Gregg Colburn is an assistant professor of real estate in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. Gregg entered academia after spending the first seventeen years of his professional life in the private sector. During this time, Gregg worked as an investment banker and private equity professional for leading firms such as Goldman Sachs and Citadel Investment Group. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Gregg’s additional academic training includes an M.S.W. from the University of Minnesota, an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and a B.A. in Economics and Management from Albion College. Gregg enjoys teaching courses in housing, economics, and finance at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Uche Okezie is the Director of Real Estate Development at HomeSight, a nonprofit Community Development Corporation in Southeast Seattle. After graduating from the University of New Orleans with a BA in Urban Studies, she obtained her Master of Urban Planning from the University of Washington in 2001. She joined HomeSight in 2002 as an Associate Project Manager and now oversees their affordable homeownership and community facility development projects as well as the project management services HomeSight provides to non-profit and community-based organizations in the Puget Sound area. She is also a certified Project Management Professional and Construction Manager and is currently developing HomeSight’s affordable homeownership cooperative project at Othello Square.