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 Master’s 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 the Technical Assistance Program Director at the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. In this role, Fabiola manages the Center’s Accelerating Housing Production Grants. The goal of this program is to advance efforts by bringing resources and expertise to enable housing production at the local level.

Before ULI, as a design thinking strategist and community planner at Hola Vecino, Fabiola co-created a toolkit to catalyze placemaking projects. She championed a collaborative approach to align the shared vision of citizens, community organizations, developers, and the public sector. She represented Mexico at the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, where she showcased the neighborhood placemaking toolkit. Fabiola’s passion for placemaking can be traced back to her work at the intersection of art, community, and the built environment. As a visual artist, she focuses on immigration and environmental activism.

Fabiola is an AICP-certified planner. She holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Georgetown University, focusing on housing and transit-oriented development. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is bilingual and a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States.

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 to bring more public-sector and health perspectives to Product Councils.

Before joining ULI in 2024, she was an Urban Planner and Public Health Analyst for Harris County Public Health in Houston, Texas. She worked on several 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.

Elizabeth loves to be outside hiking, camping, or running in her free time. 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.