We are thrilled to announce that Linda Nguyen will be joining the CBN staff team as our next Executive Director on May 9!
Linda currently serves with Park Central Development as their Coordinator of Neighborhood Initiatives and Engagement. She’s been an active part of the CBN network, the Affordable Housing Trust Fund Coalition, and the Community Engagement Action Group for many years and is looking forward to engaging with our work from this new vantage point.
Our member organizations’ input served as the foundation for this transition process, and we are grateful for the time and wisdom they shared with us! Many, many thanks also go to the CBN Board of Directors and ED Transition Committee for leading the search and selection process over the past several months. Finally, thanks too to EMD Consulting for providing support on logistics related to the search.
Please help us give Linda a warm welcome! Here’s a little more about her:
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Linda came to St. Louis back in 2013 to get her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Washington University with a concentration in social and economic development and a specialization in nonprofit management. Linda is dedicated to the strengthening of organizations’ capacity and building strong neighborhoods through reinvestment in people and places.
In the last decade, she has created and managed anti-displacement programming that addresses the needs of hundreds of low- and moderate-income households, completed four community-wide needs assessments to identify current gaps of service and areas of opportunities, provided strategic planning and board development for two growing nonprofits, and organized numerous community events and workshops that provided community stakeholders with the tools to take action. Prior to working in the community development field in St. Louis, she has over ten years of experience in social welfare case management and counseling support in an urban setting working closely with seniors, people with disabilities, at-risk youth and families, and homeless populations.
Linda is passionate about working together to build the capacity of leaders and organizations to address the inequities in the St. Louis region. With over two decades of grassroot nonprofit experiences, she looks forward to creating meaningful relationships that connect the private and public sectors to all the great opportunities that make St. Louis a wonderful place to live, work, and play.
