Line Algoed is an urban anthropologist specializing in urban planning, housing and community development. She is a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, studying collective forms of land tenure in the Caribbean. She works with the Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña in Puerto Rico on the exchange of knowledge on land rights with communities across Latin America and the Caribbean. She is also a director at the Centre for Community Land Trust Innovation and co-editor of the book On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust. Prior to this, Ms. Algoed was a program manager at World Habitat where she evaluated the Caño CLT for the World Habitat Awards, which they won in 2016. She holds a Master of Cultural Anthropology from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and a Master of Sociology from the London School of Economics.

Carlos Claussell is a Senior Program Officer on the Institute for Sustainable Communities’ U.S. Program team. In this role, he focuses on the advancement of climate-focused, equity-driven and community-centered strategies at the national level, prioritizing BIPOC communities. An Environmental Leadership Program Senior Fellow, Carlos has worked as a project manager, engineer, and urban designer for public transportation and water infrastructure projects in Philadelphia, and Puerto Rico. 
Prior to joining Institute for Sustainable Communities, Carlos served as an Urban Conservation Project Manager for The Nature Conservancy North America’s Cities Network, implementing green stormwater infrastructure projects with a triple bottom line approach in Philadelphia, under the City’s Green City Clean Waters Plan, first municipal plan in the U.S. that prioritizes nature-based solutions to manage stormwater and to reduce urban water pollution. He also served as Program Coordinator for Urbanism & Infrastructure with Caño Martin Peña ENLACE Project Corporation, an award-winning, community-led initiative for sustainable development and equitable climate resilience in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he was responsible for advancing key transportation and water infrastructure projects in benefit of the Caño Martin Peña's Community Land Trust – the world's first and only informal settlement turned CLT and winner of the UN's World Habitat Award in 2016. Carlos holds a master’s degree in architecture and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Puerto Rico.  

R. Denise Everson has a passion for architectural and interior design which is both sustainable and beautiful. She started her design career in 2002 in her native Decatur, Georgia at R. L. Brown & Associates and has continued to practice design for over 15 years. In 2017, she joined CURE Architects as a Partner where she continues to lend design expertise to non-profit organizations, businesses, and individuals. 
In addition to her work with CURE, she is an adjunct professor at the University of the District of Columbia where she teaches Building Information Modeling. From 2015 to 2016, Denise consulted with the Connecticut Green Bank, working on an innovative multifamily energy efficiency pilot. And from 2008 to 2015, she served with the District of Columbia Housing Authority as a Redevelopment Project Specialist, Project Architect, and Sustainability Liaison. As the Sustainability Liaison, the first position of its kind in D.C., Denise represented DCHA on the Mayor’s Green Cabinet and DC’s Green Building Advisory Council; coordinated green improvements and eco-friendly measures with local and federal agencies; advised the Executive Director on sustainability matters including policy; and led efforts to standardize DCHA’s building products.

Brett Theodos is a senior fellow and director of the Community Economic Development Hub at the Urban Institute. He has done ten years of research on shared equity homeownership and helped start the Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington DC, where he serves on the board. He is studying how capital flows (or fails to flow) into communities, including the role of mission finance actors and has conducted studies of neighborhood change and geographic mobility.

His work focuses on economic and community development, neighborhood change, affordable homeownership, consumer finance, and program evaluation and learning. His research includes evaluations of the Economic Development Administration, New Markets Tax Credit, Small Business Administration loan and investment programs, Opportunity Zones, and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Choice Neighborhoods, Community Development Block Grant, and Section 108 programs.