marc Dohan is the Executive Director of the NewVue Communities, formally Twin Cities Community Development Corporation, in Fitchburg and Leominster, Massachusetts, a position he has held since 2002.  He directed the Agency’s housing department from 2000 to 2002.  Before joining the NewVue Communities, Marc worked as a lawyer focusing on municipal finance.  He has a degree in both law and urban planning.

Suneeth John is the Director of Real Estate at Fenway CDC. He has 15+ years of experience working on award winning domestic and international projects and has worn multiple hats including those of architect, landscape architect, urban designer, real estate development manager, underwriter, etc., to name a few.
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Suneeth’s career has been informed and enriched by volunteer leadership positions in participatory planning and affordable housing development. He is the President of the Board of Metro West Collaborative Development, a CDC focused on improving affordable housing opportunities in Boston’s western suburbs. Suneeth was also a former member of the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) in Watertown. In addition to degrees in architecture and landscape architecture, Suneeth also holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development (MSRED). He is a registered landscape architect (MA) and a USGBC LEED AP BD+C. 

Colleen received a Bachelor’s Degree B.S.B.A. in Marketing and a Masters in Business Administration M.B.A. from Western New England University.  She has worked in various sales and marketing positions for H.P. Hood in Boston, The NutraSweet Company (Division of Monsanto) in Chicago and Heublein (Wine & Spirits) in Hartford before starting her own business in 1994.

For 15 years she owned an international category management organization located in Hartford, CT and Tampa, FL.  The organization specialized in strategic sales planning, marketing and merchandising for food and consumer product manufacturers and retailers in the North American, European and Latin American markets. Sample client list included: Gerber Baby Foods, Stanley Tools, Goya Foods, Colgate-Palmolive, Shaw’s Supermarkets, Schlage Hardware, and the Swiss owned company - Novartis Pharmaceutical.

Colleen serves on the board of directors for the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC), Boston University’s Leadership Council & a Parent Ambassador, the Policy Leadership Council at the Citizen’s Housing & Planning Association (CHAPA), and Baystate Medical Center’s Benefits Advisory Council (CBAC).  In the past she has served on the Johnson & Wales University Advisory Board in Providence, RI, the Suffield Foundation for Excellent Schools in Connecticut and the Long-Term Recovery Group following the tornadoes in 2011 that devastated Western Massachusetts.

In 2009 she accepted the position of the first Executive Director for Revitalize Community Development Corporation taking it from an all volunteer organization working just one day per year to a year-round program and office on Main Street in Springfield.  Revitalize CDC provides critical repairs, rehabilitation, and modifications on the homes of low-income families with children, the elderly, military veterans and people with special needs. 

In 2015 the organization expanded its services into the city of Holyoke, MA. Since Colleen started in 2009 RCDC has completed over 300 home projects with the help of almost 10,000 volunteers and hundreds of sponsors, donors, and collaborators. RCDC has also worked on many nonprofit facilities and community spaces over the last several years.  Examples include: The Ronald McDonald House, Transitional Home for Homeless Military Veterans, Square One Playground, WGBY’s North End Learning & Literacy Center, JC Williams Community Center, Community Music School, and created a community garden.

The organization has increased the number of individuals served on home projects per year from approximately 15-20 up to as high as 300.  When nonprofit and community spaces and parks are included, the number of individuals served is well into the thousands annually.  Thanks to generous sponsors, donors, and volunteers, RCDC consistently leverages funding by a ratio as high as 4 to 1, investing $29 Million of value into the cities of Springfield and Holyoke since its inception.

In 2013 Revitalize CDC implemented a strategic Neighborhood Revitalization Plan in Old Hill called GreenNFit. The annual GreenNFit block rebuilds have been and will be on contiguous blocks, from Tyler St to Hickory St. Each year, over 25 homes are worked on 1 block with over 1,000 volunteers and 90 sponsors.  In 10 years, over 250 homes will be rebuilt directly impacting almost 1,000 individuals.  To date, Tyler St, Pendleton Ave, King St, Lebanon St and Greene St have been completed.  The initiative will: preserve affordable housing stock, keep houses on the tax rolls, and prevent condemnation/abandonment, ensure that low-income homeowners have safe, healthy, and energy-efficient homes, increase homeowners’ financial stability through reduced energy bills and decreased need for capital improvements, improve residents’ quality of life, sense of community, and civic pride.

Colleen Loveless Awards:
•    Western New England University “Alumna of the Year”                        2016
•    Business West  - “Difference Maker” Class of 2014                          2014
•    Develop Springfield – “Partners in Progress” Award                         2014
Revitalize CDC Awards
•    Stone Soul – “Community Service” Award                            2013
•    National Booz Allen Hamilton #1 Affiliate in the USA-Management Excellence Award         2012
•    Recognition Award from the Massachusetts Secretary of Labor & Workforce Development         2012
       Secretary Joanne F. Goldstein for the successful implementation of the “National Emergency Grant"
•    Citation Award – City of Springfield – Mayor Domenic Sarno                    2012
              Recognition for 20 years of service in the city
•    Citation Award – Commonwealth of MA – Governor Deval L. Patrick & House of Representatives    2012
               Rebuilding low-income family’s homes damaged by the 2011 tornadoes