Dr. Lawrence Padberg, Chairman of the Board is currently Director of Development for New Hope Housing, Inc., a nonprofit that operates homeless shelters, transitional and supportive housing programs, and related services. He is a graduate and past member of the Board of Directors of Leadership Fairfax and serves as coordinator for the Northern Virginia nonprofit development officers group. Larry has extensive experience in higher education administration as well as with the United Way of the National Capital Area. He holds a BA from Rockhurst University and, from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, MA in Biology, MA in Education Administration, and a PhD in Adult Education.
Mary Margaret Whipple, President, represented the 31st District in the Virginia State Senate from 1996 until her recent retirement. She chaired the Senate Rules Committee and was a member of several standing committees and legislative commissions including the Virginia Housing Commission. She was both a member and chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Committee on the Environment. As a member of the Arlington County Board (1983–1995), she worked on transportation issues and served on the WMATA Board of Directors. A former instructor at Northern Virginia Community College, Mrs. Whipple was appointed to the Arlington County School Board in 1976 and was Chair in 1978. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Arlington Community Foundation and an Honorary Member of the Board of Scenic Virginia.
C. Eugene Hubbard, Vice President, has served Arlington over a span of several decades, with tenure on the Fair Housing Board, Human Rights Commission, Long Range Planning Committee, Site Plan Review Committee, Planning Commission, and Transportation Commission. Currently self-employed as a tax consultant, he served for over 30 years as Operations Research Analyst/Intelligence Analyst with the Department of Defense. He holds a MBPA from Southeastern University.
Kathryn Scruggs, Secretary, taught Reading and English Language Learners for 29 years with the Arlington Public Schools and served as president of the Arlington Education Association from 2001 to 2003. She has served as Chairman of the Housing Committee of the Arlington County Civic Federation for the past 5 years. She holds a BA from Rosary College (River Forest IL) and MEd in Reading from George Mason University.
Stuart Raynor, Treasurer, has been involved with affordable housing in both the private sector and the public sector for 40 years—as a developer, asset and property manager, mortgage banker, lender, investment broker, and director of nonprofit affordable housing organizations. He was Director of Housing Management with the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County and served on the Arlington County Fiscal Affairs Advisory Commission and the Board of Directors of AHC, Inc., an affordable housing provider. He earned his AB in Economics from Princeton University.
Martha Bozman, a native of Arlington, has worked in various organizations (primarily nonprofits) in the education and training fields. She is currently with the GED Testing Service as Director of Operations; she works with partners in states, provinces, and territories to ensure that the GED Tests are administered properly throughout the testing program. Before GED Testing Service, she worked with Reading Is Fundamental, where she managed a large grant, and she and her team were responsible for creating learning resources for families and childcare providers about how to support language and literature development of young children. Martha also worked for the Peace Corps and volunteered with Save the Children in Nepal. Her undergraduate degree is from Bryn Mawr College, and she earned an MEd from the University of Virginia.
Kevin Connelly has over 27 years’ experience in the mortgage industry. Currently he is Vice President and Producing Branch Manager for the BB&T Bank in Arlington. Prior to his work at BB&T, Kevin served as Sales Manager and Loan Officer at several other firms, including Pinnacle Financial Corporation and Pacific Guaranty Mortgage. He holds a BS in Business and Management from the University of Maryland and is a Certified Instructor for both the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors Continuing Education Program and the Virginia Housing Development Authority (VHDA). Kevin is a Member of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Metropolitan Washington.
Dan Fogarty has more than five years of professional and academic experience in communication, marketing, public relations, and advertising. He works for Net New Growth, LLC as a communications consultant providing social media, wiki, and strategic communications tactical support. Concurrently, he works at the National Institutes of Health as a Special Advisor (c0ntractor). Dan attended Johns Hopkins University for his MA in Communication.
Margaret “Peg” Hogan, a 40-year resident of Arlington, is Chair of the Arlington County Board of Equalization. She also serves on the legislative committee of the Arlington Civic Federation and has taken part in community activities supporting affordable housing. Ms. Hogan earned a BA from Michigan State University.
