About Us: SAHF Staff
William C. Kelly, President
Bill Kelly was a co-founder of SAHF and serves as its President. His prior experience includes 25 years as a partner in the law firm of Latham & Watkins and, before that, service as an advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and as a law clerk to US Court of Appeals Judge Frank Coffin and Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Bill is a director of Ashoka Innovators for the Public, the International Senior Lawyers Project, the Governance Institute, and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. He was also awarded a Purpose Prize Fellowship, which recognizes leaders over 60 who have launched second careers innovating in the social sector, and has received awards for his legal pro bono work from the DC Bar and the American Bar Association.
Contact: bkelly@sahfnet.org or call
Richard Samson, President of SAHF Energy (a division of SAHF)
Rick Samson spent the past two years as a consultant for Genworth Financial Europe analyzing their single family mortgage insurance portfolio. Previously, Rick’s experience includes being a founder and principal of the Federal Practice, Group a Washington-based consulting firm providing affordable housing and real estate related services to Federal departments and agencies such as HUD, USDA, VA and DOD. Earlier experience includes being a partner at Coopers & Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers), counsel and director to the Denver regional office of the Federal Asset Disposition Association and counsel and a principal in a regional real estate development company. A graduate of Colby College and the University of Maine Law School, Rick was a law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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Paul Weech, Senior Vice President for Policy
Paul Weech is a federal housing policy expert with more than 25 years of eclectic experience in the housing and financial services fields. Immediately prior to joining SAHF, Paul worked as a consultant to a diverse client base through Innovative Housing Strategies, LLC – a business he established in September 2008. Before that, Paul served in a variety of affordable housing and public policy leadership positions, including vice president for mission strategy and execution at Fannie Mae, chief of staff at the United States Small Business Administration, and staff director for the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Paul received a master of public policy degree from the Ford School for Public Policy Studies at the University of Michigan in 1981 and a bachelor of arts in political science from Duke University in 1978. He serves on the boards of the Homeownership Preservation Foundation and the Bollinger Foundation.
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Anne Marie Brady, Policy Associate
Anne Marie Brady previously worked as a Research Associate for the Young Foundation in London where she conducted a qualitative study on UK housing policy. Her research cumulated in a report titled Good Neighbours: Housing Associations’ Role in Neighbourhood Governance. Prior to that, Anne Marie worked as a Senior Campaign Finance Analyst for the Federal Election Commission. While at the FEC, Anne Marie was the recipient of a Robert Bosch Foundation fellowship to work in the German federal parliament comparing the laws governing the financing of political parties in the U.S. and Germany. Anne Marie, a recipient of a J. William Fulbright Fellowship, holds a BA in History and German from Creighton University, an MA in Medieval History from Fordham University and an MSc in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics.
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Bonnie Temple, Counsel
Bonnie Temple, a member of the D.C. Bar, has many years experience in private law practice, most recently specializing in representing developers and owners of multifamily properties that receive rental subsidy or mortgage assistance under federal and state affordable housing programs. She also has practiced in commercial and multi-family residential real estate, corporate and partnership law, and project finance. She earned a B.A. from Radcliffe College/Harvard University, a master's degree in urban planning from New York University, and a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
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Sonya Springfield, Administrative Coorindator
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Kevin Rudolph, Law Clerk
Kevin Rudolph is a third-year law student at George Washington University Law School. Prior to joining SAHF, he interned in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and for the Hon. Sheri A. Roman at Queens County Supreme Court in New York. Kevin also holds a BA in Government and History from Bowdoin College.
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Simon Johnson, Law Clerk
Simon Johnson joined SAHF in summer 2007, after his first year at Harvard Law School. Simon continued working with us on our property taxation database throughout his time at school, and returned to our office full-time after graduating in 2009. He has also worked at the Chicago office of Foley & Lardner. In addition to holding a JD in Law from Harvard, Simon holds an A.B. in Linguistics and Government from Harvard College.
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