Leadership

Stand 4 Count was founded by Kevin, who has over 30 years of experience managing the financing and development of affordable housing projects serving communities across the U.S. He has urban and rural experience throughout the country working in multi-cultural and interfaith environments. He has extensive experience using Low Income Income Housing Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits, and a variety of public and private sources of financing.

Kevin started his career at the Institute for Community Economics in 1990 – an intentional community of Catholic Workers and professionals promoting the community land trust concept of affordable housing. He worked alongside Jesuit and Lutheran church partners at the North Camden Land Trust and was an adjunct faculty member in the Rutgers University Department of Urban Studies in Camden, NJ. He collaborated closely with Sisters of Mercy to help found the first mobile home park land trust in the mountains of North Carolina where he was instrumental in securing acquisition financing and stewarding operations.

Kevin has provided strategic planning services to local start-up efforts in the prison and jail reentry housing space. He has made presentations to local citizen action groups on "HOUSING, COMMUNITY, TRANSFORMATION: Responding Locally to the challenges of housing persons reentering from incarceration.” Stand 4 Count is a new organizing effort that brings the community together to address the housing needs and other issues caused by mass incarceration.

Kevin holds a Master of City and Regional Planning degree from Rutgers University, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree from SUNY-Geneseo, and completed three full core semesters in Construction Management and Engineering Science at Western Carolina University.