SPEAKERS & SCHEDULE
E. Kim Coontz
E. Kim Coontz was actively involved in starting the California Center for Cooperative Development and has served as its Executive Director since its inception. She has been working with cooperative enterprises for more than 20 years. For 4 years she was Executive Director of Yolo Mutual Housing Association, a nonprofit developer of cooperatively-governed affordable housing in Davis, CA. For more than 14 years she was academic coordinator for the Center for Cooperatives at the University of California at Davis (prior to its closure in 2004). In this capacity she was active in the start-up of cooperatives, in teaching cooperative board governance seminars, conducting research, directing a cooperative education program, and in administering and coordinating grants. She has authored and co-authored more than 10 publications about cooperatives and written numerous articles. In 2004 she was awarded Author of the Year by the National Association of Housing Cooperatives.
Allan Heskin
Allan David Heskin LLB, Ph.D, former Legal Services attorney, chair of the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA and currently a Professor Emeritus has studied, taught and written about, helped develop, and lived in housing cooperatives for over 25 years. He is author of two books on housing cooperatives: The Hidden History of Housing Cooperatives and The Struggle for Community and numerous articles on the subject. He has been directly involved with housing cooperatives and other forms of resident-controlled housing developed in state surplus property, slum buildings, and HUD expiring-use properties. He has studied and advised developers, and helped train residents of new-construction cooperatives and conversions from rental property. Some of these cooperatives involved direct federal subsidies and others employed tax credits. While most of his work has been about California housing cooperatives, his academic publications have looked at housing cooperatives around the world.
Rick Lewis
Rick Lewis has nineteen years of experience in housing development, specializing in the development and support of housing cooperatives. He has served as a Berkeley commissioner for the Redevelopment Project Area Commission, the Housing Advisory Commission, and the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Board, and on the San Francisco Community Land Trust Task Force. He has served on the Boards of the San Francisco Community Land Trust and the Bay Area Community Land Trust. He lives in a co-op that he helped form 24 years ago and has a Master’s degree in City Planning from UC Berkeley.
Margaret Lund
Margaret Lund is currently a private consultant specializing in innovative community development , small business assistance and cooperative housing development. For more than 16 years Margaret was Executive Director of the Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund (NCDF), a community loan fund and multi-faceted development organization for cooperatives of all sectors across the Upper Midwest. She is a past member of the board of the National Cooperative Business Association, the Opportunity Finance Network, and the Rondo Community Land Trust, and spent 12 years on the loan and grant committee of the Minnesota Housing Partnership, a statewide organization dedicated to affordable housing. Ms. Lund was also recently elected for a third term on the board of Health Partners, a major Minnesota health care organization with roots in the cooperative movement where she serves as Treasurer. A nationally recognized expert in the field of cooperative development finance, Ms. Lund has been featured as a speaker, trainer and panelist for a number of organizations including the National Association of Housing Cooperatives, the National Cooperative Business Association, the Consumer Cooperative Managers Association, the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, the Opportunity Finance Network, the Meredith Institute for Resident-Owned Communities, the Minnesota Council of Non-Profits, and the Minneapolis Urban League.
Tracy Parent
Tracy Parent is a Senior Community Investment Consultant with the Affordable Housing Program of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. She is also the President of the San Francisco Community Land Trust, which converts multi-family rental buildings into housing cooperatives, while the land remains held by the land trust. With more than 15 years of experience working with community development issues locally and internationally, Tracy specializes in housing finance, homeownership education, and nonprofit management. Tracy holds a California real estate license and has a Master's degree in Public Administration. She lives in Oakland, CA.
Karen Tiedemann
Karen Tiedemann, A.D., J.D., M.C.P., is a partner in Goldfarb and Lipman LLP with an emphasis of practice in affordable housing, redevelopment and environmental law. She has special expertise on both stock and limited equity cooperative housing structures, as well as with co-housing communities. Ms. Tiedemann is co-author of Between the Lines: A Question & Answer Guide On Legal Issues In Supportive Housing and A Legal Guide to California Redevelopment.
Resident Representative
Representatives of housing cooperatives in the area will share their perspectives as a resident members cooperatives.
