Co-founders

Barbara Heise

Co-Founder

Barbara Heise is a broker with RE/MAX Results who has been in the real estate industry since 1974. Barbara is a co-founder of WITH Action. In addition to representing buyers and sellers Barbara has expertise as a property developer, property manager and as an assistant to a mortgage banker.

Barbara also was co-owner of a real estate brokerage for 4 years. The majority of Barbara’s business has been concentrated on urban and inner suburban living and promoting the advantages of diversity in housing stock and cultures.Barbara has been involved in local politics throughout the years.

Rosalind Williams

CO Founder
CoFounder

Rosalind Williams , MUP, is an urban planner with 40 years of experience creating healthy,

sustainable, and equitable communities and the co-founder and board president of WITH. She is a

former Director of Planning and Development for the City of Ferguson, Missouri. She initiated

Missouri’s PACE legislation, created downtown form-based coding, and advocated for a Social

Compact Drilldown in North St. Louis County. As planning director in Kirkwood, MO., Ms.

Williams was responsible for the Meacham Park TIF Redevelopment Project, one of the first in

the state to use the commercial portion of the project as the economic engine to redevelop a

disinvested residential neighborhood. In Berkeley, Missouri she administered community

development programs, including Urban Homesteading and acquisition/rehab/resell of HUD

properties. She began her planning career in Ithaca, New York, where she helped create the

first small-city Neighborhood Housing Services organization in the country.