Staff

Andy Masters

Executive Director

Columbia Housing Center

Andy Masters joined the Columbia Housing Center (CHC) in 2021 as executive director. CHC has a mission to champion and support thriving racially-integrated communities in and around Columbia, Maryland. This happens through community engagement efforts and affirmative marketing of communities across the area.

Prior to the Columbia Housing Center, Andy was the Strategic Partnerships Manager at Enterprise Community Partners, leading the outreach and engagement efforts related to Opportunity360, a platform that brings together cross-sector data, community engagement, partnership and evaluation tools for communities across the country. Andy also led the launch and implementation of a bold cross-sector Youth Health and Wellness Strategy out of the Baltimore City Health Department. In his work at the Family League of Baltimore as the Director of School Age Initiatives, he oversaw the organization’s portfolio of investments and initiatives supporting children in kindergarten through eighth grade and their families. He began his career in Baltimore City Public Schools as a school counselor and was later asked to join the district administration team.

Andy has a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies and a master’s degree in counselor education from the Pennsylvania State University. He lives in the Columbia area and has two children.

Carletta Hickman

Landlord Liaison

Columbia Housing Center

Carletta Hickman joined the Columbia Housing Center (CHC) in March 2022 as a Landlord Liaison. Carletta has joined the mission of CHC to champion and support thriving racially integrated communities in and around Columbia, Maryland. As the very first Landlord Liaison, she will take on community engagement efforts and affirmative marketing of communities across the Columbia/Howard County area.

Prior to the Columbia Housing Center, Carletta’s career was focused on Healthcare IT Project Coordinating as a private contractor. She has taken on multilevel EMR implementations with healthcare facilities such as Mayo Rochester, Cleveland Clinic, GBMC, New York City Health & Hospitals and several smaller healthcare systems around the United States. Carletta’s role as a project coordinator, has led her to Columbia Housing Center to assist in the initial planning phases of marketing and continued branding for CHC’s mission. She’s not a stranger to racial equity and integration as she has experienced first-hand the benefits of multicultural integrated communities in her home state of Florida. Carletta paints the picture of growing up on a Navy base in Jacksonville, FL as young junior-high student; understanding the unique identifier of navy housing; living among a plethora of multicultural families.

As she begins her life as an adult, she went on to continue her living among integrated communities in states such as, Georgia, Michigan, North Dakota, Illinois, and now Maryland.

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