Desa Sealy

Founder at Gotham Urban Ventures

Speaker

Desa J. Sealy is founder and CEO of Gotham Urban Ventures, a Washington, DC–based boutique real estate development and consulting firm specializing in large-scale, high-impact projects in the civic arena and adaptive reuse of historic properties. With over 25 years of experience and more than $1.5 billion in completed work, she has led conversions of historic buildings to residential use, transformed manufacturing facilities into modern office space, and guided neighborhood revitalizations that reposition underutilized assets into vibrant, mixed-use communities. A former Obama appointee at the U.S. General Services Administration, Desa brings a track record of projects that redefine how cities live, work, and thrive.