Jane Knodell is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, where she teaches and conducts research on financial institutions and serves as Chair of the Department of Economics. She also has hands-on expertise, through board work and policy monographs, in the roles of community reinvestment laws and community development financial institutions in fostering broad-based economic development. [More]

John Emmeus Davis was one of the co-founders of Burlington Associates in 1993. He previously served as the housing director and Enterprise Community coordinator for the City of Burlington, Vermont. He has worked as a community organizer and nonprofit executive director in East Tennessee and as a technical assistance provider for community land trusts and other nonprofit community development organizations throughout the United States. He is the author of Contested Ground: Collective Action and the Urban Neighborhood and The Affordable City: Toward a Third Sector Housing Policy and has taught housing policy and neighborhood planning at New Hampshire College and MIT. [More]

Mary O'Hara has 20 years of experience in the field of community development lending and community reinvestment, and has served in leadership positions at the Massachusetts Urban Reinvestment Advisory Group, Boston Community Capital, and the Institute for Community Economics. Her special expertise in community lending includes loan fund start-up, loan underwriting, designing "work outs" for troubled loans, overall fund management and general technical assistance to community development financial institutions. [More]

Michael Brown has 25 years experience in community development, housing development, advocacy and organizational development. Prior to becoming a partner in Burlington Associates, Michael served as Executive Director of the Woodland CLT in Clairfield, Tennessee, Associate Director of the Institute for Community Economics, and Executive Director of the Housing Coalition in St. Cloud, Minnesota. [More]

Michael Monte has worked in the community development field for over 25 years, and has special expertise in downtown, economic, and waterfront development. Over the course of his career, Michael has served as executive director for several nonprofit organizations and is currently serving, in a second term, as the Director of the City of Burlington's Community and Economic Development Office. [More]

Rick Jacobus has 15 years experience in housing and community development including as a Seinor Program Officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation and as Director of Neighborhood Economic Development for the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation in Oakland, CA. He serves as a Lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. [More]