Rosemarie Hepner, Vice President
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Rosemarie Hepner serves as Vice President of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. In this role, Rosie oversees the Center’s wide-ranging activities, including its technical assistance engagements, housing awards program, and annual housing conference.

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.

Deborah L. Myerson (AICP), Senior Research and Policy Fellow
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Deborah L. Myerson, AICP serves as the senior research and policy fellow with the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. Myerson is principal and founder of Myerson Consulting, LLC with expertise in housing policy and program development, land use, and urban planning. As senior fellow, Myerson guides and implements the Terwilliger Center’s research agenda on a wide range of residential land use and development issues.

An urban planner with twenty-five years of experience in the field, Myerson works widely with mission-motivated organizations, local governments, and private sector partners to create more livable, accessible, and equitable communities. She has also served as executive director, South Central Indiana Housing Opportunities; and adjunct professor with Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Myerson earned a Master of Regional Planning degree from Cornell University and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a certified as a Rental Housing Development Finance Professional by the National Development Council and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

William Zeh Herbig (AICP), Senior Director, Homeless to Housed
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William Zeh Herbig leads the Center’s Homeless to Housed Initiative. He also collaborates across ULI’s Headquarters Departments and its network of National and District Councils on projects exploring the intersections of health, social equity and creative placemaking in the built environment.

Prior to joining ULI in 2019, he co-led Kimley-Horn’s Atlanta-based Planning and Urban Design Studio. Other experiences include managing programs at the Markle Foundation, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the National Capital Planning Commission, and Atlanta’s Midtown Alliance. He also served as an elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner representing the Dupont Circle community in Washington, DC.

William holds a Masters degree in City and Regional Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a B.S. in Urban Studies from the Georgia State University Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, and studied architecture at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Will is a graduate of ULI Washington’s Regional Land Use Leadership Institute and was named a 2010 Next City Vanguard. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Fabiola Yurcisin, Director
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Fabiola Yurcisin is a Manager with the Center, working to launch the Center’s new Attainable Housing for All campaign. Fabiola’s passion for placemaking can be traced back to her work at the intersection of art, community, and the built environment. She spent significant time working on immigration and environmental activism in her work as a visual artist. As a place-based advocate and facilitator she supported design thinking approaches to create more human center places. It became clear to her that to impact equity and access to opportunity she needed more tools, so she decided to pursue a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from Georgetown University focusing on housing and transit-oriented development.

She is originally from México and a proud bilingual dual citizen. She also holds a BA in Business Administration from the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Elizabeth Van Horn, Senior Manager, Homeless to Housed
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Elizabeth Van Horn is a Senior Manager for the Center’s Homeless to Housed Initiative. She received a Randall Lewis Product Council Opportunity Scholarship to serve on the Public Private Partnership Product Council, Blue Flight from 2021 to 2024 in an effort to bring more public-sector and health perspectives to Product Councils.

Prior to joining ULI in 2024, she was an Urban Planner and Public Health Analyst for Harris County Public Health in Houston, Texas where she worked on a number of health equity and planning related projects, including a ULI Building Healthy Places grant-funded project. Elizabeth holds a dual Master’s in Urban and Environmental Planning and Sustainability Solutions from Arizona State University where both of her graduate theses focused on housing affordability and gentrification.

In her free time, Elizabeth loves to be outside hiking, camping, or running. She and her husband live in San Diego with their sweet dog, Simon.

Sarah Joyce, Associate
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Sarah Joyce is an Associate for the Center. Sarah supports the Terwilliger Center’s program of work, primarily the Housing Opportunity Conference and the Annual Housing Awards program. She graduated from William & Mary, where she studied Public Policy and Sociology. Sarah’s previous experience includes an internship with the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (APAH) and Affordable Homes and Communities (AHC), where she completed a research project focused on building inclusivity in mixed-income communities, as well as provided feedback to Arlington County on their comprehensive corridor plan for Langston Boulevard.