As a Community Organizer with Piedmont Housing Alliance, Claudette designs, organizes and sustains a framework for resident participation in the planning for redevelopment of Friendship Court, a low–income housing development located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Claudette has nearly thirty years of experience working in housing, neighborhoods, and community development. She has held the position of Senior Planner with both Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville, as well as positions of housing counselor, loan assistant, and multifamily housing representative with Housing Opportunities Made Equal and HUD. She also taught a short course on block grant funding to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Virginia – School of Architecture in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning. Claudette earned her Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from the University of Connecticut and her Master of Planning with a concentration in Urban Development from the University of Virginia.