Real Estate Diversity Initiative (REDi)

REDi is a 15-session curriculum for women and professionals of color working in real estate industries. The program aims to advance participants’ careers and expand their professional networks.

The REDi program was an incredible professional development opportunity. It increased my proficiency, confidence, and passion for real estate development.

Kolu Wilson

Director, Minnesota DEED Office of Economic Equity and Opportunity and REDi Participant

The ULI MN Real Estate Diversity Initiative (REDi) Program helps participants learn more about what it takes to put together a successful development. Participants will receive a comprehensive curriculum and will gain experience working together on a real-world case study. Participants can further their careers by learning directly from real estate mentors about the challenges and opportunities in the local industry and apply lessons to a project as their group devises plans for development on a specific site. Each team will produce a development plan, pro-forma, and marketing plan. Chosen participants will engage in both large group and small group mentoring sessions. The ideal participant will be working in the field, have an undergraduate degree or equivalent experience and a strong entrepreneurial spirit.

This program gave me the opportunity to explore, learn new things and meet extraordinary people. We studied some areas I had feared in the past, but this program allowed us an insider’s view to the process while providing information right at our fingertips and the best people across industries to walk us through and teach us along the way. You never know what you are fully made of until you start doing and understanding those things you feared the most.

Summer Cline

Property and Leasing Manager, U of M Foundation Real Estate Advisors and REDi Participant

Eligibility and Cost

People of color and women are eligible to apply for the program.
100% attendance is required.
Registration is $300 payable upon acceptance to the program.

Participant Benefits

Free one-year membership to ULI Minnesota, with access to more than 500 members working in many different areas of the real estate industry.
Certificate of completion.
Professional Real Estate Development: The ULI Guide to the Business textbook, By Richard Peiser and David Hamilton ($99.95 value).
One-on-one mentoring and education worth more than $15,000.
A new network of allied professionals.