-Federal and State Historic Tax Credits -National Register of Historic Places Nominations -Development and Adaptive Reuse -Industrial Heritage & Public Utility Architecture Larson Center for Leadership 2016-2017

Rosemarie Hepner serves as Director of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. For the Center, Ms. Hepner manages the housing awards program, supports the Housing Opportunity Conference, assists with research and publications, and collaborates with ULI’s other departments and District Councils on projects. Before joining ULI in 2017, she worked for two international development nonprofits, most recently as the International Capital Markets Specialist at Habitat for Humanity International. In that role, Ms. Hepner supported the operations for the MicroBuild Fund (Habitat’s housing microfinance fund), and managed the State of Housing Microfinance survey reports. Ms. Hepner holds a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning, where her research focused on low-income housing practices and design. Her thesis examined housing reconstruction in informal settlements post-disaster. Ms. Hepner also holds a B.A. from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

Emily was appointed as the Executive Director of the Michigan State Land Bank Authority by the Authority Board in Oct. 2020. Prior to that appointment, she served as the Vice President of Housing Development for CDC Metro Community Development. Her work there included oversight of all real estate programming including single-family residential renovations, commercial renovations and lease-up, as well as guidance of the CDC’s new real estate division toward multifamily new construction. Emily lives in Flint and serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including Woodland Park Academy, the McFarlan Charitable Corporation, Friends of the Alley, and 100K Ideas. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Central Michigan University and a Master’s of Business Administration from Detroit Mercy. She founded Hostel Detroit in 2011 as an education-focused social enterprise which has had over 15,000 guests from 82 countries as of today. She was also a 2013 Michigan Political Leadership Program Fellow and has worked in various community economic development and real estate-focused roles since 2006 at CEDAM, Wayne Metro CAA, Detroit Regional Chamber, City of Oak Park, MEDC, and Consumers Energy.