Executive Leadership
Mary Lawler
Mary Lawler has served as Avenue’s Executive Director since 1996, leading Avenue’s growth in impact, programming, funding, and staffing. Mary is well-known for her expertise in affordable housing and community...
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...
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...
Administration & Accounting
Jennifer Martinazzi
Jennifer is the Accounting Associate responsible for assisting the Finance Director in...
Lourdes Gonzalez
Lourdes joined Avenue in 2018 as the Receptionist at the Avenue administrative...
Pamela Marshall
Pam joined Avenue in 2019 as the Executive Assistant to Mary Lawler,...
Community Initiatives
Maria Aguirre-Borrero
Maria joined Avenue in October of 2015, and is currently the Director...
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...
Family Asset Building
Cindy Tessler
Cindy joined Avenue in 2017 as Counseling Program Manager for the HomeOwnership...
Christian Greaser
Christian joined Avenue CDC as a Housing Counselor in February 2019, after...
Grace Ruiz
Graciela joined Avenue in 2020. As Client Services Coordinator, she provides customer...
Diane Jasso
Diane is a native Houstonian and fourth generation Texan. She attended and...
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...
Blanca Gonzalez
Blanca earned her bachelor’s degree in International Marketing in Mexico and has...
Yesenia Flores
Yesenia joined Avenue as the Program Assistant for the Housing Recovery Center...
Fund Development & Communication
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...
Justine Welch
Justine joined Avenue as Development Associate in 2020. She has worked in...
Madiha Haque
Madiha joined Avenue as the Grants Coordinator in 2020. Madiha has ten...
Real Estate Development
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...
Aaron Campbell
Aaron Campbell joined Avenue in 2017 as Realty Program Coordinator and now...
Luisa Chavez
Luisa joined Avenue in 2017 as a Single Family Developer. Luisa’s passion...
Anton Edwards
Anton joined Avenue as the Property Acquisition Specialist in 2015. His role...
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...
