| Colorado Community Land Trust Your partner in affordable housing |
JULIE MAJORS (Chair) is currently working as a Real Estate Portfolio Agent with
the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners, one of the largest land owners in
the State of Colorado. The mission of the Land Board is to provide reasonable and
consistent revenue over time to the School Trust. This trust was established for the
distinct funding and management of School Trust land assets established at
Colorado’s original land grant. Julie works on the commercial real estate assets that
the trust manages, including vertical office property along the front range,
development parcels in the metro area, and cell tower sites throughout Colorado.
In the past, Julie was actively involved in planning and marketing two high-profile
mixed-use master- planned communities in the Denver area, one known as the
Lowry Redevelopment area. Julie’s role was extensive and hands-on, with the
multitude of disciplines and decisions required to bring these communities to
market. While at Lowry, Julie was involved in the development of the affordable
housing portfolio and worked with the general contractor to complete the required
units. Julie has been orchestrating land sales transactions of various types of land
holdings for over 15 years, including multi-family, commercial, and SF attached and
detached. With success, she orchestrated over 30 builders and 20 multi-level land
transactions. Julie has been in the Denver real estate market for over 20 years ,
initially working in the finance arena and then as a Senior Asset Manager for
distressed asset work-outs, where she successfully directed the management and
disposition of $50 million dollars of non-performing real estate loans and REO that
included apartments, office, retail, industrial, land and residential. Julie has many
long-term relationships in the Denver area, with Realtor’s, bankers, developers,
builders, and businesses. She is a graduate of the University of Texas with a BA in
Finance. She has held her Colorado managing broker license since 1999.
JENNIFER LUCE (Vice Chair) Senior Vice President, FirstBank of Littleton, a
commercial and consumer real estate lender with responsibilities including the
management and growth of our six Littleton/Highlands Ranch/Lone Tree locations
with combined assets exceeding $417 million and 60 employees. Jennifer's 10 year
career at FirstBank has also provided her the opportunity to work with many non-
profit organizations ranging from Junior Achievement, Clothes to Kids Denver and
Rebuilding Together in addition to currently sitting on the Board of Directors for
Littleton Immigration Integration Initiative, Colorado Community Land Trust, and
Chair of the Finance Committee for CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Denver.
MAURICE GOODGAINE (Secretary/Treasurer) has been involved in various
aspects of commercial business development, mixed-use urban project redevelopment,
commercial banking, and insurance. He has over 29 years of combined experience
spanning positions at Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Denver Urban
Renewal Authority, Heritage Bank, and Community Banks of Colorado. He is
currently an independent insurance broker at Insurance Town & Country. He has
also worked as a controller for a small privately owned manufacturing company. He
serves on several volunteer Boards including the Colorado Community Land Trust
Board.
GRACE BUCKLEY (Member at Large) has 30 years of experience in affordable
housing and community development, working in the non-profit and public sectors
At Mercy Housing she acquired and rehabilitated federally subsidized rental
housing. As Director of the Rocky Mountain office of a national non-profit
organization, known as “NeighborWorks”, she provided funding and technical
assistance to a network of local non-profit community development organizations.
She also served for 15 years as Director of Rental Housing Programs at the Colorado
Housing and Finance Authority. Early in her career, Grace managed neighborhood
development programs for the City of Denver. Grace has a Masters degree in Urban
Planning from the University of Colorado at Denver. She currently serves on the
boards of directors of the Colorado Community Land Trust and the Mercy Loan
Fund.
DEREK CAMUNEZ (Member at Large) , Managing Broker / Owner of RE/MAX
Avenues located in The Promenade at Lowry, is currently serving his third term
with the CCLT. Mr. Camunez has been in the real estate industry for over 26 years
and is a past President of The Denver Board of Realtors®. Derek also serves on the
Lowry Redevelopment Authority as a Mayoral appointee to the Board of Directors.
In addition to his work on the CCLT and the LRA, Derek also devotes his time to
The Colorado Association of Realtors, where he has served as past chair of the
Professional Standards Committee. He has also served on the Mayor’s Task Force on
Affordable Housing, as well as a Director for The Lowry Town Center Merchant’s
Association. Derek lives in the Lowry community, and is proud of his association to
the area and its residents.
