{"id":114,"date":"2021-11-17T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2021-11-17T16:34:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:34:02","slug":"business-observer-40-under-40-class-of-2021-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"TBBJ: READY TO GET UNCOMFORTABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The 37-year-old director of asset management for Beneficial Communities has been overwhelmed by recent racial injustices across the country \u2014 the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and more, and the global protests that followed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On this Wednesday afternoon in June in his office, Leonard doesn\u2019t feel like being his upbeat self. The pain in his voice is evident over the phone. He\u2019s looking for answers and how to make change.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leonard started his career in housing 13 years ago, buying, flipping and managing residential properties. He worked for the Tampa Housing Authority for almost eight years, first as a senior asset manager and then as director of asset management, managing a $20 million budget and staff of 19. He\u2019s since moved on to Beneficial Communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Has racial inequity seeped into your business transactions or meetings?<\/strong>\u00a0I can\u2019t put my finger on a particular incident, negotiation or arrangement where I felt like I was not getting a fair shake, discriminated against or not taken seriously. What I do experience on a regular basis, and especially in the sector I’m in, when I go to any kind of meeting … depending on the size of the meeting, if there are 100 people in the room, maybe one or two minorities are Black men or women in that room, so I feel isolated. I feel not naked, but I do feel like alright I gotta do what I can to fit in and show that I\u2019m capable of doing whatever it is I feel I can do. You\u2019re by yourself, and when you look across the room and you see another, there\u2019s an unwritten rule you just acknowledge \u2014 ‘I see you.’<\/p>\n

My wife has experienced those kinds of things. She\u2019s an attorney, so when she goes into a courtroom, she\u2019s not given the benefit of the doubt that she\u2019s the attorney. She\u2019s looked at as being a clerk or court reporter \u2014 a lower ranking person in the judicial system. So she gets that. She learned to adjust because of it, because it still stings when you go to school all these years and you walk into a courtroom to practice the law you studied and you\u2019re just automatically thought to be the help.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The 37-year-old director of asset management for Beneficial Communities has been overwhelmed by recent racial injustices across the country \u2014 the murders of George Floyd,<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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Leonard Burke Director of asset management, Beneficial Management\u00a0 Age\u00a038 Affordable housing is more than just a theory for Leonard Burke. Burke is the 38-year-old director<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The 37-year-old director of asset management for Beneficial Communities has been overwhelmed by recent racial injustices across the country \u2014 the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and more, and the global protests that followed.\u00a0 On this Wednesday afternoon in June in his office, Leonard doesn\u2019t feel like being his upbeat self. The pain in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstonesp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}