Maria has over 25 years of experience in affordable housing and community development. Her specialties include affordable housing finance, urban planning, and redevelopment. Maria has extensive experience in an array of housing financing programs, including LIHTC, tax exempt bond financing, historic tax credits, CDBG/HOME, and FHLB AHP, and she manages development projects from concept through to completion. Prior to working with Stone Sherick, Maria worked for ten years at with a private developer where she managed several projects located throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland; in San Francisco with Seifel Consulting, a real estate and urban economics consulting firm; and for the City of Philadelphia as a Housing Analyst. Maria has a Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College and a Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania.