Rosemarie Hepner

Biography: Rosemarie Hepner serves as Vice President of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. Rosie is spearheading the Center’s new Attainable Housing for All campaign. She also manages the housing awards program, supports the Housing Opportunity Conference, and collaborates with ULI’s other departments and District Councils on projects. Before joining ULI in 2017, she worked for two international development nonprofits, most recently as the International Capital Markets Specialist at Habitat for Humanity International. In that role, Rosie supported the operations for the MicroBuild Fund (Habitat’s housing microfinance fund), and managed the State of Housing Microfinance survey reports. Rosie holds a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning, where her research focused on low-income housing practices and design. Her thesis examined housing reconstruction in informal settlements post-disaster. She also holds a B.A. from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.