04/29/2026
BuildIT is proud to highlight one of our most remarkable champions, advocates, connectors, and construction industry utilization experts on the ‘eve’ of his recognition by the Non
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California.
Mick Penn serves as the Northern California Regional Director of Community Relations for Swinerton, where he drives workforce development, small, diverse, veteran, and LGBT business engagement, and strategic community partnerships across the region.
Mick works to ensure Swinerton’s construction projects create real pathways for local talent, emerging contractors, and community-based organizations. Mick serves on the boards of the Western Regional Minority Supplier Development Council, Cypress Mandela Training Center, Mission Hiring Hall, and Build It Green. He also contributes to the Associated General Contractors of California DEI Steering Committee and is a founder of BuildIT
To BuildIT he is tireless in his efforts to ensure that LGBT & Allied firms, professionals and interns have a seat at the table. Mick’s efforts lead to qualified LGBT & Allied contractors and material suppliers receiving meaningful contracts (in the millions of dollars in many cases), and building national role models for collaboration as in the 1939 Market Street Project in San Francisco that will provide affordable housing for LGBTQ Seniors.
We celebrate Mick and congratulate the NPH for presenting this award to Mick at NPH’s Annual Gala held Thursday, April 30, 2026.
About the NPH
NPH is the proud voice of affordable housing across the San Francisco Bay Area. Their members, partners, and supporters stand strong together to develop and pass critical policies to create change for our communities. Their events, programs, and trainings bring people together to grow our industry’s capacity, advance equity, foster connections and community, and ensure that we’re working collaboratively to develop, pass, and implement critical housing solutions for all of our community members, regardless of race, income, and personal background.
