Community Home Trust homeowners and tenants are invited to vote for the Board of Directors.
Karen Stegman, a community representative board member who was recently appointed to fill an empty seat is up for a vote to affirm.
Two (2) community representative board members, Andrew Foster and Mark Moshier, and one (1) CHT resident board member, Brieann Mendez-Valdiviezo, are standing for election to a second term.
Election process:
Voting will be conducted online only from November 18, 2025 through November 30, 2025. All Community Home Trust homeowners and tenants are eligible to vote. If you are a CHT homeowner or tenant, you can vote here or click the button below.
Also, please use that link to vote to approve the minutes from last year’s annual meeting.
Karen Stegman:
A Chapel Hill native, Karen brings a deep commitment to affordable housing and a rich background in public service and nonprofit work. After spending time in various U.S. cities and abroad, Karen returned to her hometown 30 years ago and has since been a passionate advocate for equity, community development, and housing accessibility.
Karen has spent the last two decades working in the global health and development sector, and for the past eight years, she served on the Chapel Hill Town Council, where affordable housing was one of her top priorities. During her tenure, she played a vital role in several transformative initiatives, including passing two affordable housing bonds totaling $25 million, funding over 1,400 new affordable housing units and allocating town-owned land for future development, approving a 5-year strategic plan to support the creation of up to 900 new affordable homes and the preservation of up to 400 existing units, streamlining the development review process for projects with significant affordable housing, and cutting approval timelines from 12–18 months to less than six.
Karen has long recognized Community Home Trust as a key partner in achieving the Town’s affordable housing goals. “The land trust model is one of several critical approaches to creating and preserving permanently affordable housing,” she says. “Now that I am no longer on the Town Council, I am excited to join the CHT board at a time when the organization is already thriving. I want to help CHT continue to innovate on ways to further expand its impact and reach.”
Andrew Foster:
Andrew Foster is a clinical professor of law and director of Experiential Education and Clinical Programs at Duke University. He also serves as director of the Law School’s Community Enterprise Clinic and teaches non-clinical courses in community development law and other substantive areas.
Prior to joining the Duke Law faculty in 2002, Foster practiced with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, where he co-founded the firm’s community development law team. He now maintains a limited private practice that is concentrated in the areas of nonprofit, affordable housing, and community development law.
Before becoming a lawyer, Foster held leadership positions with several nonprofit community development organizations based in North Carolina. These include the Southern Rural Development Initiative, the North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center, the Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina, and the North Carolina Association of Community Development Corporations. Foster received his BA in political science, summa cum laude, from Rutgers University in 1991 and his JD in 2000 from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where he was a Chancellor’s Scholar and graduated Order of the Coif.
Before the start of his first term on our Board, Andrew shared why he was excited to join: “I’ve long been a supporter of CHT and am excited for the new opportunities for CHT to become even more impactful and to increase the velocity of its development work. I would be excited to serve on the Board so that I could be more consistently engaged in supporting CHT and its mission.”
Mark Moshier:
As a Founding Partner of Legacy Real Property Group, Mark brings over 25 years of experience in commercial real estate, highly focused on development and investment. Mark spent his early career in Metro D.C. specializing in repositioning value-add multi-family and commercial properties. Before leaving D.C. Mark was Vice President and partner running development and facilities management at Gates Hudson and Assoc., a private commercial real estate firm.
Mark’s education in design and construction along with a passion for investment financing (and a wife from NC) led to a relocation to Chapel Hill, NC in 2002. It was then Mark initially teamed up with his current business partner – Drew Howell. In evolving roles, Mark ran operations and development of larger commercial real estate firms until founding Legacy with Drew in 2010. Today, Mark continues as a managing partner of Legacy where the company focus is on development and investment opportunities throughout the Carolinas. Mark is a licensed NC real estate broker, member of various organizations including NAR, NCAR, TCAR, ULI and is active in many local Chapel Hill non-profits and his church.
Before the start of his first term on our Board, Mark shared why he was excited to join: “As a Real Estate Developer and member of the Chapel Hill community, the cost of housing is something I am intimately familiar with. I see and hear about the need for affordable housing every day and I believe it is something our community should – AND has to try and solve together. The brightest and best in our industry are working to educate communities and develop best practices for expanding the ability provide affordable housing…and the reality is that it is through organizations like Community Home Trust, that this goal can be best pursued and hopefully achieved. I would like to provide whatever experience, knowledge and energy I can to helping Community Home Trust make a real difference in providing affordable housing opportunities to our community.”
Brieann Mendez-Valdiviezo:
Brieann moved into The Landings at Winmore nearly 15 years ago. She had been forced to retire from her career teaching phlebotomy and EKG because of several injuries: a double knee replacement after she was injured working at a blood drive after 9/11 in New York City, a double hip replacement, and a broken neck among them. When she first visited The Landings, she was offered an upstairs apartment, but she wasn’t able to take it because of the stairs. So she put her name on the waitlist for a downstairs unit, and four months later, her home became available. And she’s never thought about moving since.
“I love The Landings,” says Brieann. “It’s perfect for me as a retired person. I find it quiet, I find it very peaceful for me, and I’ve enjoyed the friendship of not only the residents that live next to me in the townhomes, but also some of the homeowners that live in front of me. This apartment has a beautiful view of the forest behind me, and it’s just the perfect place for me to sit out in the afternoon.”
Brieann isn’t just a tenant at The Landings; she’s also a member of the Tenant Advocacy Committee, or TAC. She joined the TAC when it was first formed five years ago because she saw an opportunity to support her neighbors and share her free time to help make improvements in the community she loves so much. She says that at first, there was a lot of work to do as the liaison between tenants and the property management company, but her neighbors know her well enough to knock on her door or give her a call, and that made it possible for her to help pretty quickly. Now, she says the system works much more smoothly. She also appreciates the opportunity the TAC affords her to help plan events for her neighbors.
