
Kimberly Driggins
Kimberly Driggins is the Chief Executive Officer of the Washington Housing Conservancy. Ms. Driggins has an extensive background in urban planning and real estate development and prior to her appointment at WHC, she served as Director of Strategic Planning/Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit’s Planning and Development Department for three years. Ms. Driggins also served as Associate Director for Citywide Planning for the District of Columbia’s Office of Planning from 2008-2015.
Ms. Driggins is a nationally recognized expert in urban redevelopment and placemaking and has innovative projects in both Detroit and Washington, DC. She currently serves as the Board Chair for the National Landing Business Improvement District (BID). She has also served on the Board of Directors for Project for Public Spaces, PennPraxis, and Gehl Institute. She has a BA degree from Hampton University, and an MPP from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Ms. Driggins was awarded the prestigious Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015.
Board
Members
WHC is governed by an independent board of civic leaders.

Joshua Bernstein
CEO, Bernstein Management Corporation

Kevin Clinton
Board Chair
Chief Program Officer, Federal City Council

Carol Thompson Cole
President + CEO, Youth Invest Partners

Kimberly Driggins
Chief Executive Officer, WHC
Maria S. Gomez
Former President + CEO, Mary’s Center

Cary Hatch
Former Senior Counsel, Hart Inc. & CEO, MDB Communications

Charlene Drew Jarvis
Former Director, National Women's Business Center, Inc.

Mark Joseph
Founding Director, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities (NIMC)

David Martin
Partner, ArentFox Schiff
David Roodberg
CEO, DJR Assoc.

Deborah Ratner Salzberg
Principal, Uplands Real Estate Partners
Eshauna Smith
Director of Community Impact, Ballmer Group

Aakash Thakkar
Chief Acquisitions Officer, EYA, LLC

Trevor Brown
Senior Partner, New Profit

Rob Stewart
Board Emeritus
Chair, JBG SMITH’s Board of Trustees
Our Team
Kimberly Driggins
Chief Executive Officer
Destiny Delaware
Social Impact Program Manager
Jackie Keller
Office Manager & Executive Assistant
Yvette Ross Kane
Director of Asset Management
Kathy Smith
Director of Development
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
The Washington Housing Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your investment helps us expand our work. Your gift is 100% tax-deductible. EIN 83-1866109


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