Kamilah Parker McAfee is currently working as a Development Associate with Forest City Washington in Washington, DC. In this capacity, Ms. Parker provides support on several large scale, mixed-use (i.e., office, residential, and retail) projects in the Baltimore-Washington-Richmond metropolitan areas. Ms. Parker’s primary responsibility is working on the Southeast Federal Center project which is a public-private partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration to develop over 2,800 units of housing and 1.8 million square feet of office and 400,000 square feet of retail space over the next 10 to 15 years. Ms. Parker is taking a lead on the development of one of the residential buildings to be built in Phase 1 as well as the development of interim uses for the site, such as parking, before the final build-out. Ms. Parker is also acting as owner’s representative on the Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg HOPE VI project. This role includes monitoring ongoing construction of the two (2) public housing Seniors buildings that Ms. Parker financed while holding a prior post at the DC Housing Finance Agency and the development of almost 400 mixed-income town homes, two (2) office buildings, and 800 additional mixed-income multifamily units.

Prior to her employment with Forest City Washington, Ms. Parker was the Director of Public Finance at the D.C. Housing Finance Agency (DCHFA). Ms. Parker was promoted to that position from an entry level position over the five (5) years she worked at the DCHFA. The Public Finance Group is primarily responsible for the origination, underwriting, structuring and closing of tax-exempt multi-family mortgage revenue bond transactions. During her time at the DCHFA, Ms. Parker worked on 15 bond transactions totaling over $180 million in bonds that financed the production of over 2,000 low-income housing tax credit units in the District of Columbia. Ms. Parker also has experience as a Financial Consultant with BearingPoint, Inc. (formerly KPMG Consulting), primarily engaged in contracts for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. She worked on the team that developed the Financial Assessment Lab (FAL) within the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) of the Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC). Ms. Parker worked for KPMG for over 6 years concurrent with her successful pursuit of a B.S. in Finance and New and Small Business Development from Georgetown University. To supplement her undergraduate degree, Ms. Parker is currently a candidate for a Masters in Business Administration at American University.