Public Policy Staff Biographies

Alzane (Ali) Solis

Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Corporate Affairs Executive
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3921

As senior vice president and public policy and corporate affairs executive for Enterprise Community Partners, Alazne (Ali) Solis oversees the areas of public policy, communications, marketing and resource development. In this position, she develops and advocates policies to advance the development of affordable housing and sustainable communities with the administration, Congress, state and local policy stakeholders and other national industry partners. In addition, she heads the fundraising efforts and oversees the organization’s internal and external communications and marketing functions.

Solis joined Enterprise in February 2000 as the director of congressional outreach. In 2001, she was promoted to deputy director of public policy, then director in 2003 and to senior vice president in 2009.

During her time with Enterprise, Solis has advanced Enterprise’s wide range of public policy priorities. In the summer of 2008, she led the Save America’s Neighborhoods Campaign, a cross-industry taskforce of more than 100 national organizations that secured $4 billion in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act to stabilize communities struggling in the foreclosure crisis. Solis also played a key role in creating the National Community Stabilization Trust to facilitate the transfer of foreclosed and vacant residential properties from financial institutions and government entities to qualified local housing development partners.

In addition, Solis has testified before the U.S. Congress as well as state and local policy-makers on the issues of housing, banking and tax legislation. She also has developed and maintained strategic alliances with national and local trade associations, regulatory agencies and banking and finance industry partners.

Prior to joining Enterprise, Solis was the legislative director for the congressionally chartered Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. She also worked in the private sector for W.R. Grace, AT&T and the Washington Group. She is an INROADS alumnus and a University of Maryland graduate with a dual bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish.

In addition to her work at Enterprise, Solis is on the board of the Montgomery Housing Partnership, a private nonprofit that develops, acquires, rehabilitates and builds high-quality apartments and homes. The former president of Women in Housing and Finance, Inc., a professional association of 800 women and men from the housing and financial services industries, she also serves as a bilingual mentor for the Silver Spring Interfaith Housing Coalition.

Adrienne Quinn

Vice President of Public Policy and Government Relations
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3922

Adrienne Quinn is vice president of the Enterprise Policy team, which develops and advocates for policies that are beneficial to community-based revitalization; and which works with Congress, the administration, other national organizations and select state and local governments. Quinn works closely with the public policy and corporate affairs senior executive to implement legislative strategies and proposals, and to develop testimony, regulatory comments and other policy-related materials. As the primary point of contact for key congressional and administration staff, Quinn educates them broadly about Enterprise’s activities, advocating for top affordable housing and community development legislation, identifying appropriations priorities and serving as a resource for objective, nonpartisan information.

Prior to joining Enterprise in 2010, Quinn served as director of the Seattle Office of Housing. There, she developed housing policy initiatives for the mayor and city council, and managed programs that included: multifamily lending, first-time homebuyer programs; asset management; green affordable housing initiatives; weatherization programs; and tax abatement and incentive programs to encourage for-profit developers to invest in and develop affordable housing. During her five-year tenure as director, the office was responsible for the creation and preservation of more than 3,700 units of affordable housing and passing a $145 million housing levy, as well as expanding both the Multifamily Tax Exemption Program and the incentive zoning program citywide. Prior to her position with the city of Seattle, she was a partner with Buck & Gordon, LLP, where she provided counsel to for-profit and nonprofit housing developers and municipalities on a range of issues related to real estate development, including affordable housing development.

Quinn holds a bachelor’s degree from College of the Holy Cross, a master’s degree in divinity from Harvard University Divinity School and a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law. Quinn is a former board president for Plymouth Housing Group, a nonprofit focused on housing for formerly homeless individuals; a Seattle Planning Commissioner; and a mentor to teenagers through the YWCA's Girls First Program

Kristin Siglin

Vice President and Senior Policy Advisor
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3908

As vice president and senior policy advisor at Enterprise, Kristin Siglin is responsible for practical research to analyze, document and create new policies to support the financing of affordable housing in diverse, thriving communities. She has worked at Enterprise in various capacities since 1993. Initially she was the director of policy research and development, and then was promoted to vice president in 1996.

Siglin was on leave from Enterprise from February 2001 to October 2002 to serve as the director of policy at the Millennial Housing Commission, a congressionally mandated, 22-member bipartisan commission responsible for issuing a report on federal housing policy. Former Enterprise Chairman Bart Harvey served on the Millennial Housing Commission, as did Enterprise trustees Cushing Dolbeare and Cathy Bessant.

