CCB is Growing!
Welcome our newest senior staff leader and board members
CCB is growing at both the staff and board level! We are very excited to welcome our new Chief Strategy Officer, Greg Magofna, and our newest board members, Mansur Abdul-Malik, Kelsey Lyles, Jimmy Ly, Aysha Pamukcu, and Natalie Sandoval. Please see below for a short bio for each of the newest additions to CCB’s staff and board.
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A Hawai’i and Bay Area native, Greg’s career has been dedicated to public service and creating more diverse and equitable communities with a focus on land-use and housing policies. Greg comes to CCB from CalHDF, where in addition to suing cities for illegally denying housing, Greg worked to strategically grow CalHDF’s reach, influence, and resources, while working to demonstrate the importance of state housing law enforcement as a novel, yet critical component of mitigating California’s dire housing shortage. Before that, he was previously the Digital Marketing and Communications Manager at Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, an organization that works with and for homeless, formerly incarcerated, and/or low-income populations. In addition, he is one of the co-founders and Co-Executives of the social equity nonprofit East Bay for Everyone, once served as Senior Aide to former Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, and has served in appointed roles as a Berkeley Housing Commissioner, Berkeley Environmental Commissioner, and on the Alameda County A1 Housing Bond Oversight Committee. Greg has a Master of Urban Planning from the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley.
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Mansur is a commercial real estate professional with a concentration in affordable multifamily housing. He has a Master of Science in commercial real estate development from the University of Maryland at College Park and a decade of professional experience working for one of the nation’s largest non-profit affordable housing developers, The NHP Foundation (NHPF). In his role as Senior Vice-President of Development, he is responsible for the full scope of creating and preserving affordable housing, including acquisition, deal structuring, and raising public and private debt and equity. He is also well versed in financing renewable energy developments, state managed affordable housing grant/loan and tax exemption programs, and HUD sponsored programs. Mansur sits on NHPF’s strategic planning board, is a member of NHP’s diversity and social equity committee, co-chairs the firms emerging leader forum that works to cultivate and grow NHPF’s young talent, and leads the firm’s initiative to partner with local colleges and universities to provide internships for students
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Kelsey’s expertise in public policy, legislative advocacy, and integrating health and racial equity into systems change inspire her to promote innovative approaches to closing the racial health and wealth gaps for BIPOC families. At the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII), Kelsey leads policy and advocacy efforts related to promoting prosperity for Black families through economic justice, structural change, and reparations.
Prior to BARHII, Kelsey led health and racial equity policy initiatives at the Greenlining Institute, the Public Health Institute, the California Strategic Growth Council, and the California Department of Public Health. She received her degree in Sociology and Community Development from Howard University.
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Item descriptionJimmy has more than ten years of real estate experience in a variety of disciplines, including public/private partnerships, affordable housing, market rate housing, and economic development. As a Senior Manager of Development with Greystar, Jimmy is responsible for managing a number of market rate and affordable housing projects in various stages of development in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to joining Greystar, Jimmy worked in affordable housing development and investments at McCormack Baron Salazar, Enterprise Community Investments, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), where he served as Chief of Staff and Senior Associate in the Real Estate Transactions division. His inspiration for pursuing a double bottom lined approach originates from his in-depth knowledge of real estate and from his personal experience as the son of Vietnamese refugees and the challenges faced by his community and many others like it. Jimmy is a proud CSU alum having graduated with a Bachelor’s in Urban Planning from Cal Poly Pomona and a Master’s in City Planning with a concentration in Public/Private Development from the University of Pennsylvania
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Aysha Pamukcu is a champion for social justice through policy and systems change. She is the Director of the San Francisco Foundation's Policy Fund, which advances community-driven policy solutions to the housing crisis and economic inequality. She is also the founder of Movement Praxis, an equity-centered policy and philanthropic consulting practice whose accomplishments include co-creating the “civil rights of health” framework. Aysha has supported leaders across the country in meeting their community's needs through good governance and equitable policy. She previously served as ChangeLab Solutions’ first-ever Health Equity Lead, using policy to improve the health of the most marginalized people and places. Prior to that, Aysha worked as a civil rights attorney for the Greenlining Institute and clerked for judges in the Supreme Court Chamber of the Cambodian war crimes tribunal. Aysha’s commitment to justice work is anchored by her personal story. She is the proud child of immigrants and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Natalie Sandoval is Executive Director at the Urban Land Institute San Francisco (ULI SF) and has over 15 years of experience in real estate, economic development, urban planning, and landscape architecture. She has been with ULI SF since 2016 and a member of ULI since 2007. Over the last seven years, she led all the organization’s public sector initiatives and collaborated with ULI members to launch Housing the Bay, an initiative bringing together dozens of public, private, labor, and community organizations to share ideas and strategies and to foster equitable solutions to the region’s severe housing shortage. She was also instrumental in launching and directing ULI’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion efforts. Prior to joining ULI, she worked in the New York office of HR&A Advisors, an economic development and real estate consulting firm, as the Director of Marketing and Business Development. Prior to HR&A, she was the first Marketing and Business Development Manager for SWA Group, an international landscape architecture and urban design firm. Natalie received her MBA from the Presidio Graduate School and holds a BA from Bard College.