Leadership & Staff
Grace Roth, Interim Executive Director
Portfolio Development Manager
Grace is interested in the intersection of economic, environmental, and housing justice and hopes to empower people and communities to envision and create a better world.
Grace Roth, Interim Executive Director
Portfolio Development Manager
Grace Roth has worked with ALT since 2022, leading single-family and missing middle real estate development projects. She was named Interim Executive Director in December 2025.
Grace graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with her Master of City and Regional Planning. While at GA Tech, she worked as a Graduate Researcher and a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Scoring Intern at the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. Previously, she served as a Construction Site Coordinator with the Tacoma/Pierce County Habitat for Humanity and Field Engineer/Civil Estimator with Kiewit Power Constructors, Inc. Grace is interested in the intersection of economic, environmental, and housing justice and hopes to empower people and communities to envision and create a better world.
Angel Wheeler
Stewardship Coordinator
Angel is a dedicated native Atlantan with a lifelong commitment to housing advocacy and community empowerment.
Angel Wheeler
Stewardship Coordinator
Angel is a dedicated native Atlantan whose lifelong commitment to housing advocacy and community empowerment has left an indelible mark on the city she calls home. Her journey began in the 1990s as an intern with the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office, where she first cultivated her passion for equitable urban development. This drive led her to serve as a Housing Specialist for Atlanta’s Housing and Community Development Department during the transformative 1996 Atlanta Olympics—a pivotal experience that inspired her transition into property management.
Karen Babino
Stewardship Manager
Karen is a licensed broker who works with low- and moderate-income households, promoting homebuyer education, financial literacy, and down payment assistance.
Karen Babino
Stewardship Manager
Karen Babino has more than ten years of combined experience in real estate. She is a licensed broker who has focused on working directly with low and moderate-income households, encouraging homebuyer education, financial literacy, and the use of down payment assistance programs. She is very active in her community, having served in leadership roles in both her neighborhood organization and Neighborhood Planning Unit S. She previously worked in corporate marketing and communications for an acute-care specialty hospital within a non-profit healthcare system.
Board of Directors
Dawn Arnold
Board Chair
Dawn Arnold oversees Invest Atlanta’s Community Development, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources and Investment Services departments. Before her current position, Dawn served as Senior Vice President of Community Development and was responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction in the successful execution of a shared vision of comprehensive community development, quality affordable housing, and economic growth in the City of Atlanta’s ten Tax Allocation Districts.
Rob Brawner
Board Vice Chair
Rob Brawner leads the Partnership in its broad-based, collaborative focus on ensuring the promise of stronger communities and equitable, sustainable benefit to the 45 Atlanta Beltline neighborhoods and beyond. His responsibilities include the development and implementation of the Partnership’s strategic plan, as well as capital and operational fundraising – and stewardship of the private and philanthropic funds that support of the construction of the project.
Karim Shariff
Board Treasurer
Karim Shariff is a seasoned entrepreneur who is dedicated to making an impact in the City of Atlanta. He has had the opportunity to develop and manage several business ventures from the ground up. He has also played an integral role in a number of non-profit organizations within Atlanta, including Leadership Atlanta, Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, and the APS School Governance Board. His professional experience spans over 15 years in developing and leading small businesses. His most recent venture, PacificPoint Realty, LLC, is a real estate development and investment firm focused on the in-town Atlanta markets.
Andy Schneggenburger
Board Secretary
Andy is the founder of Porch and Square, a real estate development and consulting firm focused on a triple-bottom-line and community-oriented approach to smart growth and housing affordability. Andy also serves as Policy Advisor to DeKalb County Commissioner Michelle Long Spears and serves as Chair of the Atlanta Housing Commission, an appointed body responsible for making housing policy recommendations to Atlanta City Council and the Mayor’s Office.
Alison Solomon
Associate General Counsel
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Bem Joiner
Co-Founder
Atlanta Influences Everything
Chanel Zeisel
Assistant Director, Housing Policy and Programs
City of Atlanta, Department of City Planning
Chris Haider-Bardill
Clinical Director
Families First
Jim Schroder
Lisa Bennett
Homeowner
Makeisha Robey
Homeowner
Richard Slaton
Executive Director
JP Morgan Chase Commercial Bank, Community Development Banking
Ronit Hoffer
Senior Real Estate Developer
Mercy Housing Southeast
Sule Carpenter
Dynamic Development Enterprises
Suzanne Burnes
Just Growth Director
Partnership for Southern Equity
Tara Mitchell
Vice-Chair
Neighborhood Planning Unit-K
Terra Washington
VP, Marketing & Communications
Decide DeKalb Development Authority