Before joining Enterprise, Siglin held various staff positions in the U.S. Congress, including the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, where she worked on the housing authorizations bills in 1990 and 1992, and was responsible for the Subcommittee on Consumer and Regulatory Affairs. She also worked for Senator Christopher S. Bond of Missouri and Congressman James Leach of Iowa.

Siglin graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in history.

Peter Lawrence

Senior Policy Director
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3915

Peter Lawrence is a Senior Policy Director for Enterprise Community Partners. His primary issue responsibilities are tax (including advocacy on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and the New Markets Tax Credit programs as well as tax incentives to promote green and sustainable building) and preservation policy. He also is a Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition.

Prior to joining Enterprise, he was a Legislative and Policy Associate at the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA), focusing on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, tax-exempt housing private activity bonds, and Government Sponsored Enterprises. He also was a Housing Policy Analyst for the Center on Budget Policies and Priorities, where he worked on the Housing Choice Voucher Program, a Congressional Fellow for Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island in his capacity as the Ranking Member of the Senate Housing and Transportation Subcommittee, and a Presidential Management Fellow for the Office of Policy Development & Research at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development. In addition to his federal experience, he has served as an Analyst for the affordable housing group of Chicago Metropolis 2020, and as an appointed member of the Interagency Taskforce on Homelessness of the City of Berkeley, California.

Joe Maheady
Senior Director, Green Policy
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3920

As Senior Director, Green Policy, Joe Maheady is responsible for public policy advocacy on issues that relate to energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable and healthy affordable housing.  He is responsible for developing and implementing a public policy strategy to advance Enterprise’s green housing policy priorities. 

Prior to joining Enterprise, Joe was a green building consultant based in Columbia, MD, where he worked with state and local government officials to develop and implement sustainability and climate action plans and to enact sound green building public policy.  Prior to his work in the private sector, Joe was the Public Policy Director of the U.S. Green Building Council, where he led an advocacy team in developing and executing a green building public policy strategy.  Joe remains an active member of the Maryland Chapter of USGBC.  He also was a senior policy analyst for the National Association of Realtors, where he developed and executed federal advocacy strategies on land use and environmental policy initiatives.

A Pennsylvania native, Joe holds a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University and a J.D. from Catholic University School of Law.

Amanda Sheldon Roberts

Housing Director, Public Policy
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3918

As Housing Director on the Public Policy team at Enterprise, Amanda Sheldon Roberts analyzes, explores, and advocates for new policies and programs to support the financing of affordable housing in diverse, thriving communities. She conducts primary and secondary research and thoughtful analysis of existing and potential housing policies and works with industry partners to advocate for meaningful national housing and community development policies.

Amanda is a policy subject expert on the HUD Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) and co-authored “The Challenge of Foreclosed Properties,” a publication released in 2009 that analyzed the action plans of 87 NSP grantees. Amanda has shared her NSP knowledge by briefing Congressional staff, writing articles, giving keynote addresses, and presenting at over a dozen housing and community development conferences or webinars. Amanda also chairs the National Foreclosure Prevention and Neighborhood Stabilization Task Force, a cross-industry group of local and national organizations working to address the impacts of the foreclosure crisis on communities.

Prior to joining Enterprise, Amanda worked on the Resource Policy Team at Self-Help in Durham, NC where she worked on diverse projects for Self-Help and the Center for Responsible Lending. Amanda has a Masters in Public Policy from Duke University, a degree she earned after returning from two years as a youth and community development volunteer in the Peace Corps. Amanda holds a B.A. in International Relations and Women’s Studies from Tulane University in New Orleans and serves on the board of the Newcomb College Institute Director’s Advisory Council at Tulane.

Michael Spotts

Policy Analyst
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
202.649.3902

Michael Spotts is a Policy Analyst for Enterprise Community Partners. He joined the Public Policy team in August 2009. In his position at Enterprise, he conducts research and analysis of affordable housing and community development policies. Michael graduated with a Masters of Science in Public Policy and Management from the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to attending graduate school he worked as the Training Coordinator for the Housing Assistance Council. He has also served as a consultant or intern for several organizations, including Sustainable Pittsburgh, where he assisted in the development of the organization’s Sustainable Community Essentials series of resources and case studies. Prior experience in the community development field includes work with Allegheny County (PA) Economic Development, the Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the Pennsylvania Rural Development Council (now known as the Governor’s Advisory Council on Rural Affairs). Michael graduated Summa Cum Laude from Dickinson College in 2006, and received a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Community and Economic Development from the Pennsylvania State University in 2008.