Dena R. Al-Khatib serves as the first Executive Director of the Chicago Community Land Trust, a non-profit organization created by the City of Chicago to preserve the long-term affordability of units created through City programs. Prior to joining DOH, Ms. Al-Khatib was the Senior Loan / Program Officer at the Chicago Community Loan Fund. Before that Ms. Al-Khatib worked for Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation, first in housing development, where her work resulted in the creation of 17 homes and two-flats, 44 affordable rental units and 118 affordable cooperative units. She subsequently served as Bickerdike’s Program Manager for the LISC/MacArthur funded New Communities Program (NCP) in Humboldt Park. In this position she coordinated a community, quality of life planning process and helped secure over $1.4 million dollars in public and private funds for community programs including an employment center, youth summer programs, a community land trust, a homeownership research project and a comprehensive community health initiative. Ms. Al-Khatib holds a Master’s of Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BA in Writing-intensive English and Psychology from Marquette University.


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