As Assistant Vice President of Development for Related California, Ms. Nguyen is responsible for managing all aspects of the design, financing and construction for many of Related’s Northern California affordable developments, including the redevelopment of San Francisco’s largest public housing site, Sunnydale-Velasco, a 50-acre site currently home to more than 1,700 people.
Before joining Related, Ms. Nguyen worked for The Community Builders, Inc. in Washington, D.C. where she directed the application submission for the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Implementation Grant with the City of Baltimore, secured over $200 million in funds for affordable housing, and won the company’s 2015 Top Contributor Award for initiating impactful urban neighborhood projects. Prior to The Community Builders, Ms. Nguyen was a research associate at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., specializing in housing discrimination. Ms. Nguyen graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a Master in Business Administration, and from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Africana Studies.