Humanities Foundation Welcomes New Board Member

Melissa Maddox-Evans

We are excited to welcome Melissa Maddox-Evans as a new member of Humanities Foundation’s Board of Directors. Melissa Maddox-Evans has over seventeen years of experience in the affordable housing industry and over thirty years in community development initiatives. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University, her law degree from the University of Georgia, and she is licensed to practice law in the state of South Carolina and the District of Columbia. She served as both Director of Housing and as General Counsel for The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston and as CEO of the Charleston County Housing & Redevelopment Authority. She is currently CEO of The Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis (HACA), Maryland. Ms. Maddox-Evans has formed several nonprofits, including The Charleston Redevelopment Corporation, an affiliate nonprofit which created The Palmetto Community Land Trust, and served as the first president & chair of its Board of Directors. She recently created the Annapolis Housing and Community Redevelopment Corporation to facilitate grant funding for resident programs and housing redevelopment in urban communities in Annapolis. She is a national speaker on affordable housing and nonprofit/corporate governance, she is an advocate for domestic violence victims, disability, education, and social justice issues, and she was a featured speaker for TEDxCharleston. She also helped form the Social Justice Racial Equity Collaborative—formed after the racial-hate-motivated Charleston shooting massacre of 2015—to promote racial equity and social justice policies and programs.

Ms. Maddox-Evans has received several awards from housing, government, and industry groups for her leadership and advocacy. Prior to working in the housing industry, she spent several years working in early intervention programs for developmentally delayed children and as a grassroots organizer for nondenominational churches throughout the Southeast. Ms. Maddox-Evans believes in being active in her community and serves on several boards and commissions, including the Anne Arundel County and Maryland Affordable Housing Coalitions as well as The Housing and Development Law Institute of Washington, D.C.