Vaughn Perry serves as the Director of Equity and Sustainability for Douglass Community Land Trust (Douglass CLT), a nonprofit membership organization centered around racial and economic equity that was created to help prevent displacement of current and future residents, create community-held assets, and build assets for individuals and families, while ensuring decision-making resides within the community. He is focused on advancing Douglass CLT’s organizational sustainability and growth, fostering practices that are rooted in critical thinking and consciousness about race and class. Vaughn brings a wealth of organizational and project management skills, as well as deep knowledge of and experience with community land trusts, having served as a founding member of the Douglass CLT board, as well as its president. In his previous role as the Director of Equity for Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR), he led the efforts to establish the Douglass CLT, a key recommendation of the community driven, 11th Street Bridge Park Equitable Development Plan. In that role he also oversaw and implemented deliverables for the Plan. Most recently, Vaughn served as Director of Skyland Workforce Development Center, a program of BBAR. Previously, Vaughn worked for the Anacostia Watershed Society, where he led the National Capital Region Watershed Stewards Academy, providing community leaders with the resources to serve as a point in their community on stormwater issues.