DAVID HERLINGER (Member at Large) has built an entire career upon a
commitment to the development and provision of housing. He served for 23 years as
Executive Director of the Colorado Housing & Finance Authority, a group whose
mission is to expand business and affordable housing opportunities statewide. He
left the organization in 2001, having originally joined in 1974 as the Director of
Housing Operations. Prior to his arrival at CHFA, Mr. Herlinger was Executive
Director of Colorado Housing, Inc.’s Rural Housing Development, Director of the
Community Development Division of the Denver Metro Housing Center, and a staff
member at ACTION Housing, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA. Mr. Herlinger holds a master’
s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Colorado and is an
extremely active member of both the local and national housing and development
communities.
MARIAM J. MASID, J.D., Ph.D. (Member at Large) Mariam J. Masid is the Director
of Legal Services for the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority. Prior to her
current position, beginning in December 2005, Ms. Masid served the Authority as an
in-house Senior Attorney. Ms. Masid is a graduate of the University of Nebraska
College of Law and also earned a Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Earth
Sciences, Water Resource Management. She has over 30 years’ experience in private
practice and as in-house counsel in the areas of real estate, mortgage finance,
municipal law, litigation, and general civil matters. Prior to joining the Authority,
Ms. Masid was an adjunct professor at Colorado State University teaching real estate
law, real estate principles and business law.
LOUISE NEINNEMAN (Member at Large) has been a residential Realtor since 2001,
and is currently a Broker Associate with Perry & Co, one of Denver’s oldest
independently owned real estate firms. Prior to joining Perry & Co in 2010, Ms.
Ninneman was a Broker/Owner and served as the Managing Director for Re/Max of
Cherry Creek. She works all over the Denver metro area, but specializes in the
central Denver neighborhoods where she has lived for the past 25 years. Before
starting her busy real estate practice, Ms. Ninneman had a long career in the field of
leadership development and community-based problem solving & collaboration.
From 1991 to 2001 and again in 2009, she directed the Denver Community
Leadership Forum, (DCLF), an annual year-long program housed at the School of
Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD). DCLF seeks to bring
together groups of emerging leaders drawn equally from the public, private and
community/nonprofit sectors to focus on developing the collaborative problem
solving and consensus building skills required of today's community leaders. DCLF
celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009, and is one of the oldest community
leadership programs in the country. In addition to directing DCLF, Ms. Ninneman
consulted on projects all over the state of Colorado that included facilitation,
strategic planning, leadership development, mediation, consensus building,
community problem solving and capacity building, program development, policy
analysis, and research. The core of her work usually involved the design and
facilitation of strategic planning processes related to long-term organizational or
community change efforts.
JEFF SEIFRIED (Member at Large) has been Executive Director of Mile High
Community Loan Fund, a Denver-based nonprofit community development
financial institution, since June 2006. Jeff leads the organization’s effort to attract
new investors, implement MHCLF’s strategic growth plan, promote MHCLF’s
products to affordable housing developers and other non profit community based
organizations and ensure the financial security and integrity of the $10 million
Fund. Jeff has led the organization’s efforts to increase loan volume, expand the
market area served, build new partnerships, and better serve the financing needs of
nonprofit community facilities developers. Prior to joining MHCLF, Jeff worked as
the Urban Renewal Division Manager and the Small Business Development
Coordinator for the City of Aurora, Colorado. He developed and managed two
small business loan programs, negotiated redevelopment agreements and incentives
for commercial and affordable housing projects and implemented strategies for
redevelopment in two urban renewal project areas. He also re-established the Small
Business Developmental Center at Red Rocks Community College and managed the
distribution of Federal workforce training monies to colleges, school districts and
community-based organizations. Jeff holds a Master’s degree in Public
Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver and a Bachelor’s degree
from the University of Pittsburgh.
SUZANNE SUGALSKI (Member at Large) Resident of CCLT’s Maple Park, holds a
BA in Economics and Business Administration with graduate work in Psychology
and Accounting. As the Director of Outreach at the Housing Crisis Center in Texas
where she organized weekly workshops for homeless women, trained volunteers,
wrote grants and directed all aspects of public relations. She took all of this
experience to the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas as Program Director where she
raised $500,000 to sustain the Eldercare Program. She won the 1995 Award for
Excellence in Human Services Programming from the Community Council of
Greater Dallas and received national recognition on ABC World New Tonight for
the Eldercare Program. As the Coalition Manager of the Greater Dallas Council on
Alcohol and Drugs Abuse, Suzanne mobilized community leaders and volunteers to
reduce underage drinking, planned organized and implemented substance abuse
conferences and initiated a major campaign to educate parents about the harmful
effects of underage drinking. She moved to Denver about five years ago, was the
President of the Maple Park Townhome Homeowners Association from ’05-’06 and is
currently on the CCLT Board of Directors.
the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners, one of the largest land owners in
the State of Colorado. The mission of the Land Board is to provide reasonable and
consistent revenue over time to the School Trust. This trust was established for the
distinct funding and management of School Trust land assets established at
Colorado’s original land grant. Julie works on the commercial real estate assets that
the trust manages, including vertical office property along the front range,
development parcels in the metro area, and cell tower sites throughout Colorado.
