Please join us in welcoming Jael Jones to the Neighborhood Allies Team!
Jael joins our team as the Senior Program Manager for Real Estate Services. In this role, Jael will help to build the Centralized Real Estate Accelerator (CREA) program infrastructure, build coalitions to advance change, develop a client pipeline and direct services toward clients, and be a thought leader in regional community development. She will play a key role in Neighborhood Allies’ effort to transform community development in the Pittsburgh region by advancing a systems-level change agenda while also providing ground-up support to communities and small developers.
Prior to joining Neighborhood Allies, Jael served as the Director of Market Research at the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (PRA), an affiliate of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development (ACCD). While managing the PRA real estate and GIS systems, Jael actively maintained relationships with key stakeholders and partners within the development industry. She was responsible for tracking and reporting on the available commercial real estate inventory and trends within the 10-county Southwestern Pennsylvania (SWPA) region. In 2016, Jael earned her real estate license through the Realtor’s Association of Metro Pittsburgh, and in 2017 expanded her skills to include ESRI ArcGIS mapping and data visualization.
In addition to her work at the ACCD, Jael has extensive experience in entrepreneurship, real estate redevelopment and reuse, brokerage operations, site selection consultation and community development services. Read more.