Wanda Stansbury is an attorney, business executive, and consultant with extensive experience in
corporate law, government, public policy, transportation infrastructure, and public-private
partnerships (P3s).
She is Principal of Stansbury Howard Consultants, LLC, a Maryland certified Minority Business
Enterprise (MBE), providing contract management and strategic advisory services on Maryland's
$10 billion Purple Line light rail P3 project under a subcontract with project management joint
venture company comprising AECOM, WSP, and RK&K. Previously, as Assistant Attorney
General with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, she served as lead counsel to the
Maryland Transit Administration's Office of Transit Development and Delivery, advising on the
Purple Line's complex P3, commercial, construction, and third-party agreements.
Her legal career includes serving as Deputy General Counsel for the District of Columbia
Department of Small and Local Business Development, Associate General Counsel at Fannie
Mae, and General Counsel and Vice President of Corporate Development at Washington Linkage
Group. She practiced corporate and real estate law with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae in
New York City; and Arent Fox; and Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) both in Washington,
D.C.. She also provides pro bono legal services through her solo firm Stansbury Howard Law,
LLC.
Before law school, she worked as a journalist with the Bureau of National Affairs and as a
legislative advocate for the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Director of Government Affairs for
the United Negro College Fund, where she spearheaded the drafting of legislation creating the
$1.1 billion HBCU Capital Improvement Bond Financing Program during the Clinton
Administration.
Ms. Stansbury is also co-owner of URBrands Global, LLC, doing business as Kiti Mezani World
Designs, a furniture design and manufacturing company.
She holds degrees from Columbia University Law School (J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar),
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism (M.S.), and Morris Brown College
(B.S.).