May 2007

• Nkosi delivers presentation on panel - "Affordable Housing & Affordable
Communities for Everybody: Can our children afford to live in the community
they grew up in?" to the National Organization of Black County Officials (NOBCO)
23rd Annual Economic Development Conference – Charlotte NC


February 2007

• Nkosi becomes a Loaned Executive and Senior Advisor for
Equitable Development - City of New Orleans

January 2007

• Nkosi is included in the 2006 Issues of "Who's Who of Black
Atlanta" under Community Leaders page 491


November 2006

• Nkosi, through ANDP, creates and hosts Housing Implementation
Developers Summit - bring together local and national housing researchers
and practitioners to set the framework for building the 400,000+ units needed
in the metro Atlanta Region (186,000 units need for workers earning $40,000
or less per year)

• Nkosi presents Mixed Income Housing & Health for the Joint Center
for Political & Economic Studies - Health Policy Institute Design Lab 3 –
New Orleans

• Nkosi presents Who is Being Excluded from TOD [Transit Orientated
Development]?" at Rail-Volution 2006 – Chicago, IL


October 2006


• Nkosi, with Dan Reuter of ARC, presents the ANDP, ARC and
DCA status on the joint creation of the Regional Housing Data
Center – (goal: raising funds for the center) to the Greater Atlanta
Homebuilders “Development Council”

August 2006


• Nkosi participates in panel on Equitable Development & Mixed
Income Communities: Best Practices & Scenarios - University of California
Berkeley Alumni House – Center for Community Innovation: A Summit of
Bay Area and Key National Experts


April 2006


• Nkosi becomes a Life Fellow of the “Centres for Leadership
and Public Values”, Graduate School of Business – University of
Cape Town, South Africa and the Terry Sanford Institute of
Public Policy – Duke University, United States Emerging Leaders
Programme (see December 2004 news below)


• Nkosi presents Making the Case for Mixed Income Housing & Mixed
Use Development to The Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership
Program - Alumni Network (Research Center for Leadership In Action - Robert
F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service New York University), Hyatt
Regency Atlanta, GA



January 2006

• Under the Auspices of ANDP, Nkosi is asked and agrees to
join the Board of Directors of South Face Energy Institute,
Atlanta, Georgia


• Nkosi delivers Keynote Address to Virginia Society American
Institute of Architects (AIA), Virginia LISC and Virginia
Development Authority Symposium on Mixed Use and Mixed
Income Development, Richmond, VA January 12th



December 2005

• Input and commentary by Nkosi included in Federal Home Loan Bank
of Atlanta “Partnerships” Quarterly Newsletter on Affordable Housing’s
New Look: Sustainable Design, Historic Rehabilitation, and Mixed-Income
Communities will shape the future of Affordable Housing Design



November 2005

• Article by Nkosi “Affordable Housing: Billion of Dollars in Possible Profits
in the Development of Mixed Income Housing in Metro Atlanta” is published
by The Greater Atlanta Home Builders – Atlanta Building News [pg 14-17]
November Issue http://atlantahomebuilders.com/materials/Nov05ABNFinal.pdf


• Nkosi serves as panelist on “Partnerships and Coalition Building” at
Georgia Conservancy Blue Prints Annual Conference [Common Ground],
Atlanta, GA.


• Nkosi serves as panelist on “Mixed Income Communities” The Enterprise
Foundation [Enterprise] Conference, Washington, DC



July 2005

• Nkosi delivers Keynote Address to the Greater Atlanta Home Builders
Association “What it Take’s to be Leaders” (contributors: Pam Sessions,
Hedgewood Properties, Lance Buhl, Duke University, Raymond Christman, FHLB,
Myles Smith, Georgia Power, Bill Bolling, ACFB/RLF & Hattie Dorsey, ANDP)



June 2005

• Nkosi delivers presentation on Making the Case Mixed Income Housing &
Mixed Use Development to Federal Reserve Bank – Policy Advisory Committee,
Washington DC


• Nkosi delivers presentation on Making the Case Mixed Income
Housing & Mixed Use Development at University of Georgia Conference –
 Finding Solutions: Latinos and the Socio-Economic Development of the
Southeast, Employment, Labor and Community Development



April 2005

• Nkosi serves on panel: Regional Roles for Community Development Organizations
(CDCs) – Panel Resource Expert on Housing Policy (Contributors: Marina Peed, The
Impact Group, & Young Hughley, Reynoldstown Revitalization Corporation) New Jersey Public
Policy Research Institute’s (NJPPRI) Emerging Issues in Community Development:
Bridging the Regional Divide, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ



December 2004

• Nkosi was selected as a Fellow of the Emerging Leaders Program Duke University –
University of Cape Town, South Africa

(April 2005 – April 2006)

 Nkosi was selected as one of eight Americans in the 2005 class of 23 Emerging Leaders Program (ELP)
composed of Americans and Southern Africans to participate in the year long Emerging Leaders Program.
A joint initiative of The United States – Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values at Duke
University – Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the University of Cape Town – the Graduate School
of Business.

The Purpose of the Emerging Leaders Program is to enhance the capacity of mid-career leaders to contribute
to the empowerment of their communities and the transformation of their countries.  Central to the Program’s
work is promoting those public values essential to the health and sustainability of democracy and civil society.

For more detail about the ELP Fellowship visit (Duke University)
http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/clpv/index.html and/or (University of Cape Town)
http://www.gsb.uct.ac.za/gsbwebb/default.asp?intpagenr=144