Marvalette Hunter

Marvalette Hunter

Marvalette Hunter is a director with Baker Tilly’s public sector advisory practice. She works collaboratively with clients on a wide range of strategic initiatives, including affordable housing, economic development, strategic planning, real estate development and finance, debt structuring, community planning, transportation and infrastructure.

  • Architecture and urban design, city and regional planning, real estate development, multifamily tax credit and tax exempt bond financing, public housing authority RAD conversions, HUD consolidated Plans (CDBG, HOME, HOPWA, ESG), tax increment finance districts, management districts, enterprise zones, tax abatements and public/private partnerships (P3)
  • Served eight years as chief of staff for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner
  • Former chief development officer, Harris County Housing Authority
  • Former VP of community lending, for a Seattle based American savings bank holding company
  • Executive director of a not-for-profit development corporation and dominion CDC
  • American Leadership Forum, LV
  • Texas Affordable Housing Task Force
  • Texas Commission on Jail Standards
  • Near Northwest Management District, board member
  • Holocaust Museum Houston, trustee
  • Rockwell Fund, trustee
  • NHS Jack and Jill of America, Inc., past president and national legislative chair

  • “Faith-Based Affordable Housing Development and Resource Guide”, co-author, Fannie Mae Foundation, September 2005
  • Top 30 Most Influential Women in Houston, 2018

Location

Houston, TX

Education

Master of Regional Planning

Cornell University

(Ithaca, New York)

Bachelor of Architecture

Florida A&M University

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