Executive Leadership
Mary Lawler
Mary Lawler has served as Executive Director of Avenue since 1996. She has a Master’s from Harvard University’s Kennedy School and a B.A. from Duke University. She currently serves on...
Travis L. Gordon
Travis joined Avenue in 2018. As the Finance Director, Travis focuses on developing and linking the strategy of Avenue to its long range goals and annual operating budget, managing accounting...
Berenice Yu
Berenice currently serves Avenue in the role of Chief Operating Officer, providing program Leadership of our Asset Building, Community Initiatives, and Resident Services programs; coordinating operational planning; leading the implementation...
Administration & Accounting
Brittney Harris
Brittney joined Avenue in 2019 as a Property Manager, managing Avenue’s portfolio...
Jennifer Martinazzi
Jennifer is the Accounting Associate responsible for assisting the Finance Director in...
Courtney Johnson
Courtney joined Avenue in 2016 as an Executive Assistant and now serves...
Lourdes Gonzalez
Lourdes joined Avenue in 2018 as Receptionist for our administrative offices. She...
Community Initiatives
Maria Aguirre-Borrero
Maria joined Avenue in October of 2015, and is currently the Director...
Xochitl Jimenez
Xochitl joined Avenue in 2014. As the Resident Services Manager, she manages...
Cynthia Reyes-Revilla
Cynthia joined Avenue in 2017 as Community Coordinator for the Near Northside....
Laila Khalili
Laila joined Avenue in 2017 and serves as the Community Initiatives Project...
Sofia Font
Sofia joined Avenue in August 2018 as Community Coordinator for the Northline...
Amanda Salvador
Amanda joined Avenue CDC as the Program Assistant for the Community Initiatives...
Family Asset Building
Cindy Tessler
Cindy joined Avenue in 2017 as Counseling Program Manager for the HomeOwnership...
Diane Jasso
Diane is a native Houstonian and fourth generation Texan. She attended and...
Mariposa Thomson
Mariposa joined Avenue in 2018 as the Client Services Coordinator for Avenue’s...
Christian Greaser
Christian joined Avenue CDC as a Housing Counselor in February 2019, after...
Victoria Garcia
Victoria joined Avenue’s Asset Building Team in 2018 as a Housing Recovery...
Diana Martinez
Diana joined Avenue CDC in February 2018 as a Housing Recovery Counselor...
Angela Guerrero
Angela joined Avenue in 2016 as a Community Coordinator and now serves...
Yesenia Flores
Yesenia joined Avenue as the Program Assistant for the Housing Recovery Center...
Fund Development & Communication
Kara Niles
As Director of Fund Development and Communication, Kara focuses on outreach to...
Darla Berry
Darla joined Avenue as Fund Development Officer and Grant Writer in 2016....
Kim Arenas
Kim joined Avenue in 2017 as Development Communications Officer. Prior to joining...
Cristina De Los Santos
Cristina joined Avenue as a Development Associate in 2019. Prior to Avenue,...
Real Estate Development
Aaron Campbell
Aaron Campbell joined Avenue in 2017 as Realty Program Coordinator and now...
Paula Broughton
Paula is a recent addition to Avenue CDC, joining in April 2018....
Robert Fiederlein
Robert joined Avenue in 2017 as our Senior Director of Real Estate...
Jason Holoubek
As the Director of Rental Housing and Economic Development, Jason manages the...
Melissa Fontenot
As Director of Single Family Housing, Melissa oversees all phases of single-family...
Chris Laugelli
Chris joined Avenue CDC as the Manager of Single-Family Home Repair in...
Cinthya Bernhardt
Cinthya joined Avenue as the Accounting Coordinator in August 2018. She brings...
Anton Edwards
Anton joined Avenue as the Property Acquisition Specialist in 2015. His role...
Corey Browder
Corey joined Avenue and the Single-Family Home Repair program in 2018 as...
Tyler Fuller
Tyler graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from the...
Laura Grace
Laura joined Avenue in the spring of 2018 as a Construction Coordinator...
Luisa Chavez
Luisa joined Avenue in 2017 as a Single Family Developer. Luisa’s passion...
