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Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e1eff978b8715ce17c1091/4e947b12-669b-4522-bf86-73d230850389/unsplash-image-WHrBWOnfypI.jpg Our Team - Our Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e1eff978b8715ce17c1091/612eb4e8-c4fb-4d83-9152-b0f0279fca18/frank.jpg Our Team - Frank S. Alexander Chair and Executive Director Sam Nunn Professor of Law, Emeritus, Emory Law Co-founder & Senior Advisor, Center for Community Progress Founder, Vulnerable Communities Initiative, Inc. Frank.Alexander@Emory.edu Frank S. Alexander is the Sam Nunn Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Emory University School of Law, where he was the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He has served as Interim Dean of the Law School (2005-2006), and as Visiting Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University (2007). His courses include Property, Real Estate Finance, State and Local Government Law, Law and Theology, and Federal Housing Policies. He is the author of over seventy-five publications in the fields of real estate finance, law and theology, and community development. Professor Alexander's work in recent years has focused on community development and affordable housing. He is the Co-founder and Senior Advisor of the Center for Community Progress, a national nonprofit entity that provides technical assistance to local and state governments in the conversion of vacant and abandoned properties into productive uses. He has served as the principal draftsman for legislation adopted in fifteen different states on vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties, affordable housing, and land banking. From 1993 to 1996, he served as a Fellow of the Carter Center of Emory University, specializing in neighborhood redevelopment activities and low-income housing in conjunction with The Atlanta Project. He served as a Commissioner of the Georgia Housing Trust Fund for the Homeless from 1994-98. He has testified twice before Congressional Committees on strategies to address the mortgage foreclosure crisis (2008, 2009). Professor Alexander received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Master’s in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e1eff978b8715ce17c1091/e60f6559-f283-458b-b29a-a3886ac9333d/IMG_3545.jpg Our Team - Stephanie Earl Director of Finance and Research StephanieEarl4@gmail.com Stephanie has over a decade of experience in non-profit management, accounting, project management, and client relations. She received her Master’s degree in Public Policy in Spring 2019, which included a two-year research assistantship and co-authoring three publications. Since her graduation she has worked with the Vulnerable Coastal Communities Initiative, now VCI, with lead responsibilities for empirical data analysis, index creation, and GIS mapping. She has presented her analysis at the 2019 Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference in Atlanta, GA and the 2021 Georgia DNR Climate Conference. Prior to and throughout her graduate work Stephanie served as financial director at the Atlanta Birth Center. She now serves as the finance and contracts manager at data.org, a non-profit building the field of data science for social impact. Below are a sampling of her co-authored publications: Immergluck, D., Ernsthausen, J., Earl, S., & Powell, A. (2020). Evictions, large owners, and serial filings: Findings from Atlanta. Housing Studies, 35(5), 903-924. (available here https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02673037.2019.1639635). Harrison, A., Immergluck, D., Ernsthausen, J., & Earl, S. (2021). Housing stability, evictions, and subsidized rental properties: Evidence from Metro Atlanta, Georgia. Housing Policy Debate, 31(3-5), 411-424. (available here https://www.nlihc.org/sites/default/files/HPD_Evictions_Atlanta.pdf). Immergluck, D., Earl, S., & Powell, A. (2019). Black homebuying after the Crisis: Appreciation patterns in fifteen large metropolitan areas. City & Community, 18(3), 983-1002. (available here https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cico.12436). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e1eff978b8715ce17c1091/c1f94119-1422-486b-b84a-f3c63e49595a/kim.jpg Our Team - Kim Graziani Vice Chair and Director of Strategic Initiatives kgraziani@gmail.com Kim Graziani is the President of Indigo Collaborative LLC, a national consulting firm dedicated to building trust and sharing power between local government and residents to equitably revitalize communities. Kim also serves as SeniorTechnical Assistance Advisor to the Center for Community Progress, a national nonprofit organization that works primarily with local governments, nonprofit organizations, and resident leaders to transform vacant and abandoned properties into community assets such as quality affordable housing. Since 2011, Kim helped create and lead the National Technical Assistance Program, serving over 300 communities in 35 states. She is considered one of the leading national experts in the equitable reuse of vacant and abandoned properties, utilizing tools such as delinquent property tax enforcement, housing and building code enforcement, and land banking. Prior to her national work, Kim served as the Director of Neighborhood Initiatives to the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was instrumental in developing and implementing innovative policies and strategies for the equitable reuse of vacant and abandoned properties that prioritized resident engagement, neighborhood preservation, and community wealth-building. Kim also has expertise in affordable housing and community organizing through her work with multiple community development corporations, private foundations, and social service agencies in Atlanta, New York City, and Pittsburgh. 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