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Staff and BoardSheldon Cooper, President
Sheldon Cooper has been the Executive Director of Homestead Community Land Trust since 1999. Cooper is deeply connected with local and regional housing efforts. He is a founding member and President of the Northwest Community Land Trust Coalition and sits on the Board of the King County Housing Development Consortium, where he chaired its Incentive Zoning affinity group during 2007 and 2008. In addition to promoting permanently affordable homeownership, he loves spending time in the great outdoors with his family. Paul Schissler, Treasurer
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Paul Schissler is a community development planner with over 25 years of experience in Northwest Washington. Paul was a co-founder of Kulshan Community Land Trust, organized in 1999 to serve Whatcom County, because home prices were increasing much faster than wages, making homeownership unaffordable for many working people. Paul sees permanently affordable homeownership as a vital component of a healthy economy and recommends the Community Land Trust strategy a good way to protect the community’s investment in homes for future generations of homebuyers. When we create homes people can afford, close to where they work, we can take pressure off the farmland and natural areas that people want to protect. 
On staff with Proud Ground (formerly known as Portland CLT) since 2004, Katie Ullrich has a Masters in Social Work. Katie is certified for homeownership and foreclosure intervention counseling by the NeighborWorks Center for Homeownership Education & Counseling. Katie provides all homebuyer counseling and education services; leads program innovations; and is responsible for lender relations. Katie enjoys hiking with her daughter, traveling, kite flying and passing time on a sunny front porch.
Nancy DeVaux, Executive Director of San Juan Community Home Trust since 2005, was also a founding board member in 2001. Nancy moved to San Juan Island in 1975, with a bachelor’s degree in Human Ecology. She's worked for local nonprofit organizations for over 18 years, and earned a masters degree in Political Science in 1999. She loves being able to help other islanders find stable and sustainable housing.