Partners
Devika Goetschius
Dev Goetschius, Partner, has over 20 years of professional experience in managing non-profits. She currently is Executive Director of Housing Land Trust of Sonoma County (HLTSC), a non-profit corporation established in 2002, a position she has held since 2003. She joined Burlington Associates in Community Development in 2010. She is a founding board member and serves on the board of the National Community Land Trust Network. She has a Bachelors degree from Drew University in Psychology and Spanish Literature, and is a credentialed teacher of the handicapped. She is fluent in...
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Jane Knodell
JANE KNODELL, Partner, is a Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, where she teaches and conducts research on financial institutions. She currently serves as UVM’s Provost and Senior Vice President. Jane has hands-on experience working with municipal governments and nonprofit organizations in fostering broad-based economic development.
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John Emmeus Davis
JOHN EMMEUS DAVIS, Partner, was one of the founders of Burlington Associates in 1993. He has over 40 years experience providing technical assistance to community land trusts and other nonprofit community development organizations throughout the United States. He previously worked as a community organizer and nonprofit executive director in East Tennessee and served as Housing Director and Enterprise Community Coordinator for the City of Burlington, Vermont. He has taught housing policy and neighborhood planning at New Hampshire College and MIT. He was a co-founder...
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Mary O'Hara
Mary O’Hara, Partner, has been with Burlington Associates since 1999. She has over 20 years of experience in the field of community development lending and community reinvestment, with a special expertise in loan fund start-ups, loan underwriting, work-outs, fund management, and technical assistance to community development financial institutions. She has held leadership positions at the Massachusetts Urban Reinvestment Advisory Group, Boston Community Capital, and the Institute for Community Economics. She presently serves as Director of the ROC USA Network...
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Michael Brown
Michael Brown, Partner, has over 40 years of experience in community development, housing development, advocacy, and organizational development – particularly with community land trusts and other shared-equity strategies. Prior to becoming a Partner in Burlington Associates, he served as the first Executive Director of the Woodland Community Land Trust in Clairfield, Tennessee, one of the first CLTs operating in the United States, the Associate Director of the Institute for Community Economics and the founding Executive Director of the Housing Coalition in...
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Michael Monte
Michael Monte, Partner, has worked in the community development field for over 40 years. During the course of his career, Michael has served as executive director for several nonprofit organizations and was employed by the City of Burlington (Vermont) for 19 years. For twelve of those years, he was a department director, leading Burlington's award-winning Community and Economic Development Office. Since 2007, Michael has served as the Chief Operating and Financial Officer for the Champlain Housing Trust. CHT is the largest community land trust in the...
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Jeff Washburne
Jeff Washburne is an Associate with Burlington Associates and is working with several community land trusts across the country. He transitioned away from the City of Lakes Community Land Trust (CLCLT) in Minneapolis in 2023 after serving as its Executive Director since its incorporation in November 2022. Over his 20+ year tenure with the CLCLT, the organization was able to assist over 490 low-income households into CLCLT homeownership with over 375 permanently affordable homes in trust. Under his leadership, the CLCLT grew to become the largest homeownership community land...
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