VERMONT – Greensboro’s Mateo Kehler was named to the founding board of directors of Let’s Build Homes (LBH), the fledgling organization announced February 6.
LBH is a non-partisan, pro-housing coalition committed to creating abundant housing and addressing Vermont’s housing shortage. Through advocacy, community engagement and policy reform, the coalition seeks to create a future of housing for households of all backgrounds and income levels while preserving the state’s character and landscape. The Vermont Housing Finance Agency is serving as the organization’s fiscal agent.
“Mateo is CEO of Jasper Hill Farm. Lauded as a cheese visionary, with his brother, Mateo has successful[ly] transformed an old dairy farm in the Northeast Kingdom to one of the most successful cheese companies in the world,” LBH wrote in the announcement.
Kehler joins a dozen other state leaders from business, housing, education, energy and community organizations on the LBH board. The Board will drive LBH’s mission to advocate for strategic housing policy reforms in Vermont.
Miro Weinberger is the executive chair of Let’s Build Homes. A lifelong Vermonter, he has worked to build homes for 30 years as an affordable housing developer and as the mayor of Burlington from 2012 to 2024.
Other board members are, Elizabeth Bridgewater, executive director of the Windham and Windsor Housing Trust; Maura Collins, executive director of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency; Brian Dunkiel, general counsel for Beta Technologies; Neale Lunderville president and CEO of Vermont Gas Systems who previously served as general manager of the Burlington Electric Department, chief recovery officer for Tropical Storm Irene and secretary of administration and secretary of transportation; Casey McNeil, third-generation owner of McNeil & Reedy and president of the Downtown Rutland Partnership Board; Sue Minter, former executive director of Capstone Community Action who has served in the Vermont House of Representatives and as secretary of transportation; David Provost, executive vice president of finance and administration at Middlebury College who previously held the position of senior vice president of finance and advancement and senior vice president of finance and administration at Champlain College; Jordan Redell, associate vice president of external affairs at Scholarship America who served in the City of Burlington Mayor’s Office, including six years as chief of staff to Mayor Miro Weinberger; and Tino Rutanhira, executive director and cofounder of the Vermont Professionals of Color Network who previously worked at Dealer.com and Cox Automotive and sits on the board of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce and the board of the Janet S. Munt Family Room.
For more information or to join the coalition, visit letsbuildhomes.org.
