Executive Team
Larrie Del Martin, President/CEO
Larrie Del Martin joined the staff of Atlanta Habitat for Humanity as the Director of Operations in 1997. After a brief tenure in that position, she was named the President/Executive Director in 1998. Martin has been able to draw on her educational and professional strengths to effect change for the organization. Prior to joining Atlanta Habitat she had careers in teaching and residential renovation. She is an alumnus of Rhodes College and Georgia State University. Martin has received numerous honors recognizing her contributions to the community, most notably the 2004 John H. Allen Humanitarian Award from Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters and selection as a member of the YWCA’s “Academy of Women Achievers” in 2007.
Martin can articulate many accomplishments that she and the many talented staff and Board members have achieved during the organization’s 28 years. She has strenghthened the organization’s financial position and grown the annual budget from $4.5 million in 1998 to over $10.7 million. Martin has successfully completed two capital campaigns that raised $9.75 million - allowing the organization to build a substantial land bank for building future homes, to endow faith-based builds, and renovate its headquarters.
Martin has overseen the opening of an entrepreneurial retail outlet (ReStore) that has provided significant unrestricted funds to support Atlanta Habitat’s programs, serves our homeowners’ and the public’s home improvement needs, and showcases Atlanta Habitat’s programs to the public who shops there. She has led the development of an extensive homeowner education program to serve homeowners from move-in day through the life of their mortgage with us. Today, Atlanta Habitat is one of the top-producing Habitat affiliates of more than 1,700 affiliates in the country.
Jane Barwick, Senior Vice-President/In-House Counsel
Jane Barwick has served as Atlanta Habitat’s in-house legal counsel since July 2001. Ms. Barwick graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1976, and received her law degree from the University of Georgia in 1979. She clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, and practiced with two well-known Atlanta law firms prior to opening her own practice in 1995.
In the fall of 2000, Barwick began her course of study at Columbia Theological Seminary, and completed her Masters of Divinity Degree in 2005.
While attending Columbia, Barwick began working for Atlanta Habitat and became a full-time staff member in 2005.
While primarily responsible for the real estate closings of houses to Atlanta Habitat homeowners, Barwick is responsible for all in-house legal matters.
Barwick is also an Adjunct Professor at Emory University School of Law.
Melinda Kelleher, Vice President of Resource Development
Melinda Kelleher joined Atlanta Habitat for Humanity in February 2011 as the Vice President of Resource Development. She oversees all resource development initiatives, volunteer management, and the overall marketing and communications strategy for the organization.
Kelleher brings more than 17 continuous years of fundraising and non-profit management experience to Atlanta Habitat. She was most recently the Vice President of Development & Marketing for Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta. Kelleher has also served as a Director for an Atlanta-based consulting firm specializing in services for non-profit organizations, where she successfully managed capital campaigns in the $3M - $12M range and led other resource development initiatives for various clients.
Prior to her consulting work, Kelleher held a 12-year career with the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) of Greater Georgia. While with MDA, she led multiple areas of fundraising and outreach, including special events and individual and corporate giving for the southeast region. Her expertise in fundraising coupled with her exceptional relationship building and communications skills led her to exceed revenue goals by at least 50% each year.
A native to the Atlanta area, Kelleher began her career in the hospitality industry at the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau (ACVB), followed by director of sales positions at convention hotels in Bozeman and Helena, Montana. A resident of Decatur, Kelleher enjoys volunteering for several non-profit organizations in the Atlanta area, gardening, traveling, reading and spending time in the mountains. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and English from Brenau Women’s College in Gainesville, GA.
