Sustainability Street: Project REAP Turns 25

Commercial Property Executive

Welcome back to Sustainability Street, CPE’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. For this episode, Executive Editor Therese Fitzgerald interviews Manikka Brown, executive director of Project REAP (Real Estate Associate Program).

This year, Project REAP has been working to diversify the CRE talent pipeline for 25 years. So to mark to the occasion, the organization conducted a quantitative and qualitive analysis of its work to date. Brown discusses the survey results, her own paths to CRE entrepreneurship and to REAP, and directions for the future.

Here’s a sample of the topics covered:

• Project REAP's mission (1:03)
• The pandemic and new opportunities (2:12)
• REAP's survey results (4:10)
• Maintaining the momentum for DEI (10:53)
• Brown's road to REAP (14:10)
• Invisible biases in CRE (17:48)
• Brown's call to action (20:05)