Meet Ms. Carmen Romero, CEO & President of APAH (Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing). Ms. Romero joined the organization in 2011 and has spent the last decade overseeing the real estate team contributing to the creation or preservation of over 1,500 new affordable housing units in the DC region with additional developments underway today in Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Montgomery county. Prior to joining APAH in 2011, Ms. Romero was a Director of Real Estate Development and Public Private Partnerships at Clark Construction. She began her career at Marriott International.During this episode, Ms. Romero discusses growing the non-profit organizations' internal staff, geographic boundaries, and leveraging public resources to bring affordable housing into high cost communities. Ms. Romero received her MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business and an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. She is a former Board Member of the Arlington County Industrial Development Authority and is a current board member of the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization, ULI’s Affordable/Workforce Housing Council, and a member of the VHDA Multi-Family Advisory Council.
