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Welcome to the Diamond Team!!!

Diamond and Associates is thrilled to announce three phenomenal additions to our team: Maggy Jares, Catherine Stokes, and AJ Jenkins.



Maggy Jares



Maggy Jares joined Diamond and Associates in September as Vice President– Midwest. Maggy has been working in affordable housing development consulting since 2007. Maggy’s experience includes structuring deal financing to ensure long-term financial viability, with 4% and 9% LIHTC financing or Permanent Supportive Housing funding (IL), assembling development teams, preparing successful applications for competitive scoring rounds of public funding, securing gap financing, negotiating with the public and private lenders for deal terms, and seeing deals through to financial closing and cost certification and close-out. Maggy is leading D&A’s expansion into the Midwest, with her deep experience in Illinois (including the City of Chicago) and Iowa. We are thrilled to have her on our team!



Catherine Stokes



Catherine Stokes joined Diamond and Associates in September as Vice President - Project Management. Catherine brings over 20 years of affordable housing development and community development experience, including public, private, and non-profit experience in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. She has extensive experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of design, finance and construction professionals on 9% and 4% LIHTC rental projects, including mixed-income and mixed-finance redevelopment projects and RAD redevelopments, as well as single-family homeownership projects. Her past work experience includes leading the Baltimore office of Telesis Corporation and several roles within New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), among other roles. We are so happy to welcome Catherine to our team!



AJ Jenkins



AJ Jenkins joined Diamond and Associates in July as an Assistant Project Manager after interning with us in 2023 and early 2024. We were so delighted to welcome AJ to the team full-time after her graduation from the Master of City Planning Program at the University of Pennsylvania! AJ provides essential support to client project teams as they work to bring affordable housing developments to fruition. In her short tenure at D&A, AJ has already worked on FHLB AHP applications, 4% and 9% LIHTC applications in Pennsylvania and Preliminary Project Assessments in Illinois.

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