Board of Directors

Hope and a Home’s Board of Directors bring to bear a diversity of experience from nonprofit organizations, city government, and the private sector.

Oral Pottinger, Esq.
Chair
Partner, Mayer Brown, LLP

James Turner
Vice Chair
VP & Sr. Policy Counsel, Health IT Now Coalition

Kimberly Levine
Treasurer
Harbor Bank of Maryland

Shanti Abedin
Secretary
Director, Project Reinvest, Neighborworks America

Lynn C. French
Executive Director, Hope and a Home, Inc.

Sonya Ali
Ben’s Chili Bowl & Ben’s Next Door

Lynn M. Fisher-Fox
Arnold & Porter LLP

Monica Gonzales-Conic
Share Our Strength

Jorden Gonzales-Richard
Westminster Ingleside Foundation

Julia Howell Barros
Development Consultant

Monica Palacio, J.D.
D.C. Office of Human Rights

Leah Malcom Skrine
Malcom Property Management

Lyndsi Sitcove
McEnearney Associates