About Us

RUDL is an Oregon Community Development Limited Liability Corporation. Its principal investors and founders are ethnic minority women who own 80% of the firm. An ethnic-minority male owns the remaining 20%.

Our initial focus is developing rural and urban communities throughout the U.S. that are economically and socially under-developed. The communities are too often forgotten and lack the necessary infrastructure, resources and amenities for them to thrive.

For many years, the RUDL team has helped just these types of markets to flourish through administrative improvements and physical development. These projects oftentimes then become hallmarks of their neighborhoods.

Linda Johnson is the lead real estate development consultant for client contracts, and is located in our West Coast office. She has held senior and executive level management positions in the public and private sector. Ms. Johnson has more than 30 years experience as an affordable housing developer and community development financial specialist with federal, state, municipal, and housing authority funds. Her skills have been utilized in Washington, Nevada, Oregon, Oklahoma, Kansas, California, Maryland and Washington D.C.

Zeenab Fowlk is the programmatic and organizational development lead for client contracts, and is located in our East Coast office. She has more than 15 years of experience with nonprofits in creating training curriculum for juvenile justice and youth leadership programs, along with developing youth and family organizational capacity. Ms. Fowlk is the former executive and deputy director with the Baltimore House of Mercy, D.C. Time Dollar Youth Court, Northern Nevada Gang Alternative Partnership, Greater Nevada Fair Housing Council and the Alice Hamilton Institute, which included staffing the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees and Center for Social Organization of Schools – Teach Baltimore.

Theodore Ward is RUDL’s shipping and inventory lead consultant. He has more than 20 years experience in forestry management, horticulture, plants and product shipping. He has training as a plumber, steel worker and pipe fitter garnered on construction sites in Reno, NV. Mr. Ward is familiar with various growing farm owners in Oregon, Nevada, California and Washington and can assist owners in developing a landscape maintenance plan to ensure the survival of greenery installed.

RUDL works with clients to plan for, create and manage development projects, helping them run as sound businesses. We strive to particularly empower disenfranchised minority-, women-owned and disadvantaged businesses.

Our clients understand that working with RUDL is a less risky way to develop new projects than solely depending on in-house staff. We are a competitive value for our services and deliver an even higher benefit to our clients.