Forty-Six New Community Leaders Selected for Bingham Fellows Class of 2025

From a very competitive pool of candidates, forty-six community leaders have been selected to participate in the Leadership Louisville Center’s Bingham Fellows Class of 2025. The topic for this year’s Bingham Fellows will be: A Place to Call Home: Innovative Workforce Housing Solutions, focused on Louisville’s housing crisis for the working class.

Every year, the Leadership Louisville Center seeks to address one of our community’s most pertinent issues through the Bingham Fellows program. This year’s Bingham Fellows will examine the complexities of these issues while engaging with community leaders, experts, and stakeholders to develop innovative solutions. The cohort will focus on a variety of factors including:

• Financial incentives for developers
• Innovative homeownership programs
• Zoning regulations
• Barriers to housing access
• Advocacy and policy development

Members of the Bingham Fellows Class of 2025 are:

• Francisco Alzuru, Founder Manager | Bluegrass Multifamily
• Jeff Ames, Corporate Banker | Republic Bank & Trust Company
• Juva Barber, Executive Vice President | Building Industry Association of Greater Louisville
• Cara Bland, Director for The Institute for Health Equity | Norton Healthcare
• Philip Britt, Associate Vice President, Product Management | Humana Inc.
• Carolyn Callahan, Chief of Communications and Community Relations | Jefferson County Public Schools
• JD Carey, Executive Director | Apartment Association of Kentucky
• Rowan Claypool, President | Teach Kentucky
• Kristin Faurest, CEO and President | River Fields, Inc.
• Brandon Fields, Owner | Twin Spires Remodeling
• Kristy Flippins-Bartlett, Founder/CEO | Option to Success Inc.
• Laura Grabowski, Director | Office of Housing and Community Development
• Terra Greenwell, Chief Academic Officer | Jefferson County Public Schools
• Michael Gross, Director, Development | LDG Development
• Andrew Hawes, President & CEO | The Housing Partnership, Inc
• Michael Holwerda, Senior Vice President | Fifth Third Bank
• Clay Kannapell, Director of Global Logistics Brown Forman | Brown-Forman Corporation
• Andrea Kinser, SVP, Originations | PNC Bank
• Harrison Kirby, Director of Strategic Initiatives | Community Foundation of Louisville, Inc.
• Barry Kornstein, Consultant
• Rob Locke, Chief Executive Officer | Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville
• Ra’Shann Martin, Executive Director | John Center
• Councilwoman Paula McCraney, District 7 Councilwoman | Louisville Metro Council
• Lena Muldoon, Principal | LSM Strategies, LLC
• Joshua O’Bryan, Partner | Frost Brown Todd
• Denise O’Donnell, Chief Financial Officer | Scope CFO
• Jody Offutt, President of Property Management | Denton Floyd Real Estate Group
• Liz Pratt, Director External & Internal Communications | LG&E and KU Energy
• Sumedha Rao, Executive Director, Mayor’s Office of Sustainability | Louisville Metro Government
• Tamara Reif, Senior Director of Housing Services | Volunteers of America Mid-States | VOA
• Brittney Ridge, Chief of Action | Bennu Development
• DeOndrea Robinson, Owner | Jump Start Realty and Development LLC
• Jean Romano, Vice President | Seven Counties Services Inc.
• Hunt Rounsavall, Owner | Rounsavall Title Group, LLC
• Jon Salomon, Partner | Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP
• Joseph Seiler, Senior Vice President | People’s Bank
• Michael Springer, Housing Program Manager | Blueprint502 formerly YouthBuild Louisville
• Josh Staten, Senior Director – Business Development & Real Estate | River Ridge Development Authority
• Curtis Stauffer, Managing Director-Housing Contract Administration | Kentucky Housing Corporation
• Shalini Sutaria, Associate VP, Technology Solutions | Humana Inc.
• Christine Tarquinio, VP of Marketing | Goodwill Industries of Kentucky
• Clare Wallace, Executive Director | South Louisville Community Ministries
• Clark Welch, Vice President of Economic Development | Greater Louisville Inc.
• Eric Whitmore, Director of Planning + Strategy | Framework
• Adonna Wickliffe, CEO/Executive Director | Milestone Services
• Josh Williams, Director of Strong Households | Metro United Way

About the Bingham Fellows program:

The Bingham Fellows program is the advanced leadership program of the Leadership Louisville Center. Created in 1988 through a $500,000 endowment from the Mary and Barry Bingham Sr. Fund, the Fellows are social entrepreneurs who have the imagination and talent needed to gather critical resources and create social change. Side by side with peers, participants work to develop dynamic and innovative solutions to our community’s most pressing challenges. The 2025 cohort is the 33rd class of Bingham Fellows, who have an impressive track record of providing community issues with visibility and momentum.

The Fellows don’t ponder what might be. They roll up their sleeves, shine a spotlight on an issue, and put new ideas to work. Their recent impact includes projects such as CitySpots, which is turning spaces into places to create a more vibrant downtown, and You Decide, Kentucky!, a statewide initiative working to empower local governments to decide what revenue streams will improve the quality of life in their communities. Some additional high-impact projects since program’s creation include the West Louisville community development organization OneWest, regular Café Louie conversations with elected officials at Louisville Free Public Library locations, a sustainable model for neighborhood ‘Little Free Libraries,’ and City Champs, a talent attraction and retention program now managed by Greater Louisville Inc. The impact of the Fellows goes back to the 1990s with the creation of The Housing Partnership, construction of the Presbyterian Community Center, growth of local farmers’ markets, and numerous other positive outcomes.