Team

Amanda Rhein is a seasoned real estate professional with extensive experience facilitating public private partnerships and community development. She most recently served as the Senior Director of TOD and Real Estate with MARTA where she worked to create transit-oriented communities that connect people to opportunities, drive sustainable community development and promote regional prosperity. Previously she spent ten years at Invest Atlanta attracting investment to Atlanta’s most underserved communities.

Karen Babino has more than ten years 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.

Grace Roth 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.

Edith Mares is a graduate of Brown University with a double major in Public Health and Anthropology. Edith is currently a candidate for Juris Doctor at Georgia State University College of Law where she also sits on the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Student Bar Association and is Treasurer of the Estate Planning & Wealth Management Law Society. Edith is interested in using her personal experiences and education to help create a more equitable Atlanta where all Atlanta residents can prosper.

Executive Vice-President/COO
Invest Atlanta

Dawn Arnold  oversees Invest Atlanta’s Community Development, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources and Investment Services departments. Prior to 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.

Executive Director
Atlanta BeltLine Partnership

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.

Head of Real Estate
Juno

Founded in 2019, Juno (www.juno.co) is a product company on a mission to reinvent multifamily development. The Company has built a repeatable system to integrate the design, development, and delivery of multifamily housing with the goal of unlocking value for both residents and investors alike. As Head of Real Estate for Juno and President of the Juno Development (the real estate division of the company), Jim is responsible for building the pipeline of new multifamily real estate projects and raising capital for those projects.

Professor
Georgia State University College of Law

Oakland City Community Organization

Homeowner

Founder and Principal

Porch and Square

Dynamic Development Enterprises

Managing Partner

PacificPoint Realty

Affordable Homeownership Lead, SVP
Wells Fargo 

Senior Vice President, Atlanta Market Executive

Bank of America Atlanta 

Homeowner

Assistant Director, Housing Policy and Programs 
City of Atlanta, Department of City Planning