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Jennifer Litwak is the Executive Director of Housing on Merit and has successfully managed the closing of over $1.3 billion in multifamily acquisitions and overseen the development, preservation and renovation of over 8,882 units of affordable housing nationwide.\u00a0 She is an active member of the American Bar Association\u2019s Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law and serves as Vice Chair of the Residential, Multi-Family, and Special Use Group.\u00a0 Ms. Litwak also serves as the American Bar Association’s Section Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission’s Restrictive Covenants in Deeds Committee.<\/p>\n

In addition, Ms. Litwak serves as the Vice Chair of Urban Land Institute\u2019s Affordable & Workforce Housing Council.\u00a0 She has taken on numerous roles with Commercial Real Estate Women Network (CREW) and served as an appointed member of various National Committees including, Network Industry Research, Member Education, and Scholarship Selection since 2016.\u00a0 In 2020, Ms. Litwak was inducted into the CREW Visionaries program.<\/p>\n

Ms. Litwak is recognized as an innovative thinker and disrupter within the affordable housing industry.\u00a0 In 2019, Ms. Litwak became a Fellow of the American Bar foundation, a global honorary society of legal professionals and scholars who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, and received the Gamechanger Award from Connected Women of Influence.\u00a0 She was also selected by GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum as a\u00a0Women of Influence\u00a0for her achievements in the Humanitarian category in 2020 and in the Independent\/Non-Business Professional of the Year category in 2019. \u00a0In 2017, Ms. Litwak was profiled by the Daily Transcript\u2019s Influential Women Report as one of the most influential women in San Diego County, and in 2016 she was chosen as one of the Top 100 Business Professionals in San Diego.\u00a0 Ms. Litwak was recognized as one of Real Estate Forum\u2019s Fifty Under 40 in the commercial real estate industry in 2015.<\/p>\n

Locally, Ms. Litwak serves as the President of CREW Building Futures Foundation.\u00a0 An avid philanthropist, she is a member of San Diego Lions of Judah, San Diego Women’s Foundation and Women Give San Diego.<\/p>\n

Ms. Litwak earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wake Forest University, where she graduated magna cum laude, and holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.\u00a0 She is a graduate of the prestigious Development Finance Certified Professional (DFCP) program of the Council of Development Finance Agencies and completed an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.\u00a0 Ms. Litwak is also an active member of 5050 Women on Boards, Corporate Directors Forum, Junior League of San Diego, and National Women\u2019s History Museum\u2019s Council XIX.<\/p>\n