Eshauna Smith

Eshauna Smith is the first national Director of Community Mobilization at the Ballmer Group. In this role, Eshauna will help to improve economic mobility and reduce racial disparities at scale through place-based partnerships, with a specific focus on building talent pipelines to accelerate progress. Eshauna has built a career that reflects her passion for supporting communities working to overcome systemic barriers to opportunity. She has focused on fostering cross sector collaboration, holding systems accountable, and delivering high-quality, data-driven services to improve equity, inclusion, and social outcomes. Prior to joining the Ballmer Group, Eshauna served for eight years as Chief Executive Officer/President of Urban Alliance, and as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education in Washington, DC. Eshauna has received numerous recognitions and awards for her leadership and advocacy work on behalf of youth and families, most recently being named a 2019 Murdoch Community Hero and a Women Who Mean Business honoree by the Washington Business Journal. Eshauna holds a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas, Austin, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley

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Members

WHC is governed by an independent board of civic leaders.

David Roodberg

President of The Menkiti Group

Joshua Bernstein

Chief Executive Officer of Bernstein Management Corporation

Charlene Drew Jarvis

Former Director at National Women's Business Center, Inc. 

Deborah Ratner Salzberg

Principal at Uplands Real Estate Partners

Cary Hatch

CEO of MDB Communications

Carol Thompson Cole

President and CEO of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP)

Rob Stewart

Chair of JBG SMITH’s Board of Trustees

John Gardner

Former Vice President of Buvermo Investments, Inc.

Tamara Copeland

Former President of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers

Kevin Clinton

Chief Program Officer for the Federal City Council

David Martin

Partner at ArentFox Schiff

Maria S. Gomez

Former President + CEO, Mary’s Center

Eshauna Smith

Director of Community Engagement, Ballmer Group

Our Team

Kimberly Driggins

Executive Director

Jackie Keller

Executive Assistant

Divya Khandke

Senior Program Manager

Yvette Ross Kane

Director of Asset Management

Richard Newman

General Counsel

Kathy Smith

Director of Development

Juanita Perilla

Social Impact Coordinator

Sawa Kamara

Social Impact Coordinator

Fusing commercial real estate expertise with a social impact mission.

We disrupt inequities in the housing market with an innovative model that prevents displacement and promotes opportunity and wealth building. 

Preserving housing affordability and promoting economic mobility in the DC-region

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