Community

Amanda Peña

Senior Interior Design Manager

As The Community Builders’ Senior Interior Design Manager, Amanda Peña leads TCB’s design efforts across the company’s portfolio of more than 11,000 affordable apartment homes. She is an NCIDQ-certified Interior Designer, professional member of ASID, and LEED Accredited Professional with a specialty in Interior Design and Construction. She holds a degree in Interior Design from Harrington College of Design and received her B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago.

Ms. Peña’s responsibilities at TCB range from providing architectural finishes, FF&E selections and procurement to managing third-party ID firms. She established and chairs TCB’s Design Committee, which reviews every new property at schematic design and provides formal comments to each project architect. In the past five years, the Design Review process has provided design and construction guidance and standardization to more than 40 projects.

Before joining TCB, Ms. Peña worked in high-end residential design in Chicago for ten years. Prior to her design career, Ms. Peña served as Acquisitions Manager at the National Equity Fund, a low-income housing tax credit syndicator, placing more than $25 million of investment funds per year into the company’s affordable housing portfolio.