Brooklyn, NY
Carmen Maldonado manages the fund’s operational and business development efforts in the Northeast region. Carmen also designs and implements education and enrichment programs for the firm’s multifamily housing communities.
Prior to Turner-Agassi, Carmen was the Director of Real Estate for the KIPP Foundation where she supported and advised the national KIPP network of schools in the real estate process. During her career at KIPP, she devised the Foundation’s Early Stage Revolving Loan Fund, for short-term tenant improvements, and the KIPP Foundation Credit Enhancement Program (KCEP) which in four years leveraged $80 million in charter school leases and loans.
Prior to KIPP, Carmen was a Program Officer for the New York City office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, working with community development corporations across NYC to secure financing for affordable housing and community facilities. Ms. Maldonado is a graduate of Baruch College (M.A. Public Administration) and of the University of Pennsylvania (M.S.Ed. Elementary Education, B.A. Communications).