In the past, Julie was actively involved in planning and marketing two high-profile
mixed-use master- planned communities in the Denver area, one known as the
Lowry Redevelopment area. Julie’s role was extensive and hands-on, with the
multitude of disciplines and decisions required to bring these communities to
market. While at Lowry, Julie was involved in the development of the affordable
housing portfolio and worked with the general contractor to complete the required
units. Julie has been orchestrating land sales transactions of various types of land
holdings for over 15 years, including multi-family, commercial, and SF attached and
detached. With success, she orchestrated over 30 builders and 20 multi-level land
transactions. Julie has been in the Denver real estate market for over 20 years ,
initially working in the finance arena and then as a Senior Asset Manager for
distressed asset work-outs, where she successfully directed the management and
disposition of $50 million dollars of non-performing real estate loans and REO that
included apartments, office, retail, industrial, land and residential. Julie has many
long-term relationships in the Denver area, with Realtor’s, bankers, developers,
builders, and businesses. She is a graduate of the University of Texas with a BA in
Finance. She has held her Colorado managing broker license since 1999.
JENNIFER LUCE (Vice Chair) Senior Vice President, FirstBank of Littleton, a
commercial and consumer real estate lender with responsibilities including the
management and growth of our six Littleton/Highlands Ranch/Lone Tree locations
with combined assets exceeding $417 million and 60 employees. Jennifer's 10 year
career at FirstBank has also provided her the opportunity to work with many non-
profit organizations ranging from Junior Achievement, Clothes to Kids Denver and
Rebuilding Together in addition to currently sitting on the Board of Directors for
Littleton Immigration Integration Initiative, Colorado Community Land Trust, and
Chair of the Finance Committee for CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Denver.
MAURICE GOODGAINE (Secretary/Treasurer) has been involved in various
aspects of commercial business development, mixed-use urban project redevelopment,
commercial banking, and insurance. He has over 29 years of combined experience
spanning positions at Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Denver Urban
Renewal Authority, Heritage Bank, and Community Banks of Colorado. He is
currently an independent insurance broker at Insurance Town & Country. He has
also worked as a controller for a small privately owned manufacturing company. He
serves on several volunteer Boards including the Colorado Community Land Trust
Board.
GRACE BUCKLEY (Member at Large) has 30 years of experience in affordable
housing and community development, working in the non-profit and public sectors
At Mercy Housing she acquired and rehabilitated federally subsidized rental
housing. As Director of the Rocky Mountain office of a national non-profit
organization, known as “NeighborWorks”, she provided funding and technical
assistance to a network of local non-profit community development organizations.
She also served for 15 years as Director of Rental Housing Programs at the Colorado
Housing and Finance Authority. Early in her career, Grace managed neighborhood
development programs for the City of Denver. Grace has a Masters degree in Urban
Planning from the University of Colorado at Denver. She currently serves on the
boards of directors of the Colorado Community Land Trust and the Mercy Loan
Fund.
DEREK CAMUNEZ (Member at Large) , Managing Broker / Owner of RE/MAX
Avenues located in The Promenade at Lowry, is currently serving his third term
with the CCLT. Mr. Camunez has been in the real estate industry for over 26 years
and is a past President of The Denver Board of Realtors®. Derek also serves on the
Lowry Redevelopment Authority as a Mayoral appointee to the Board of Directors.
In addition to his work on the CCLT and the LRA, Derek also devotes his time to
The Colorado Association of Realtors, where he has served as past chair of the
Professional Standards Committee. He has also served on the Mayor’s Task Force on
Affordable Housing, as well as a Director for The Lowry Town Center Merchant’s
Association. Derek lives in the Lowry community, and is proud of his association to
the area and its residents.
