Staff & Board

The Housing Fund’s team is a dynamic group of individuals, ready to assist in meeting the affordable-housing and equitable community-development goals of Tennessee’s communities.

2024 Board Roster

Officers

Kim Hollingshead

Chair,

Hollingshead & Associates, PLLC

Miguel Vega

Vice Chair,

Nuestro Financial

Alberto Arechiga

Secretary/Treasurer,

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Directors:

Doug Lesky

Zeitlin Sotheby’s International Realty

Rodrick Butler

Northwestern Mutual

Philip McCutchan

Hancock Whitney

Lorrie Shearon

Community Representative

Jessica LeVeen Farr

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Michael Frazee

Pinnacle Financial Partners

Derrick Williams

First Horizon Bank

Keith Miles

MP&F (retired)

Angela Curtis

BRAVV

Ron Crutcher

Crutcher & Associates, LLC

Tera Bloecher

U.S. Bank

Our Staff

Marshall E. Crawford, Jr., MPA

President and CEO

An experienced nonprofit executive, Marshall Crawford shares The Housing Fund’s commitment to helping individuals and communities create and maintain affordable, healthy places in which to live and work. As President and CEO, his responsibilities include organizational leadership, strategic planning, resource development, and the management of loan portfolios, lending operations, and community/external relations.

Meet Our Team

David Parrish

David Parrish

Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

David is responsible for strategic leadership and accounting operations.  He provides leadership for the organization along with standard and custom financial reports to the CEO and Board of Directors to assess the financial status of The Housing Fund.

(615) 515-2204

Angela Belcher

Angela Belcher

Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer

Angela provides leadership and strategic vision to the organization. She enhances all operational, managerial and administrative procedures, reporting structures
and operation controls for The Housing Fund.

(615) 515-2201

Alisha Haddock

Alisha Haddock

Senior Vice President, Director of Community and Economic Development

Alisha manages our commercial lending activities and property development.  She ensures implementation, and evaluation of a community and economic development activities while managing our impact.

(615) 515-2206

Mary Beth Ikard, APR

Mary Beth Ikard, APR

Communications Manager

Mary Beth develops strategic communication and grant-writing strategies to build community awareness about THF programs and initiatives, and leverage funding opportunities

(615) 515-2215

Joseph Lackey

Joseph Lackey

Controller

Joseph plans and organizes financial and accounting activities, prepares financial statements and records, and advances client-service software and systems.

(615) 551-2754

Candice Winburn

Candice Winburn

Senior Mortgage Advisor

Candice leads our downpayment assistance loan and home improvement products; conducts outreach and works closely with our lending partners.

(615) 515-2211

Freda Harris 

Freda Harris 

Senior Mortgage Advisor

Freda provides guidance and counseling to consumers interested in homeownership opportunities. She also leads our homebuyer education and money management activities.

(615) 515-2203

Joanna Foust

Joanna Foust

Relationship Manager, Community and Economic Development

Joanna is a business development strategist that works across all programs and initiatives providing community outreach efforts to develop and implement marketing strategies that advance The Housing Fund’s organizational goals and objectives.

(615) 551-2751

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Trantell Knight

Trantell Knight

Community Impact Specialist

Trantell is responsible for managing the grant resources provided to individuals and families to help create and maintain affordable and healthy places for low- and moderate-income people to live.

(615) 515-2219

Hannah Belcher

Hannah Belcher

Staff Accountant

Hannah works in the Finance Department with a focus on cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable and special projects as assigned.

(615) 515-2207

Hunter Haislip

Hunter Haislip

Credit Analyst, Community and Economic Development

Hunter provides support to the Community and Economic Development team by providing credit analysis of financial information of real estate developers interested in utilizing THF resources for the development of affordable housing and community facilities.

John Hawk

John Hawk

Staff Accountant

John manages The Housing Fund’s diverse loan portfolio, contributes to building borrower relationships and has the lead responsibility for the processes and databases that THF uses to analyze, service and report on its loan portfolio.

Housing for Today's Tennessee Families

The Housing Fund provides three consumer-lending products to facilitate homeownership for low-to-moderate income buyers: Down Payment Assistance, Shared Equity homeownership, and a Community Land Trust for Davidson County.

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Become an Investor

For lenders interested in partnering with The Housing Fund to meet Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) requirements, please contact our President and CEO Marshall Crawford: mcrawford@thehousingfund.org.

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