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Steve Kearns

Steve Kearns joined ONE|NB as the Director of Asset Management and Operations. He has over 30 years of experience in affordable housing development and management, most recently serving as the Director of Asset Management for Housing Opportunities Corporation – with its nearly 1000 housing units across Rhode Island. He previously worked for the Armory Revival Company and Slatersville River Properties in construction management and commercial property management. He serves on the finance committee of Community Care Alliance in Woonsocket and is currently on the Town of Lincoln Zoning Board of Appeals. He was also the former Chairman of the Blackstone River Watershed Council. Steve is a graduate of Holy Cross College.

Brenda McMahon

Brenda McMahon joined ONE|NB as the Senior Accountant in July 2018. Prior to this position, she worked at The College Crusade of Rhode Island as a Fiscal Officer. Brenda has over 15 years of experience in accounting for non-profit organizations. She holds a Master’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in Education from Providence College.

Allyson Plantz

Allyson Plantz joined ONE|NB as the Program Manager in April 2018 and was promoted to Chief of Staff in October 2018. In this role, she directly supports the Executive Director and performs a range of essential functions from program management to strategic planning and resource development. Prior to working at ONE|NB, Allyson was a Bilingual Youth Support Specialist at a youth center in Woonsocket, RI. Before that, she volunteered as a Health Education Coordinator with the Peace Corps in rural Guatemala (2015-2017). Allyson first became involved with ONE|NB upon returning from the Peace Corps in September 2017 through conducting door-to-door Spanish surveys in support of the work of the Olneyville Health Equity Zone project. She has a BA in Art & Biology from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and over four years of experience working both locally & internationally to improve public health and raise environmental standards. Allyson, although a native Texan, now happily resides with her partner and dog “Esperanza” in Providence.

Rosa Pastor

Rosa Pastor has managed our Homeownership and Financial Capability efforts for 4 years. Rosa began her career as a volunteer facilitator at Olneyville Housing Corporation. She served as an AmeriCorps member at West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation, and hired upon completion of her term required to work as the housing council. During this time she obtained certifications in Financial Capability Coaching, Foreclosure Intervention and Default Counseling, Homeownership Counseling & Pre and Post – Purchase Homeownership Education. Rosa has also worked at Children’s Friend and Family Services of Rhode Island.

Allegra Scharff

Allegra Scharff manages our Community Building Department, working as the facilitator for both the Olneyville Health Equity Zone and Olneyville Collaborative. She has worked with the Rhode Island Department of Corrections and the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence to intervene on health outcomes of incarcerated women and decrease recidivism upon re-entry. A native to Rhode Island, she has worked for multiple nonprofits throughout the State, serving most recently as the Education Director for Revive the Roots. Prior to this, she worked as a youth program facilitator, creating and running programs for the Pawtucket Prevention Coalition, Southside Community Land Trust, Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living and The Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art. She received her BA from Bates College in Environmental Studies and her Masters of Public Health from Brown University.

Aurélien Alphe

Aurélien Alphe joined ONE|NB as our Real Estate Development Project Manager on January 31^st, 2018. Most recently, he worked with the South Middlesex Opportunity Council in Framingham, MA as their Real Estate Development Project Manager and Project Administrator. Beyond his knowledge and expertise in real estate development, Aurélien has a keen understanding of comprehensive community development, with a background in both food access and transportation. He graduated from the Grenoble School of Planning with his Masters of Arts in Urban Planning in 2009. 

Tanya Perry

Tanya Perry has been a receptionist at ONE|NB for two years through Maturity Works, an Senior Community Service and Employment Program (SCSEP). Prior to joining ONE|NB, she worked in the hospitably industry for 20 years. She was born and raised in Providence, RI where she currently lives. She is a proud mother of 3, grandmother of 6, and great grandmother of 3.

Ashley Garnes

Ashley Garnes has been a receptionist at ONE|NB for almost a year through Maturity Works. Prior to coming to ONE|NB, he was a Client Aid for the Open Door Program. Ashley was born in Virginia and now lives in Pawtucket, RI.

Cynthia Langlykke

Cynthia is a former employee and long-term real estate development consultant for ONE|NB. She has been in the community development field for twenty years, previously working as a carpenter, architect, urban planner, non-profit executive, mission-oriented real estate developer and educator,

Most of her work has been dedicated to building stronger communities, working with residents in urban neighborhoods to improve the local quality of life by bolstering local economic opportunities and investing in the built environment. Her recent engagement in community development was done in the southside of Providence, where she managed over $20 million of housing and commercial development, much of it combining historic preservation with community-based real estate development. Her first professional acclaim was “the best lady carpenter in the Upper Valley;” the “Upper Valley” referring to the upper valley of the Connecticut River, where, in the late 1970s, there were all of two female carpenters. After the hammer and saw lost their fascination, she pursued her interest in architecture, working on numerous award-winning educational, recreational and cultural projects.

Cynthia received her Bachelors of Architecture from Cornell University and her MURP from University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.