Alan Howze works as a management consultant for IBM’s Global Business Services. He is a leader in IBM’s Smarter Planet/Smarter Government initiatives and has worked with federal, state, and local governments. Prior to joining IBM, Alan served as the Political Director for former Virginia Governor (now Senator) Mark Warner, worked for the Minority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates, and was Legislative Director for a Member of Congress. He is a longtime environmental sustainability advocate and is active in many community organizations, including serving as President of the Highland Park Overlee Knolls Civic Association and Vice-Chair of the Fiscal Affairs Advisory Council (FAAC). He is a graduate of James Madison University and received his MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He and his wife, Pam Howze, have three young children.
Takis Karantonis is Executive Director of the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization (CPRO). His almost 20 years of experience as an economist and planner specializing in urban, regional, and environmental economics includes managing public and joint private–public (multistakeholder) investment projects in urban revitalization, housing, and environmental protection. His civic volunteer work is focused on the fight against urban poverty and on the furthering of environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable communities. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and is a member of the Congress for a New Urbanism and the Urban Land Institute. A longtime Columbia Pike resident, Takis resides in historic Arlington Village (Columbia Heights).
Jenny Denney Lawson is the Executive Director of A Billion + Change a national campaign to encourage more skills based volunteering and pro bono service in the corporate sector. She came to A Billion + Change from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (now C2ES). Her career began with community development and affordable housing advocacy in northern Virginia where she served as the founding Executive Director of the Alliance for Housing Solutions and as a long-time staffer of AHC, Inc., where she helped to form the resident services program. Jenny is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Leadership Training program of Duke University and the Nature Conservancy.
David Leibson has been managing and supporting affordable housing in the United States and abroad for 40 years. He is currently Co-Chair of Arlington County’s 10-Year Plan To End Homelessness and, for 8 years before that, was a member of the County Housing Commission. He recently served on the Working Group for the Columbia Pike Land Use and Housing Plan and is currently on the Working Group for the County Housing Study. Internationally, he has held senior positions with the US Agency for International Development, the US–Asia Environmental Partnership, and the Foundation for Cooperative Housing. He holds a BA in Architecture from Carnegie Mellon.
Maureen Markham has over 25 years’ experience in housing and community development programs. She is Senior Development Specialist with the Arlington County Housing Division, focusing on Arlington’s Affordable Housing Investment Fund program. For 11 years, Maureen worked for the Washington State Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development. She is a certified Housing Development Finance Professional through the National Development Council and holds a MPA from Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and an MS in Child Development and Family Study from the University of Delaware.
José Peñaranda came to the US from Bolivia in 1979. After earning a degree in computer science, he managed a language school in Washington DC. He has been a real estate business professional since 1983 and has owned his own brokerage company since 1987. An Arlington County resident since 1990, Mr. Peñaranda is a member of the County’s Board of Equalization and volunteers at a local homeless shelter.
Eric Wenberg is a US Department of Agriculture employee and a career foreign service officer specializing in trade. An economist, he is presently assigned to USDA’s Washington DC headquarters and operates its foreign market development programs to co-finance export promotion programs with not-for-profit trade associations and agricultural cooperatives. He was Vice President of the American Foreign Service Association in 2003. Eric has been an Arlington Country resident since 1993, living in Waverly Hills between tours overseas to Moscow and Warsaw. He has been active in the community to help start new not-for-profit service organizations in affordable housing and wilderness education. He is a member of the Rock Spring United Church of Christ, serving on its leadership council and its social action board. He is married and has two children in the Arlington Public Schools.
Mary Rouleau, Executive Director, is a 20-year resident of Arlington and long-time advocate for affordable housing. Before becoming AHS executive director in June 2010, Mary was an educator for 5 years and worked for over 20 years in law, business development, and public policy strategy, including positions in the telecommunications industry and for AARP and the United Auto Workers. She taught social studies full-time at George C. Marshall High School and part-time at the Arlington Mill High School Evening Program. She holds a BS in public administration from Eastern Michigan University and a JD from Wayne State University. She obtained her education license through a program sponsored by the George Washington University. Mary also volunteers with several local service agencies including the Arlington Free Clinic.
Kate Dorrell, Association Assistant, is a 25-year resident of Arlington who has worked with AHS since 2007. A federal retiree, she worked at the Departments of Energy, Army, Education, and Labor, in positions ranging from writer-editor to training developer to mediator/facilitator and equal opportunity specialist. She volunteers with Samaritan Ministry, the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia, and The American Century Theater. Kate holds a MEd from Boston University and a BA from Brown University.
