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Community TrailBlazers


Mar 29, 2020

Sharon Wilson Geno was fresh out of law school and working for a firm when she realized it wasn’t the path she wanted. So she changed course, earning a graduate degree in urban studies and went to then went to work at shaping housing policy in her native St. Louis.

In discussing her journey, she details the patience and persistence in a major housing development around Washington, DC’s Nationals Park region, a neighborhood she lives that’s been transformed through smart housing goals and investments. Geno discusses what it takes to keep projects moving each day and ongoing growth areas in housing policy.