Housing for everyone

Age: 32

Title: President

Organization: KMA Companies

Devin Rowland is the president for KMA Companies, a fast-growing and leading real estate development and property management company based in Illinois.

KMA Property Management Services is a licensed real estate brokerage that provides property management services to 27 real estate holdings and 1,000 apartments in Illinois and Indiana.

Rowland leads KMA Companies in analyzing and deal sourcing. He serves as an owner’s representative in securing public and private funding and maintaining compliance in tax credit, mixed use, affordable, and market rate properties. He has overseen more than $100 million in public and privately funded supportive, affordable, and veteran housing real estate developments in Illinois and Indiana. from the southern border.

Rowland is a 2022 recipient of the Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award from the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition in Washington, D.C.

Previously Rivas served as the alumni supports and external affairs manager at UIC College Prep where he worked hard to provide extracurricular activities such as Code Nation, which provided sophomores through seniors with coding education and internships. . He joined the staff at UICCP in 2014 as a Spanish instructor and later became an alumni counselor, supporting many of the same students he had taught.

Rivas earned a bachelor’s degree in government and Spanish from Claremont McKenna College and holds two master’s degrees, one in teaching from Dominican University and another in higher education administration from Northeastern Illinois University.

Age: 34

Title: Anchor and reporter

Organization: WLS-TV ABC

7 Chicago

Mark Rivera came back to work in his hometown when he joined the ABC 7 Eyewitness News team as a news anchor and reporter in December 2017.

He is a skilled anchor and a versatile reporter adept at covering everything from big breaking news to politics and feature stories.

Since joining eyewitness news, he has covered fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic in the

Chicago area and efforts to recover, helmed the anchor desk following civil unrest in Chicago after the death of George Floyd, and reported on the fight for racial and social justice in the city and state.

Rivera was awarded an Emmy for his work as an anchor during the high-speed chase and hours-long standoff between police and a suspect accused of killing a McHenry County sheriff’s deputy.

He and his wife Alissa are grateful to have welcomed a new baby boy this year.

This category recognizes affordable housing organizations that have demonstrated impactful use of the low-income housing tax credit.

Rowland is a graduate of Purdue University Krannert School of Business and holds a master’s degree in real estate from Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University.