Monarch’s Staff

Monarch’s staff members are a key to our success. Click on any name to find our more about them. To read this on our Facebook page click here.

Richard W. Brown
Sharon Levy
Asish Patel
Taiisa Telesford Kelly
Peggy Verenna-Doebbeling
Eucabeth Williams

Richard W. Brown, has almost forty years experience in both housing development and community organizing. Since 1991 Mr. Brown has been the Chief Executive Officer of Monarch Housing Associates, the 1995 Governor’s Excellence in Housing Award winner in the organization category. He has been happily married to Jan, the woman he loves since 1975, and has two grown children – Jon and Mike - and a dog – Oscar. On July 19, 2010, he became the proud grandfather of a his first granddaughter – Lilah-Rae.

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Ending Homelessness

Taiisa Telesford Kelly joined Monarch Housing Associates in March of 2006.  She has experience in housing development working with federal, state and local funding sources to secure financing for special needs housing projects.  In October of 2007 Taiisa joined the Ending Homelessness Team where she works with local governments, non profits and community stakeholders to develop coordinated strategies to end homelessness.  Mrs. Kelly has extensive experience in working with community stakeholders on homeless planning activities.  As a member of the Ending Homelessness Team Mrs. Kelly guides communities through the process of developing 10 year plans to end homelessness and has completed 3 community plans in the past 2 years.  Working collaboratively with counties and service providers, Mrs. Kelly helps to bring best practices and program models such as housing first, rapid re-housing, and single point of entry systems to communities as they work to restructure systems and bring an end to homelessness.  Mrs. Kelly received her B.A. in psychology and anthropology from Rutgers University.

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Housing Production

Asish Patel, Monarch’s senior associate, works with the housing production team.  During the past 16 years Mr. Patel has worked on numerous acquisition, rehabilitation and new construction projects; consisting of condo units, single family homes, multi-family apartment buildings, scattered site projects, as well as commercial spaces.  Primary responsibilities include site selection, coordination with the development team, funding applications, municipal reviews, construction monitoring, and general project coordination.  Mr. Patel currently serves as Project Manager for all projects under development at Monarch Housing Associates.

Mr. Patel graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, with a History minor, and a Masters’ degree in Management. Mr. Patel attended Pratt Institute’s Community and Economic Development Internship Program. Mr. Patel was a housing scholar in 1994, and has continued to work for Monarch from that point forward.

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Sharon Levy has been involved in the affordable housing industry for almost 20 years in North Carolina, Michigan, and New Jersey working for state government, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit housing developers. Since joining Monarch in 2005, Sharon has helped clients develop multifamily rental housing for households with special needs, seniors, and families using various financing programs including federal low-income housing tax credits, NJHMFA’s Special Needs Housing Trust Fund, HUD 202, HOME, HUD McKinney, and the Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing Program.   Sharon received a BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1989 and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992.

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Peggy Verenna-Doebbeling joined Monarch Housing in March, 2001 and is a member of Monarch’s Housing Project Team developing affordable housing projects that consist of new construction and rehabilitation of existing sites.  Ms. Verenna-Doebbeling has significant experience and expertise working with federal, state and local funders; New Jersey Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, State of New Jersey, Department of Human Services and Federal Home Loan Bank of New York in developing affordable housing projects throughout the State of New Jersey.    She has successfully submitted applications with Monarch’s clients for senior and special-needs housing that provide a supportive environment for the elderly, homeless, disabled, handicapped, or other residents with special needs.  Ms. Verenna-Doebbeling works with Monarch’s clients from the conception of the project through all the phases until the tenants are selected and the project is in full operation.

Ms. Verenna-Doebbeling has nine years of experience in the affordable housing development and over ten years in the non-profit field.  Ms. Verenna-Doebbeling received a BA in History from Rutgers University and is currently a student at Rutgers completing a Paralegal Certification Program.

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Eucabeth Williams joined Monarch Housing Associates in 2001 and is currently a member of the Housing Production Team.  Ms. Williams has almost 10 years of experience in the housing and community development field working with social service nonprofit organizations.  In this capacity, she works with organizations to develop supportive housing projects from project concept through construction completion.  Ms. Williams’ previous work experience included direct care services for a nonprofit organization that served disabled individuals.  Ms. Williams received a BA in Psychology from Rutgers University.

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