Anne Mavity to speak at the Rotary Club of Edina (noon)

Anne Mavity from Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative will be our program speaker for December 4th.

She will focus on the homeless shelter for youth scheduled to be constructed at 66th Street in Edina, called the 66 West Apartments.

Meetings at held at 12:00 noon at the Edina Country Club. Meetings are open to the public and the fee for lunch and program is $18.

In the newly created role as director of new projects, Anne oversees Beacon’s housing development and congregational organizing staff and the development of new service partnerships.

Her career includes positions as a senior program officer for the Corporation for Supportive Housing; interim assistant to Hennepin County Commissioner Gail Dorfman; executive director of Minneapolis’s Central Neighborhood Association; and most recently, as president of Mavity Consulting where she served nonprofits including affordable and supportive housing providers.

From 1990 to 1993 she staffed the Congressional Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, developing and writing federal housing, community and economic development legislation under Committee Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez.

Mavity earned a bachelor of arts from Lawrence University with a double major in Slavic language and literature, and government, as well as a master of public policy with a special emphasis in statistics and economic analysis from Georgetown University. She is married with two children and lives in St. Louis Park, where she is serving her second term as a member of the city council.