ReVisioning Housing

Tomás Rivera

executive director, chainbreaker collective

Tomás is the Executive Director of Chainbreaker Collective and has been with the organization since its founding in 2004. Chainbreaker is a membership-led economic and environmental justice organization with over 700 dues-paying members in Santa Fe, NM, the bulk of whom are residents of neighborhoods experiencing disinvestment, and are vulnerable to gentrification and eviction. Chainbreaker organizes front-line community members directly impacted by housing, transit and civil rights issues to make Santa Fe a more equitable city.  

resource: Chainbreaker's Evictions in the COVID Era Reports 1 & 2

Jennifer L. Jenkins

Principal, Jenkinsgavin

Jennifer holds a degree in International Business from the University of Texas at Austin. A career in mortgage finance led her to a position as Vice President of a regional construction and development firm, and later, taking the helm of her own land use consulting firm. At JenkinsGavin, she makes key planning, management and entitlement contributions to many high profile real estate developments. She is President of the Board of the Regional Development Corporation and serves on the Board of the Santa Fe Railyard Park Conservancy.

Joel Mills

Senior Director, AIA Center for communities by design

Joel is Senior Director of the American Institute of Architects’ Center for Communities by Design. The Center is a leading provider of pro bono technical assistance for community success. Joel has delivered consultative services to hundreds of communities around the world. His career has been focused on strengthening civic capacity, public processes and institutions. He has served on dozens of working groups, boards, juries, and panels focused on civic discourse and participation, sustainability, and democracy. Joel was a founding Board Member of the International Association for Public Participation’s United States Chapter. He has spoken at numerous international conferences concerning democratic urbanism and the role of democracy in urban success, including serving as the Co-Convener of the Remaking Cities Congress in 2013. Joel is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism in London, UK. He is the author of numerous articles on the relationship between democracy, civic capacity and community.

Drew Finke

associate, opticos

Drew’s research-based approach to problem solving and attention to detail bring conceptual and graphic clarity to planning, urban design, and architecture projects at Opticos Design in Berkeley, California where he is an Associate. Drawing on his architectural education, he seeks to sustain and strengthen local culture through thoughtful, community-driven design and policies that reinforce a community’s unique sense of place. Since joining Opticos in 2013, Drew has applied this sensibility to impactful projects in a broad range of places, from an award-winning place-based comprehensive plan for the City of Memphis, Tennessee, to a contextually-sensitive form-based code for rural Kaua'i County in Hawai'i, and a conceptual site plan for an Affordable Missing Middle Housing neighborhood in Mammoth Lakes, California.

resource: Missing Middle Housing