Ms. Clarke is a Birmingham native with a passion for creating positive community impact. She attended Ramsey High School, and studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech. Currently, she volunteers with Operation HOPE, United Way, Neighborhood Housing Services of Birmingham, CreateBirmingham, and Urban Impact.

Ms. Clarke serves as General Manager of Southside Development Company following a successful career engaging the community through leadership roles at Regions Bank, IBERIABANK, and the Birmingham Mayor’s Office, where she served as Director of Economic Development. Many years prior to this, Clarke managed Resident Services for several large public housing  communities managed by H. J. Russell & Company’s Housing Division. While in resident services, Clarke most enjoyed spending time with community residents designing programs to be delivered at their respective sites, some of which were funded through competitive grant awards under the US Department of HUD’s Safe Neighborhoods and Drug Elimination programs.

BREC Development, LLC specializes in the renovation, acquisition and construction of multi-family communities. BREC has been involved in, and completed, a wide variety of conventional and affordable multi-family developments in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, Tennessee and Texas.