Max Weselcouch is the Data Manager and a Research Analyst at the Furman Center. Prior to joining the Furman Center, she was a research assistant at RESI of Towson University, a non-profit economics research group located in Baltimore, Maryland. While at RESI, she devoted most of her time to studying welfare and subsidized childcare expenses in Maryland. Max received a B.A. with honors in Mathematics and Dance from Goucher College in 2005. She also spent a year studying biostatistics at John Hopkins University as a mental health trainee sponsored by the National Institute on Mental Health.

Benjamin Dulchin is the Executive Director of the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD), a membership association of more then ninety neighborhood-based groups in New York City committed to the preservation and production of affordable housing. At ANHD, Benjamin has led successful efforts to support affordable housing in all its aspects, including increasing funding for development, improving government housing production policies, expanding funding resources for community organizing, and strengthening tenants’ rights laws. Benjamin has been a housing activist and community organizer for eighteen years, with previous jobs as Director of Organizing at the Fifth Avenue Committee in Brooklyn, and as a tenant organizer on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Mr. Warren is a founding member of Workforce Housing Advisors. Workforce Housing Advisors is a development firm with a specialty in repositioning distressed multifamily assets as affordable housing. Workforce has several projects underway including the renovation of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the Birthplace of Hip Hop. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Warren had a long career in the public sector. He served for seven years as First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. He spent his last decade at HPD with direct responsibility for both the management and renovation and sale of this portfolio and oversaw a decline in the inventory of over 95% during that time. Mr. Warren also supervised the City’s Mitchell Lama and Asset Management portfolio for a ten-year period. In addition, Mr. Warren managed the City’s Code Enforcement efforts for eight years. Mr. Warren also has served as an adjunct lecturer in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College. He has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.