Executive Director

Previously, Frankie helped found Silver Spring Community Vision, a comprehensive service center for the homeless. As Vice-President of Montgomery Housing Partnership (MHP), she developed a community-based approach to preserving existing housing in older communities and a new model for supporting and partnering with the low and moderate income families living in MHP housing. Frankie worked as Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the Housing Opportunities Commission in Montgomery County. In this role, she spearheaded a new approach to linking services with housing and sparked a new County wide approach to addressing the long term needs of homeless individuals and families. In the early years of her career, Frankie served as a legal service attorney with the National Housing Law Project.

In 2005, Frankie was honored as one of Montgomery County’s 25 Outstanding Women in Business. She received the Linowes Leadership Award and the Comcast Cool Woman Award in 2000.

Frankie is a co-founder of IMPACT Silver Spring and has been Executive Director since 1999. She currently sits on the Board of Trustees of Washington Adventist Hospital and the Board of Directors of Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association.