Upcoming "Building Power, Unlocking Capital: Advancing Equity Through Developer Capacity"

• Housing CA, Sacramento, California

• March, 2026 - Panelist

“Understanding Financial Basics for Small Businesses”

• Virtual

• August 2025 - Solo Presenter

• About: Designed to build financial confidence and real estate readiness, rooted in community ownership. Covering business entity types, core financial concepts, financial statements, accounting methods and more.

“Advancing Social Purpose Real Estate Projects and Developing Community Assets”

• SPRE Conference, Los Angeles California

• May 2025 - Co-Presenter with Sally Marrow

“Exploring Social Purpose Real Estate: Shaping Communities for a Better Future”

• Virtual

• April, 2025 - Co-presenter with David Schrayer of CSN

• About: An introduction to the field of nonprofit shared spaces and why they are critical to helping communities thrive.

“From Entrepreneur to Property Owner: Supporting Small Businesses in Purchasing Commercial Property”

• Small Business Anti Displacement Conference, Virtual

• November, 2024 - Panelist

• About:: along with Jabari Jones, President of West Philadelphia Corridor Collaborative, and James Terrell, President, COO, and Director at Fortis Capital. For individual business owners, purchasing commercial property can seem daunting. This panel provided diverse perspectives on how organizations can offer coaching, funding, and other support services to encourage BIPOC and immigrant entrepreneurs to purchase commercial real estate in their community.

“Building Inclusivity: Cultivating Housing Production for First Time or Low Wealth Developers”

• 2024 West Coast Urban District Forum, San Diego, California

• March 2024 - Panelist

• About: with Justin Smith, MBA, Assoc. DBIA, LEED AP of Relequity, and Elliot Batch of the Downtown Fresno Partnership on democratizing and accelerating infill housing and other urban development.

"The Missing $326 Billion: Building Opportunity by Regaining Land Control”

• Small Business Anti Displacement Conference, College Park, Maryland

• November, 2023 - Panelist

• About: Along with Cat Howard President of Community Vision, Rudy Espinoza from Inclusive Action for the City and Bibiana Stevens from City First Enterprises.  We cannot talk about wealth- and power-building opportunities for BIPOC-owned businesses without talking about land loss and its antidote — land control. For example, between 1920 and 1997 the compounded value of Black agricultural land loss is estimated to be $326 billion. The panelists discussed how their organizations define land control, report on innovative models of land control they are seeing in their regions, and walk through some of the most promising financing strategies for achieving land control.

"Commercial Spaces in Affordable Housing Communities: A Tool for Expanding Equity and Cultural Placemaking”

• Nonprofit Housing Conference (NPH) San Francisco, California

• October, 2022 - Panelist

“Transit Oriented Development and Bay Area Growth”

• Terra Verde Radio Program, KPFA Berkeley, California

• July, 2011 - Panelist

• About: The Bay Area’s regional transportation agency estimates that by 2035 about two million more people will be living, working, and commuting in our nine counties, over the current population of about seven million. With this kind of growth projected, measures must be in place to shape the future in economical, equitable, and eco-efficient ways. Listen in as we discuss transit-oriented development as a means to ensure that Bay Area communities can become more prosperous as they grow more populous with Gilda Gonzales, CEO of the Unity Council in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, Karen Chapple, Professor of City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, and Amanda Bornstein of the Greenbelt Alliance in the North Bay.

• Recording