Our Team Member

Tiana Patterson is the Vice President of Social Impact and Wealth Equity for Elevation Community Land Trust where she cultivates and oversees the creation and implementation of community engagement and partnership strategy before, during, and after project development.  She also ensures that all aspects of the home sales process – from initial community engagement through the homebuying through post-purchase support – align with the mission, values and goals of ECLT. She is also responsible for legal and compliance issues related to ECLT homeowners.

Previously, Tiana was the Public Partnerships and Legal Director for ECLT. She also served as State & Local policy director for Enterprise Community Partners in Denver, Colorado. Where she worked on affordable housing issues at Federal, State and Local levels. In that role, Tiana drafted and successfully advocated for the passage of an update to the Residential Tenants Health and Safety Act (HB19-1170), which was signed into law in May of 2019. This update was a comprehensive overhaul of housing quality standards for rental housing throughout Colorado. In 2019, Tiana was named as one of the Rising Stars in Housing by Denverite Magazine.

After graduating from law school, Tiana was selected for a post-graduate legal fellowship in Washington, D.C. where she worked on matters related to healthcare access and healthcare disparities on Capitol Hill. Tiana worked on Amicus Briefs submitted to the Supreme Court on reproductive justice and freedom. Tiana trained college-aged students on how to effectively advocate to elected officials and on how to engage in the political process.

Prior to her time in D.C., Tiana was a student of law at DePaul University in Chicago, IL where she assisted domestic violence survivors in obtaining orders of protection, researched and helped craft a textbook on tort law, and served as an ethics fellow during her undergraduate education at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.