Casius Pealer, JD research focuses on affordable housing, sustainable building design and planning. Pealer was trained as an architect and a real estate attorney, with over 18 years of community development experience, including four years as legal counsel for public housing authorities across the country implementing mixed-finance redevelopment projects. He has also worked in the nonprofit sector as the first Director of Affordable Housing at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and in the public sector as Assistant General Counsel for Real Estate at the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA). Casius was 2011 Chair of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Housing Committee and is a current board member for Next City, He has been published in the ABA Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, the AIA Journal of Architecture, and Affordable Housing Finance Magazine. As Director of the MSRED program at Tulane, Casius has an important ongoing academic and career advising role.