CHA STAFF
JEN-AI STOKESBARY
Real Estate Projects Manager
I am grateful for CHA’s work and thrilled to help create more housing for Chaffee County residents, and to help more residents move-in to homes. Friends and family have struggled with chronic homelessness and benefitted from supportive housing and affordable housing.
I am a first-time developer of inclusionary homeownership units in partnership with Chaffee Housing Trust. I have an MBA from CU Boulder and am a Project Management Professional. I worked in start-ups and early stage business for 14 years and am comfortable wearing multiple hats to create impactful outcomes.
While it’s impossible for me to choose one favorite spot in Chaffee County, I’ve been loving surfing Scout Wave 2.0 in the quieter low-water months, and also at higher water with heaps of elated surfing friends.
BECKY LONGBERG
Housing Programs Manager
After an up-ending year and a half of covid, I was looking for meaningful and fulfilling work that excercises my wide range of experience and skills. In my life, I've been both a homeowner and looked down the barrel of homelessness. I know the blessing and relief of home security and am grateful to have such impactful work.
Twenty years ago, I'd have said my favorite place is anywhere above treeline. Now that I'm in my 50's, my favorite place is anywhere I can see treeline . . . most often that place seems to be my front porch.
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DAWN HEIGELE
Bookkeeper
Affordable housing is a topic that I have been passionate about for years. When my husband and I opened Café Dawn in 2008, affordable housing was an issue that no one wanted to discuss. Over the years, we watched as homes that were affordable sold and turned into vacation rentals and 2nd houses. As small business owners, we did the best we could to pay a wage that kept up with the soaring rental prices, but the diminished inventory of affordable homes made it difficult to find employee housing.
After retiring Café Dawn, I wanted to work in a field that I found rewarding. Bookkeeping for Chaffee
Housing Authority allows me to have a direct impact on an issue that I have felt strongly about for years.
