About Us

Board Members

Andrea Calderon, Board President

Andrea Calderón serves as a Senior Program Advisor, for the City Data Alliance program at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence (GovEx), bringing with her over a decade’s worth of experience in municipal systems. Andrea supports cities in using data for decision making to increase resident impact. Formerly the Race and Equity Data Analyst in the City of Albuquerque’s Office of Equity and Inclusion, Andrea's has experience in developing data products that, when leveraged, can direct intervention strategies that support communities disproportionately impacted by inequities and that have historically faced underinvestment.
Andrea earned her Master’s in Community and Regional Planning at the University of New Mexico with a focus on Community Development and Indigenous Planning and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Andrea is a proud first-generation immigrant from Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Miriam Hicks, Board Vice President

Miriam's journey to Sol Housing in 2018 was fueled by a profound dedication to creating affordable housing solutions. With over two decades of architectural experience at Dekker/Perich/Sabatini in Albuquerque, she brings a wealth of knowledge in entitlements, affordable housing projects, construction administration, and design. As a licensed Architect, Miriam excels in guiding projects from initial funding applications through to successful community occupancy. Her expertise in coordination and communication ensures seamless project execution. Miriam holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and actively contributes to her community by serving on multiple community and governmental boards focused on affordable housing and equity. Outside of her professional and civic commitments, Miriam enjoys spending quality time with her family, engaging in backyard farming, and pursuing various healthy living and homesteading projects.

Renia Ehrenfeucht, Board Treasurer

China Osborn, Board Secretary

China Osborn is an accomplished and dedicated Urban Planner and Development Project Manager, with a passion for missing-middle and affordable housing urban-infill projects.   With more than 20 years of professional experience, China’s work has taken her nationally and internationally, from the San Francisco Bay area to Texas, and all across Mexico, where she spent almost 17 years of her career. Now, having returned to the U.S., China is a Redevelopment Project Manager for the City of Albuquerque’s Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency, specializing in Development Incentive Programs, such as the Redevelopment Tax Abatement and Gap Financing, that help bring much-needed housing to Albuquerque.  China is excited to join the AAHC Board as Secretary and to bring her years of knowledge and her passion to supporting and growing the organization.

John Lewis, Board Member

Melissa Toledo-Ontiveros, Board Member

I have dedicated my life to helping people throughout New Mexico. I am employed at Community Action Agency as director of thriving families where I work with a team focusing on social determinants of health, narrowing the economic gap for families who live and work in colonias, rural, and frontier NM. I have served and lead community asset and needs assessments, developed and evaluated programs throughout NM. I serve as a chair of a countywide housing taskforce where we are addressing social, economic and health issues. We recently passed an affordable housing GO BOND for six million dollars. I sit on several American Public Health Association boards. I serve as NM Public Health Assoc. Affiliate Representative to APHA
Governing Council. I serve as Chair of a Behavioral Health Countywide board where we are addressing behavioral health and substance abuse in marginalized communities. I work on a regional initiate to address poverty by working with policy makers to pass policy that will increase opportunities in workforce, economic development, education, transportation. I sit on
a statewide Workforce Economic Initiative Council. Most recently, I was nominated to serve on New Mexico’s Economic Development on the Advisory Board to the Sustainable Economy Task
Force. I also have a contract working with a cohort of state and national philanthropist to address race and gender healing in New Mexico.

 

Staff

Brittany Espinoza, Operations Consultant, KW Consulting, LLC

Jason Espinoza, Operations  Consultant, KW Consulting, LLC

Funders