Irvin M. Henderson was elected to NTCIC’s Board in 2002 and is our immediate past Chairman. He is President of Irvin M. Henderson & Co., a development and consulting firm with expertise in community development finance and capital structure, collaboration and community involvement, community reinvestment and project design and management. He has developed or assisted in the development of a substantial number of projects in affordable housing, commercial development and enterprise development. Mr. Henderson holds extensive leadership roles including; managing partner and principal for Historic District Developers, the Finance and Audit Chair for the National Main Street Center, an Advisory Board Member for the CDE, Central States and a member of the Board of Directors of Preservation NC. As the Chair of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and as a director for many state and national concerns, Mr. Henderson has consulted with and/or presented to community-based organizations and leaders, presidents, heads of state and federal agencies on these subjects.

Bruce Block was elected to NTCIC’s board in 2008. He is a former shareholder of and presently of counsel to the law firm Reinhart. He served as chair of the firm’s Real Estate Department for twelve years and served on the firm’s Board of Directors for eighteen years. An active member of the community, Bruce served on the boards of the Froedtert Health System and Turner Hall Preservation Trust and is a current member of the Milwaukee Riverwalk board.

He is past president of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation, current chair of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Real Estate Foundation, a member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, a trustee of the Wisconsin Policy Forum, a former member of the Board of Curators of the Wisconsin Historical Society, past president of the Wisconsin Historical Foundation, a member of the Wisconsin Historic Preservation Review Board and president of the Wisconsin Preservation Fund. Additionally, Bruce has served his profession in a number of capacities, including eight years as a board member and chair of the Construction and Public Law section of the Wisconsin State Bar and a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers since 1992. Bruce is a frequent speaker on real estate matters, land use, zoning and tax incremental financing. Bruce graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 and from the Boston University School of Law in 1979.

Abigail is an advisor of NTCIC and serves on the company’s Investment Committee. She is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Elevate Energy, located in Chicago, Illinois. In this role, she oversees Elevate’s strategy for developing new programs nationwide, including energy efficiency, solar, and planning. Prior to this role, she served as Chief Program Officer and Director of New Market Initiatives, and she was responsible for expanding Elevate’s affordable multifamily energy efficiency programs into new markets outside of the Chicago region, including Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Oregon.

Prior to joining Elevate Energy in 2012, Abigail was a Managing Director at the Delta Institute, where, with her Delta Institute colleagues, she developed processes and methods that allow companies to incorporate local eco-system issues into corporate policies in a way that increases environmental stewardship and achieves environmental improvement.

Terrian C. Barnes was elected to the Board of the National Trust Community Investment Corporation in 2002. She is co-founder of Fe-smart LLC. Previously, she was the Chief Diversity Officer at Yum! Brands (parent of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell), a role she created and held for 14 years. In this capacity, Ms. Barnes was the business partner responsible for leading an enterprise-wide strategy to drive organizational goals through multicultural marketing, optimizing diverse talent, and minority and women’s business development. Prior to joining Yum!, as the International Franchise Association’s Public Affairs Group vice president, Ms. Barnes crafted forward-looking, innovative economic development strategies for under-served markets. Black Enterprise Magazine named her as one of 2011’s Top Executives in Diversity. Ms. Barnes is a graduate of Windham College.

Mtamanika Youngblood is a nationally recognized community development practitioner and a strong proponent of equitable development, sustainability, and cultural and historic heritage as the model for addressing both the human and physical development needs of revitalizing communities.

Ms. Youngblood is the Chair Emeritus and the founding Board Chair of Sweet Auburn Works (SAW), a nonprofit organization supported by a broad range of stakeholders committed to the revitalization of the Sweet Auburn commercial corridor that preserves its history and legacy. Modeled after the successful national Main Street program, SAW uses historic preservation and economic development as the driving force behind its work.

Ms. Youngblood is the Chair Emeritus and past President & CEO of the Historic District Development Corporation (HDDC) the non-profit, community-based development organization that led the revitalization of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District and subsequently, Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward. HDDC’s neighborhood revitalization efforts are based on historic preservation, economic diversity and the non-displacement of existing residents. Its goal is to reestablish the mixed-income residential and commercial community that once thrived around “Sweet Auburn” Avenue and the childhood home of Martin Luther King, Jr.

She is the founder and past President and CEO of The Center for Working Families, Inc., a nonprofit organization created by the Annie E Casey Foundation to advance its family and neighborhood strengthening work. Previously, Ms. Youngblood became the first Senior Vice President for Community Impact at United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta.

Ms. Youngblood has been widely acknowledged for her work. Awards and recognition have come from The National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Atlanta Urban Design Commission, Central Atlanta Progress, the Georgia Association of the American Institute of Architects, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Magazine, the State of Georgia Affordable Housing Division, the National Neighborhood Coalition and the National Community Land Trust Network.

In addition to Sweet Auburn Works and HDDC, Ms. Youngblood is a Trustee Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a member of the National Advisory Council for the African American Heritage Action Fund. She has served on various boards, including the Partnership for Southern Equity, the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, United Way, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Center for Working Families. Additionally, she has served as a member of the Fulton County Arts Council, the City of Atlanta Public Art Advisory Committee and the Technical Review Panel for the Housing and Transportation Affordability Index for HUD’s Office for Sustainable Housing and Communities.

Ms. Youngblood earned a BA from New York University and an MBA from Atlanta University. She was a Fellow to the Kennedy School of Government Executive Program at Harvard University, an Inner City Fellow for the Urban Land Institute and a James A. Johnson Community Fellow of the Fannie Mae Foundation.

Michael Pokorny, CEO of Maryland Community Investment Corporation, is a public and private sector leader with 20 years of experience in economic development, affordable housing policy, and public-private finance strategies. Currently working as the leader of Maryland’s state-sponsored CDE, Michael brings a unique viewpoint on funding strategies for a broad range of project types and organizations. His experience is focused on the partnerships and strategies of government, philanthropy, and market sources.

Melissa McDonald, Chief People & Operations Officer at Raza Development Fund, is responsible for the operations of all lending components and systems, capitalization strategies, investment management, and new product development.  Ms. McDonald assumed her current role in October 2018, having previously served as RDF’s Deputy Chief Investment Officer, where she led the Specialty Finance Team – an inter-disciplinary group of impact investment professionals that provide custom-tailored financing solutions for complex structured transactions involving public/private partnerships, traditional debt, grant capital, and/or tax credit financing, nationwide and was responsible for RDF’s New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) platform to include the deployment of over $200 million in NMTC authority.

Prior to joining the fund in 2012, Ms. McDonald worked at Gannett Company, where she held senior management positions in Human Resources, providing local and regional support for union and non-union employees.  She is experienced in policy and procedure development, employee relations, compliance management, compensation, and organizational development.

Ms. McDonald earned a bachelor’s degree in Multi-Disciplinary Studies from the University of Texas at El Paso and received a Juris Doctor from Michigan State University School of Law.  She is also a graduate of Southern Methodist University’s Cox Executive Development Program and Stanford’s University Graduate School of Business, the Emerging COO:  Driving Innovation and Operational Excellence.

Tom Mayes is Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He has written and spoken widely on preservation law, the underlying purposes of historic preservation, and the future of preservation. For many years, he taught historic preservation law at the University of Maryland. Mr. Mayes is the National Trust’s representative on the boards of the Montpelier Foundation and Main Street America and serves as a member of the historic preservation commission in Shepherdstown, WV. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize in Historic Preservation in 2013, Mr. Mayes is the author of Why Old Places Matter (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018).  Mr. Mayes received his B.A. with honors in History in 1981 and his J.D. in 1985 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University.