Speakers

Ahkilah Johnson is an Associate of Cherokee Northeast, LLC, where she focuses on deal origination, analysis, due diligence and asset management. Cherokee Northeast, LLC, an affiliate of Cherokee Investment Partners, LLC, specializes in the acquisition, remediation and sustainable redevelopment of brownfields. As an Associate, Ms. Johnson evaluates the market risk, viability and time-line of projects. She maintains a strong commitment to furthering Cherokee’s philosophy to promote sustainable redevelopments that effectuate net positive social, economic and environmental results for the communities in which they are located.

Prior to joining Cherokee in 2004, Ms. Johnson worked as a Procurement Agent/Office Engineer in the Purchasing Department at the Clark Construction Group. She also spent two years as an Apprentice-Architect with the architecture firms of Schwartz and Associate Architects and Little and Associate Architects. As an Apprentice-Architect, she received her MS in Real Estate Development and Finance from Columbia University. Ms. Johnson received a BS in Architecture from the Howard University College of Engineering Architecture and Computer Sciences, where she was a Trustee Scholar and the 2001 AIA Henry Adams Scholar. Ms. Johnson lives in Manhattan, New York.