Dawanna Williams has served as a director of ACRES Commercial Realty since June 2021. She is the founder of Dabar Development Partners, a real estate development and investment firm focused on conversion, renovation and new construction primarily in New York City, and has served as its Managing Principal since September 2003. She previously served as General Counsel of Victory Education Partners (2010-2013), as a commercial real estate senior associate at Sidley Austin LLP (1999-2003) and as an associate at Paul Hastings (1996-1999). Since 2022 she has been a director of Compass, Inc. (NYSE: COMP) and since 2023 a director of Ares Industrial Real Estate Income Trust. She brings more than 20 years of real estate industry and development experience to the Board.