DAVID HERLINGER (Member at Large) has built an entire career upon a
commitment to the development and provision of housing. He served for 23 years as
Executive Director of the Colorado Housing & Finance Authority, a group whose
mission is to expand business and affordable housing opportunities statewide. He
left the organization in 2001, having originally joined in 1974 as the Director of
Housing Operations. Prior to his arrival at CHFA, Mr. Herlinger was Executive
Director of Colorado Housing, Inc.’s Rural Housing Development, Director of the
Community Development Division of the Denver Metro Housing Center, and a staff
member at ACTION Housing, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA. Mr. Herlinger holds a master’
s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Colorado and is an
extremely active member of both the local and national housing and development
communities.
MARIAM J. MASID, J.D., Ph.D. (Member at Large) Mariam J. Masid is the Director
of Legal Services for the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority. Prior to her
current position, beginning in December 2005, Ms. Masid served the Authority as an
in-house Senior Attorney. Ms. Masid is a graduate of the University of Nebraska
College of Law and also earned a Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Earth
Sciences, Water Resource Management. She has over 30 years’ experience in private
practice and as in-house counsel in the areas of real estate, mortgage finance,
municipal law, litigation, and general civil matters. Prior to joining the Authority,
Ms. Masid was an adjunct professor at Colorado State University teaching real estate
law, real estate principles and business law.
LOUISE NEINNEMAN (Member at Large) has been a residential Realtor since 2001,
and is currently a Broker Associate with Perry & Co, one of Denver’s oldest
independently owned real estate firms. Prior to joining Perry & Co in 2010, Ms.
Ninneman was a Broker/Owner and served as the Managing Director for Re/Max of
Cherry Creek. She works all over the Denver metro area, but specializes in the
central Denver neighborhoods where she has lived for the past 25 years. Before
starting her busy real estate practice, Ms. Ninneman had a long career in the field of
leadership development and community-based problem solving & collaboration.
From 1991 to 2001 and again in 2009, she directed the Denver Community
Leadership Forum, (DCLF), an annual year-long program housed at the School of
Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD). DCLF seeks to bring
together groups of emerging leaders drawn equally from the public, private and
community/nonprofit sectors to focus on developing the collaborative problem
solving and consensus building skills required of today's community leaders. DCLF
celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009, and is one of the oldest community
leadership programs in the country. In addition to directing DCLF, Ms. Ninneman
consulted on projects all over the state of Colorado that included facilitation,
strategic planning, leadership development, mediation, consensus building,
community problem solving and capacity building, program development, policy
analysis, and research. The core of her work usually involved the design and
facilitation of strategic planning processes related to long-term organizational or
community change efforts.
JEFF SEIFRIED (Member at Large) has been Executive Director of Mile High
Community Loan Fund, a Denver-based nonprofit community development
financial institution, since June 2006. Jeff leads the organization’s effort to attract
new investors, implement MHCLF’s strategic growth plan, promote MHCLF’s
products to affordable housing developers and other non profit community based
organizations and ensure the financial security and integrity of the $10 million
Fund. Jeff has led the organization’s efforts to increase loan volume, expand the
market area served, build new partnerships, and better serve the financing needs of
nonprofit community facilities developers. Prior to joining MHCLF, Jeff worked as
the Urban Renewal Division Manager and the Small Business Development
Coordinator for the City of Aurora, Colorado. He developed and managed two
small business loan programs, negotiated redevelopment agreements and incentives
for commercial and affordable housing projects and implemented strategies for
redevelopment in two urban renewal project areas. He also re-established the Small
Business Developmental Center at Red Rocks Community College and managed the
distribution of Federal workforce training monies to colleges, school districts and
community-based organizations. Jeff holds a Master’s degree in Public
Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver and a Bachelor’s degree
from the University of Pittsburgh.
SUZANNE SUGALSKI (Member at Large) Resident of CCLT’s Maple Park, holds a
BA in Economics and Business Administration with graduate work in Psychology
and Accounting. As the Director of Outreach at the Housing Crisis Center in Texas
where she organized weekly workshops for homeless women, trained volunteers,
wrote grants and directed all aspects of public relations. She took all of this
experience to the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas as Program Director where she
raised $500,000 to sustain the Eldercare Program. She won the 1995 Award for
Excellence in Human Services Programming from the Community Council of
Greater Dallas and received national recognition on ABC World New Tonight for
the Eldercare Program. As the Coalition Manager of the Greater Dallas Council on
Alcohol and Drugs Abuse, Suzanne mobilized community leaders and volunteers to
reduce underage drinking, planned organized and implemented substance abuse
conferences and initiated a major campaign to educate parents about the harmful
effects of underage drinking. She moved to Denver about five years ago, was the
President of the Maple Park Townhome Homeowners Association from ’05-’06 and is
currently on the CCLT Board of Directors.
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