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iographiesEmily P. Achtenberg is a Boston-based housingconsultant with more than 30 years of experiencein affordable housing preservation transactionsand related research, program design,and policy development. She has assisted nonprofit,resident, and government organizationsin acquiring or retaining over 2,900 affordableunits threatened with expiring use restrictionsand/or subsidy contracts. A nationally-recognizedexpert in subsidized housing preservation,she has been actively involved in thedevelopment of federal and state preservationpolicy and has published a comprehensive manualfor preservation purchasers. She is a frequentspeaker and panel participant at nationaland regional housing preservation conferences.Ann Norton has worked with affordable housingand community development issues for almost30 years. An attorney since 1977, Ann has practicedlaw in various capacities in the public andprivate sectors. She spent eight years in privatepractice where she specialized in communitydevelopment issues and in 1990 she wasappointed to be the first Housing Court Refereein Ramsey County. Currently, she is presidentof the Housing Preservation Project, a publicinterest law firm in St. Paul, MN, whose missionis to preserve federally assisted, privatelyowned affordable rental housing in Minnesotaand across the country. Ann has written extensivelyand is a frequent speaker on a number ofcommunity development and affordable housingrelated issues.biographies 69