Whitney Foutz is a Project Manager at the Jonathan Rose Companies in New York City, an organization that shares her interest in the development of socially and environmentally responsible communities. She is primarily responsible for 85 units of green, affordable housing in Harlem, to be completed in late 2007.

Whitney Foutz has over nine years of professional and academic experience in the fields of architecture, construction management, city planning, and real estate. Ms. Foutz began her career in the built environment as a Project Engineer for the Clark Construction Group, supervising the construction of an office tower and performing-arts theater in the Washington, DC area. After leaving Clark to attend graduate school, Ms. Foutz worked as a research consultant for the Fannie Mae Foundation, collecting information on the role of cities as entrepreneurial partners in urban development. Ms. Foutz built her experience in affordable housing development as an assistant project manager at The Community Builders, conducting financial feasibility analysis and due diligence for two Boston-area projects and managing several trades for a construction-phase HOPE VI project in Durham, North Carolina. At West Angeles Community Development Corporation, Ms. Foutz was involved in the development of the first new Class A office project to be constructed in South Los Angeles in 50 years. Most recent to being selected for a CURExPenn fellowship, Ms. Foutz worked on a short-term contract with the Jonathan Rose Companies.

Ms. Foutz received a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia and recently completed a Master of City Planning and Master of Science in Real Estate Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2005. While at MIT, she served as a research assistant for the New Century Cities Initiative, a multi-disciplinary symposium on the topic of real estate value in the digital world. Her other research work includes a consulting project for the Korean government on the design of a proposed science city, and an economic development project in Vientiane, Laos. Ms. Foutz has presented her thesis research, “Patterns for Working and Living in the 21st Century: Real Estate Development for the New Workplace”, internationally. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.