Iris Gilbert serves as the Secretary of the VHMA. Iris has been working in the affordable housing field for 19 years. She has worked as an Occupancy Specialist, a Property Manager, a Compliance Manager, a Deputy Director of Property Management and she currently works at the Vermont State Housing Authority as a Property and Compliance Manager. She holds the industry designations of Certified Occupancy Specialist, Tax Credit Specialist and USDA Rural Development S.T.A.R. Iris spends her free time volunteering for various community organizations, in addition to working toward fulfilling her goal of hiking the 48 New Hampshire 4,000 foot mountains with her husband and her beagle.