Catherine Stokes

Prior to joining Diamond, from 2008-2024, Catherine was a developer with Telesis Corporation, Homes for America, and Commercial Construction. For most of that period, Catherine was the Director of the Baltimore Office for Telesis Corporation, where she completed several RAD redevelopments as well as a range of 4% and 9% LIHTC developments, both preservation and new construction. Additionally, Catherine oversaw a large scale, multi-phase neighborhood redevelopment project comprised of both homeownership and multifamily rental development. Catherine has had responsibility for projects throughout the development life cycle, from conception through lease-up or sale. She has extensive experience working with community partners and meeting with community groups and leading multi-disciplinary teams of design, finance and construction professionals on both single-family homeownership projects and mixed-income and mixed-finance redevelopment projects.

Prior to joining Telesis, Catherine was with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) where she served as the Program Manager of HPD’s HUD Multifamily Preservation Loan Program. In this capacity, she was responsible for the direction of a new loan program targeted to finance the rehabilitation of large distressed multifamily buildings. Prior to that, she was a Project Manager in HPD’s Division of Special Needs Housing. From 2003 to 2005, she was a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund).

Catherine is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received her Master’s in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Catherine currently serves on the Board of the Maryland Affordable Housing Coalition, as a Commissioner on the Baltimore City Affordable Housing Trust Fund and as a Trustee with The GreenMount School Board of Trustees.