Sergeant Gillian Alessio, Santa Fe Police Department

As the Training and Recruiting Sergeant for Santa Fe’s Police Department, Sergeant Alessio participates regularly in efforts to provide affordable housing in Santa Fe for public safety personnel. She was involved in the 2008 Housing Summit and works closely with local nonprofit housing providers and City staff to develop affordable housing policy.

Sergeant Alessio’s interest in architecture, building design and construction extends to her personal life as well. She and her husband, Ken Alessio, designed and built their home in Santa Fe County and he has assisted with building several homes in and around Santa Fe. Her stepbrother, John Brown, is a licensed contractor and currently works as a safety inspector with Bradbury Stamm.

Sergeant Alessio's career in law enforcement spans eleven years. For the past nine, she has worked for the City of Santa Fe’s Police Department, three of which as a sergeant. Previously, she worked as a special agent for the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Securities Division. 

Sergeant Alessio is a native of Santa Fe and attended St. John's College and the University of New Mexico.

Chris Calvert, City of Santa Fe Councilor

Councilor Chris Calvert represents District 1 on Santa Fe’s City Council, the district in which the subject site is located. He was instrumental in recognizing the potential of the site to be developed for affordable, green-built housing and encouraged City staff to organize the design competition.

Councilor Calvert was elected to the Governing Body in March 2006 and is serving his first four-year term. He currently serves on the Public Works, Planning and Land Use and Finance Committees and is the Chair of the Water Conservation Committee. In addition, he serves on two joint city-county bodies: Buckman Diversion Board and the Solid Waste Management Authority Board.

Councilor Calvert has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley; a Bachelor’s of Science in Conservation of Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley; and a Bachelor’s of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Trisha Miller, Deputy Director of the Green Communities Initiative, Enterprise Community Partners 

Ms. Miller manages the Green Communities national grant program, which provides over $1 million annually for planning and construction of green affordable housing. Her work focuses on leveraging private and public investment in green affordable housing development and sustainable building practices across the country. Shortly after hurricane Katrina, she helped develop an innovative green modular housing project on the Gulf Coast and continues to support green housing solutions for low-income families.

Previously, Ms. Miller directed the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights’ Community Development Initiative – a nationally renowned program aimed at rebuilding lives through dedicated legal support, housing partnerships and community planning. She launched this innovative project as a Skadden Fellow in 2004 to bring legal resources to non-profit housing and economic development organizations and thousands of individuals across the Southern United States.

Ms. Miller graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, with a degree in Environmental Policy. She received her Master’s in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her law degree from Stanford Law School. Ms. Miller is a member of the California bar and the American Planning Association.

Lillian Montoya-Rael, Financial Advisor/Financial Planner

Lillian Montoya-Rael is a Financial Advisor/Financial Planning Specialist with Smith Barney in Santa Fe. Previously, she was the Director of the Community Programs Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory where she led the strategic planning efforts, and the corresponding investment in regional education, economic development, and community giving. 

She was also the Executive Director of the Regional Development Corporation (RDC) where she was one of the first economic development leaders to espouse a “regional approach” to economic diversification and development. Her experience also includes 12 years of state government employment where she was the Deputy Director at the NM Commission on Higher Education, managing the operations of the agency and taking a leadership role in the development of student financial aid policy.

Ms. Montoya-Rael applies her community enterprise and economic development experience to stimulate wealth creation at the individual and company level. She utilizes her experience in investment advisory, financial planning, economic development, higher education, workforce development, community development, and people development. She has a unique ability to lead, strengthen, and build healthy organizations that thrive. 

A native New Mexican, Ms. Montoya-Rael has distinguished herself as an active participant in many community, business and educational organizations in the region. She is currently a board member of the City of Santa Fe’s Business and Quality of Life Committee, the United Way of Santa Fe County, New Mexico First, UNM Alumni Association, the Santa Fe Business Incubator, and the NM Business Roundtable for Educational Excellence. Ms. Montoya-Rael received a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communications from the University of New Mexico. 

Michael Pyatok, FAIA, Pyatok Associates

Michael Pyatok has 41 years of experience as a nationally recognized architect, advocate and professor, establishing Pyatok Architects in 1984. Mr. Pyatok has designed over 30,000 units of affordable housing for low-income families and been a leader in the development of participatory community design methods.

In addition to actively participating in his firm's urban design projects, Mr. Pyatok is a Professor of Architectural Design at the University of Washington and recently served for three years as the founding Director of Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family at Arizona State University in Phoenix. Mr. Pyatok has served the American Institute of Architects on its National Affordable Housing Task Group. The National Endowment for the Arts sponsored him to facilitate housing design workshops in many U.S. and awarded him a grant to write a book about how to design higher density affordable housing called "Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing."

In 2001 Harvard University appointed him as the Buchsbaum Visiting Professor of Affordable Housing. In 2002, Pyatok Architects was chosen as Architecture Firm of the Year by “Residential Architect Magazine”, and “Professional Builder Magazine” identified Pyatok as one of the 12 thought leaders in the field of housing development. In 2007, Mike was identified by “Builder Magazine” and the National Association of Home Builders as one of the 50 most influential people in the development industry.

Mr. Pyatok is currently a licensed architect in California, Washington, Oregon and Arizona. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and his Bachelor in Architecture from Pratt Institute, both with Honors.

Bill Roth, President, Clear Creek Management Corp.

Bill Roth first became a general contractor eleven years ago, winning Metropolitan Home’s "honorable mention" award in its "Home of the Year” contest for his first project. Since that time, he has primarily focused on small homes and infill projects, building small compounds in Santa Fe’s historic East Side and in the Westside-Guadalupe Historic District. Another of his most recent projects was a contemporary passive solar home that he built on a lot in Santa Fe’s Westside, re-using a site from which an old adobe home had been torn down. He has also remodeled homes on Santa Fe’s historic East Side, in the Westside-Guadalupe Historic District (winning a remodeling award in 2003), and in Las Campanas.

Mr. Roth is currently working on the Arroyo San Antonio project, a five-unit condominium project that incorporates contemporary design with green materials, appropriate solar orientation, and cost-effective building practices. Mr. Roth feels this project exemplifies his concept of the “right-sized” home, one that features private space yet is clustered on the site to preserve the surrounding open space, and to utilize resources most efficiently. The project is the first in Santa Fe to be certified under Build Green New Mexico’s certification program and recently won an award for Best Green Feature Award/Lot design, Preparation, and Development from Su Casa Magazine.

Mr. Roth is on the board of the Santa Fe Green Building Council and has become recently involved with Habitat for Humanity. Many clients, architects and contractors know him from his long running plastering business, Bill Roth Plastering Inc., which has been in business since 1988.