E. Kim Coontz was actively involved in starting the California Center for Cooperative Development and has served as its Executive Director since its inception. She has been working with cooperative enterprises for more than 20 years. For 4 years she was Executive Director of Yolo Mutual Housing Association, a nonprofit developer of cooperatively-governed affordable housing in Davis, CA. For more than 14 years she was academic coordinator for the Center for Cooperatives at the University of California at Davis (prior to its closure in 2004). In this capacity she was active in the start-up of cooperatives, in teaching cooperative board governance seminars, conducting research, directing a cooperative education program, and in administering and coordinating grants. She has authored and co-authored more than 10 publications about cooperatives and written numerous articles. In 2004 she was awarded Author of the Year by the National Association of Housing Cooperatives.
Allan Heskin
Allan David Heskin LLB, Ph.D, former Legal Services attorney, chair of the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA and currently a Professor Emeritus has studied, taught and written about, helped develop, and lived in housing cooperatives for over 25 years. He is author of two books on housing cooperatives: The Hidden History of Housing Cooperatives and The Struggle for Community and numerous articles on the subject. He has been directly involved with housing cooperatives and other forms of resident-controlled housing developed in state surplus property, slum buildings, and HUD expiring-use properties. He has studied and advised developers, and helped train residents of new-construction cooperatives and conversions from rental property. Some of these cooperatives involved direct federal subsidies and others employed tax credits. While most of his work has been about California housing cooperatives, his academic publications have looked at housing cooperatives around the world.
Rick Lewis
Rick Lewis has nineteen years of experience in housing development, specializing in the development and support of housing cooperatives. He has served as a Berkeley commissioner for the Redevelopment Project Area Commission, the Housing Advisory Commission, and the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Board, and on the San Francisco Community Land Trust Task Force. He has served on the Boards of the San Francisco Community Land Trust and the Bay Area Community Land Trust. He lives in a co-op that he helped form 24 years ago and has a Master’s degree in City Planning from UC Berkeley.
Margaret Lund
Margaret Lund is currently a private consultant specializing in innovative community development , small business assistance and cooperative housing development. For more than 16 years Margaret was Executive Director of the Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund (NCDF), a community loan fund and multi-faceted development organization for cooperatives of all sectors across the Upper Midwest. She is a past member of the board of the National Cooperative Business Association, the Opportunity Finance Network, and the Rondo Community Land Trust, and spent 12 years on the loan and grant committee of the Minnesota Housing Partnership, a statewide organization dedicated to affordable housing. Ms. Lund was also recently elected for a third term on the board of Health Partners, a major Minnesota health care organization with roots in the cooperative movement where she serves as Treasurer. A nationally recognized expert in the field of cooperative development finance, Ms. Lund has been featured as a speaker, trainer and panelist for a number of organizations including the National Association of Housing Cooperatives, the National Cooperative Business Association, the Consumer Cooperative Managers Association, the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, the Opportunity Finance Network, the Meredith Institute for Resident-Owned Communities, the Minnesota Council of Non-Profits, and the Minneapolis Urban League.
Tracy Parent
Tracy Parent is a Senior Community Investment Consultant with the Affordable Housing Program of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. She is also the President of the San Francisco Community Land Trust, which converts multi-family rental buildings into housing cooperatives, while the land remains held by the land trust. With more than 15 years of experience working with community development issues locally and internationally, Tracy specializes in housing finance, homeownership education, and nonprofit management. Tracy holds a California real estate license and has a Master's degree in Public Administration. She lives in Oakland, CA.
Karen Tiedemann
Karen Tiedemann, A.D., J.D., M.C.P., is a partner in Goldfarb and Lipman LLP with an emphasis of practice in affordable housing, redevelopment and environmental law. She has special expertise on both stock and limited equity cooperative housing structures, as well as with co-housing communities. Ms. Tiedemann is co-author of Between the Lines: A Question & Answer Guide On Legal Issues In Supportive Housing and A Legal Guide to California Redevelopment.
Resident Representative
Representatives of housing cooperatives in the area will share their perspectives as a resident members cooperatives.