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FRI Staff

Jon Edmonds, President and CEO
Jonathon E. "Jon" Edmonds assumed leadership of FRI in 2007. Before that, he was the founder and Principal of Higher Level Development, LLC, and the President and CEO of the Foundation for Community Empowerment (FCE), also in Dallas. Preceding these, Mr. Edmonds was the president of the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership in Indianapolis, Ind.

A former Citibank commercial loan officer, Jon has more than twenty years experience in comprehensive community development. While president of INHP, he was responsible for the funding and capacity building for the Indianapolis Community Development Corporations, homeownership training and counseling programs, and the creation and administration of single and multi-family mortgage lending programs. His work was recognized by the President William Jefferson Clinton HUD Homeownership Partnership Award in 1995-96.

As President and CEO of FCE, Jon oversaw the operations and development of model approaches to community, economic, and housing development and neighborhood revitalization with other committed partners. Under his leadership, FCE worked to develop national demonstration initiatives in comprehensive community development, early childhood education, capacity building programs, church/community partnerships and neighborhood violence-free zones.

Jon has been married to Lois Edmonds for more than 30 years and has four wonderful children and five even more precious grandchildren.

Tabatha Smith, Office Manager
Tabatha came to FRI from the Foundation for Community Empowerment, where she was Assistant Director of Marketing and Operations. As FRI's office manager, she oversees the accounting functions as well as office operations. In 10 years with FCE and FRI she has been a strong and consistent voice for putting our community partners first.

Before Joining FCE, Tabatha worked as a Management Assistant and Food Inspector for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety Inspection Services and as an Assistant at the DFW Medical Center in the Medical Education and Executive Services departments. She also worked at the Arlington Life Shelter (formerly the Arlington Night Shelter) as a Peer Advisor of the Welfare to Work Program, helping families work toward self-sufficiency as well as working with other community service providers to ensure family sustainability.

Tabatha lives in Lancaster and has three daughters.

Anthony Anderson, Community Engagement Consultant
For nine years, Anthony has been in the south Dallas/Frazier neighborhood mentoring and coaching. Anthony has been a father figure to the youth in the Dallas area. Anthony served as Senior Pastor of Victory Life Ministry of Dallas, helping men and women get off the streets and turn their lives around. Anthony understands true discipleship and all which is needed for recovery after his own personal experiences with crime, drugs and jail. In the Stop Six community of Fort Worth, Texas, Anthony gave his life to Christ and has dedicated his life to helping others and rebuilding the community of South Dallas.

Pastor Anthony and his beautiful wife, Nina reside in Dallas with their children.

Garfield A. Bruff, Transit-Oriented Development Consultant
Current and prior engagements cover, Managing Principal of REG.TX a real estate development and investment group. REG.TX provides clients with high level focus on the identification and initiation of real estate acquisition, development, and construction opportunities. Current and past ventures cover raw dirt acquisition, joint ventures, debt finances and equity pursuit for residential and/or commercial development. To dateGarfield has either lead or played a lead role in over 100 million in real estate transactions. Prior to starting REG.TX, positions held were Director, real estate and investment group of Safeguard Self Storage; Real Estate Group, Starwood Hotel and Resorts World Wide; Assistant Vice President BLDRS Construction Corporation and Managing Director, NEHDCo.

Garfield holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Executive Level Education Program – Columbia University School of Business, and is a Masters of Science candidate at The New School's Milano Graduate Program.

Lois Edmonds, Community Engagement Consultant
Lois joined Frazier Revitalization Inc. in 2008 as Executive Assistant providing dual support to the chairman of the South Dallas Action Plan and to Frazier's president and CEO. Before that, Lois worked for The Dallas Morning News as Executive Assistant to the Vice President and Editor of the Editorial Page. She has 23 years experience with two major pharmaceutical companies in the Midwest, in sales administration and customer service.

Quincy Guinyard, Community Engagement Consultant
Quincy is 31 years old and was raised in Frazier from the time that he was 3 years old. His mother worked two jobs and his grandmother did her best to keep him out of trouble. But from the time he was 13, he was in and out of institutions for troubled youth. Having no parks to play in and no football fields to play on, he was drawn to the gang life.

Four months after turning 18, he got into a fight that ended up costing him seven years in prison. There, his life changed abruptly when he encountered a fellow gang member who was serving a life sentence. Quincy knew he didn't want to spend his life locked up. He forged a relationship with God and made up his mind help other troubled youth avoid the mistakes he had made.

Shortly after being released, Quincy was fortuitously introduced to Jon Edmonds, who hired him to work as a Community Liaison for FRI. Now, returning to Frazier as a mature and productive man, Quincy can have a positive impact on the community, serving as an icon of hope for troubled youth. In his quest to become an effective community builder, Quincy recently completed training in broad-based institutional community organizing offered by Dallas Area Interfaith.

Hank Lawson, Community Engagement Advisor
Henry T. "Hank" Lawson joined FRI in 2009. He is the retired executive director of South Fair Community Development Corporation, a neighborhood based community building organization in South Dallas. As the executive director, he worked to promote neighborhood revitalization through the development of affordable housing, economic development and providing community support services.

Hank has more than 35 years experience in community development and organizational planning. Since 1993 he has participated in the planning and development of over 1,250 units of housing and 75,000 SF of retail/commercial space with a development value of over $60 million.

Hank has a master's degree in City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellow from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and a Kellogg Foundation Fellow. Mr. Lawson is a graduate of the Bank of America Leadership Academy as well as a graduate of the Achieving Excellence Program from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Mr. Lawson is a former college All-American in track & field, also having coached and worked with world class track & field athletes.

He is raising a wonderful family with his wife Sharon in Dallas, Texas.

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Tom Westberry, Frazier Fine Homes
Tom Westberry has spent his career as a builder working in some of Texas' most prestigious neighborhoods: Trophy Club, Southlake, Eagle Mountain Lake. But he wanted to make a difference in building a community - a place with its own unique history and culture. When he met Jon Edmonds and heard Jon's vision for Frazier, he was intrigued.

They talked at length, and eventually Jon hired Tom to oversee construction of a model home on Silver Street

 

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