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Hardly a week goes by without a story about appraisals ranging from concerns over bias to the availability of appraisers in an aging industry. Now that we know the problem – it’s time for the industry to start focusing on the solutions.
Chrissi Johnson will moderate and the speakers will discuss the work being done to bring together lenders, appraisers, real estate professionals, consumer advocacy and civil rights organizations and lead industry trade associations to find common ground on residential appraisal reform.
Speakers:
Meg Burns, Executive Vice President, Housing Policy Council
Maureen Yap, Senior Counsel, National Fair Housing Alliance Marisa Calderon, Executive Director, CDFI and Chief of Community Finance & Mobility, National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Noerena Limon, Principal, Mariposa Strategies LLC and Fellow, UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation (invited) Rachel Robinson, Director, Collateral Policy and Product Development, Rocket Mortgage
Moderator: Chrissi Johnson, Founder and CEO, Alinement Advisors
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Chrissi Johnson
Founder and CEO,
Alinement Advisors
Alinement Advisors is a New York-based advisory firm that coordinates housing policy efforts at the intersection of commerce and social change. With 15 years of experience driving policy change as a regulator and a practitioner, Chrissi is uniquely positioned to identify opportunities for alignment on key issues across a wide range of industry and consumer groups. Her diverse background in government, housing finance, and entrepreneurship make her a highly creative and tenacious problem solver. With deep experience in advocacy and policymaking, she knows that durable change requires breaking down barriers between stakeholders to find authentic relationships with shared purpose. Alinement Advisors is committed precisely to that end.
Prior to founding Alinement Advisors, Chrissi served in leadership roles with Rocket Companies, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Al Franken, and President Obama’s 2008 campaign. She also teaches barre and spends her free time cleaning up Brooklyn with the local “Trash Club” she founded.
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Meg Burns
Executive Vice President, Housing Policy Council
Meg Burns is the Housing Policy Council’s Executive Vice President. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the association’s regulatory policy, government affairs, and membership services. Meg joined HPC as the SVP for Mortgage
Policy, managing various regulatory and housing finance policy activities and engaging with federal policymakers.
Before joining HPC, Meg was a Partner at a DC-based housing finance advisory firm. Most of Meg’s career has
been dedicated to federal service. She served as the Senior Associate Director of the Office of Housing and Regulatory Policy at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), overseeing the policy activities of the GSEs in conservatorship,
including several high-impact projects, like the Servicing Alignment Initiative, redesign of the HARP program, and updating of the GSE representation and warranty models. Meg was also the Director of the Office of Congressional Affairs
and Communications at FHFA and the Director for Single Family Program Development at the Federal Housing Administration.
Meg holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Connecticut College and a master’s degree in philosophy
and public policy from The George Washington University. |
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Maureen Yap
Senior Counsel, National Fair Housing Alliance
Maureen Yap is a Senior Counsel on NFHA’s Public Policy and Enforcement Teams, with a focus on fair lending, financial technology, mortgage policy, and housing finance reform. Maureen has worked in fair housing and fair lending since
1995. Prior roles include working on a range of civil rights and consumer protection issues at the Federal Reserve Board, including leading the Board’s Fair Lending Enforcement Section and founding the Unfair and Deceptive Acts
or Practices (UDAP) Section. Maureen was also an Associate at the law firms of Relman Colfax PLLC and Buckley LLP.
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Marisa Calderon Executive Director, CDFI and Chief of Community Finance & Mobility, National Community Reinvestment Coalition Marisa Calderon is an experienced executive who has been recognized, awarded, and cited nationwide for her expertise in the housing and financial services industries. She has nearly two decades of experience dedicated to the issues of economic mobility and bridging America’s racial wealth gap. Marisa is the executive director of NCRC Community Development Fund, Inc., a U.S. Treasury-certified community development financial institution that provides loan capital to expand access to affordable homeownership and helps Black-, Brown-, and woman-owned businesses thrive. In 2022, it was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in the World. She is also Chief of Community Finance and Mobility for the Community Development Fund’s parent company, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) where she focuses on advancing economic mobility for communities impacted by systemic inequality and historic disinvestment. Marisa is ranked on the Swanepoel Power 200 as one of the most powerful leaders in the residential real estate industry, and was named a HousingWire 2018 Woman of Influence for her work in increasing real estate and mortgage professionals’ understanding and appreciation of the Hispanic home-buying market. During her decade at the helm of NAHREP, the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, she authored the annual State of Hispanic Homeownership Report and played an instrumental role as executive producer of L’ATTITUDE, an annual broadcast and event attended by thousands that engages entrepreneurs, business leaders, professional athletes, politicians, and other industry influencers. |
 | Noerena Limon Principal, Mariposa Strategies LLC and Fellow, UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation (invited)
Noerena Limon leads Mariposa Strategies LLC, which is an advisory firm focused on housing supply, homeownership, and bridging the racial and ethnic wealth gap. Noerena is also a Housing Fellow at the UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation. Most recently, Noerena served as Executive Vice President for Public Policy and Industry Relations at the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP), where she founded the organization’s first policy department and its corresponding National Advocacy Committee--NAHREP’s grassroots network. At NAHREP, Noerena led the organization’s research efforts authoring the annual publications of both the State of Hispanic Homeownership Report and the State of Hispanic Wealth Report. Additionally, Noerena led the Hispanic Wealth Project, an initiative that sought to triple median household wealth for Latinos through homeownership, entrepreneurship, and the diversification of assets.
Prior to joining NAHREP, Noerena spent six years at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, both in the Office of the Director and the Office of Mortgage Markets. Prior to that, she worked in the Office of Political Affairs at the White House, served as Deputy Communications Director for Spanish Language Media for the Obama-Biden 2008 Presidential Campaign, and as a Legislative Fellow for the Office of former U.S. Representative Xavier Becerra. Noerena received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Currently, Noerena serves as a board member for the MAAC Project, a San Diego-based non-profit focused on poverty alleviation, as an Executive Committee Board Member for Up For Growth, and as a board member for California YIMBY's Education Fund.
Meg holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Connecticut College and a master’s degree in philosophy and public policy from The George Washington University. | | | |
