REINVESTMENT FUND - Key Persons
Ms. Kim is a Policy Analyst for Reinvestment Fund, where she conducts quantitative and qualitative research for topics related to housing, high-quality childcare, place-based public policy interventions, and community social wellbeing. She supports the team's research projects that help all levels of governments, philanthropies, community organizations, as well as Reinvestment Fund's lending department respond to community needs by using data-driven, place-based tools. Ms. Kim first joined Policy Solutions as an intern, contributing to the Early Childhood Education Analytics for Philadelphia and Atlanta as well as Limited Supermarket Access (LSA) analysis.
Previously, Ms. Kim's research experiences involved gentrification, food systems planning, rural development policies in China, and spatial data management. Ms. Kim has a Master of City Planning from the Weitzman School of Design at University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on community economic development, GIS, and digital geographies, and a Bachelor of Art in Geography and International Political Economy from University of Washington.
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- Member of the Sustainable Development Fund Board of Directors
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- Senior Director of Data & Analytics
As Senior Director of Data & Analytics, Alexandra (Ali) San Roman is responsible for leading Reinvestment Fund's lending data strategy. Ms. San Roman enables the organization to manage portfolio risk, sustain programmatic and financial compliance, report data to major funders and ratings agencies, and write data-rich communications. Her work leverages a decade of experience in economic, strategic, and management consulting, where her work supported the development of health centers, retail corridors, and affordable housing. Ms. San Roman is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design and a Certificate from the Wharton School of Business in Real Estate Development and Design.
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- Chief Impact, Development and Innovation Officer
- Chief of Strategic Initiatives
Amanda High is Reinvestment Fund's Chief of Strategic Initiatives, responsible for managing the interconnection of strategic resource development, communications, and program innovation. In this position, Ms. High is responsible for launching initiatives achieved by implementing new products, programs and partnerships. She joined Reinvestment Fund in 2014, bringing over 20 years of experience leading high impact initiatives for national and international non-profit and development organizations. Prior to Reinvestment Fund, Ms. High served as the Head of Resource Mobilization at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an organization working across the African continent to help millions of small-scale farmers and their families lift themselves out of poverty and hunger. Her career also includes service with the U.S. Department of State, the American Red Cross in Asia and Africa, and the National Philanthropic Trust. Ms. High completed master's degree coursework in Economics and International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University.
Andrew Crerand is a Systems Administrator at Reinvestment Fund. He is responsible for managing and monitoring the entire IT infrastructure for Reinvestment Fund, ensuring that it is reliable, secure, and up-to-date, while enabling the company to operate without technology being a limiting factor. Mr. Crerand has been with Reinvestment Fund for 7 years, starting as an IT intern in 2014. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from Temple University's Fox School of Business.
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- Senior Program Manager for the Healthy Food Financing Initiative
- Senior Program Manager, HFFI
Anne Misak is Senior Program Manager for the Healthy Food Financing Initiative at Reinvestment Fund, a national initiative to improve access to healthy food in underserved rural and urban areas, to create and preserve quality jobs, and to revitalize low-income communities. Previous positions include the owner and Principal at Growing Impact Solutions where she wrote federal grants for food systems and economic development clients, the Healthy Food Program Manager/Loan Officer for the Colorado Enterprise Fund, and a member and co-chair of the Denver Sustainable Food Policy Council. Ms. Misak has a Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Oberlin College.
As a Portfolio Manager, Austin Vasko is responsible for lending relationships within the Clean Energy, Early Childhood Education, and Food Access segments of Reinvestment Fund's portfolio. Prior to the Reinvestment Fund, Mr. Vasko worked at Aeris Insight where his primary responsibilities included analyzing CDFI financial and social impact performance data, as well as managing a database of over 150 reporting CDFIs. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Finance from La Salle University, and recently finished his Master's Degree in Community Development Policy and Practice at the University of New Hampshire.
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- Senior Director, Health Services
Bridget Wiedeman leads Reinvestment Fund's health financing, working to increase access to quality comprehensive medical care and to reduce health disparities nationwide. She leads new business development for and underwrites Reinvestment Fund financing opportunities in the health sector. The health portfolio she has developed includes federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), behavioral/mental health care, urgent care centers and other models of health care delivery. Ms. Wiedeman joined Reinvestment Fund in 2001 and has demonstrated expertise in financial modeling and loan structuring to meet the financing needs of providers of critical community services.
Prior to Reinvestment Fund, she worked for Opportunity Finance Network as an associate of financial services, providing loans and technical assistance to CDFIs.
Ms. Wiedeman graduated with a Master of Public Affairs and Urban & Regional Planning from Princeton University and holds undergraduate degrees in finance and economics from Boston College. She is an elected school board member in her community.
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- Managing Director
- Managing Director for Portfolio Management
Caroline Rosch Hoover is the Managing Director for Portfolio Management, overseeing portfolio credit risk, repayment and operations. She is responsible for preventing loss, resolving non-performing debt and administering internal controls across the loan portfolios. Ms. Rosch Hoover oversees portfolio analysis and reporting for regulatory agents, accreditation, capital raising and investor communications. Prior to Reinvestment Fund, Ms. Rosch Hoover held institutional real estate advisory roles at Property and Portfolio Research, Deutsche Bank and Blackrock, Inc. She performed asset acquisitions, real estate valuation, and portfolio consulting for global investment clients. Ms. Rosch Hoover holds a bachelor's degree from Colby College and a master's degree in Public Administration from Rutgers University.
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- Managing Director of Information Technology
- Managing Director, IT
As Managing Director of Information Technology, Charlie Lichtenwalner oversees all IT functions for the company and is responsible for Management, Strategy, and Implementation of IT initiatives while supporting the company's IT infrastructure. Prior to joining Reinvestment Fund, Mr. Lichtenwalner was a Director of IT at Temptations with 20 years of experience in IT leadership for a number of Fortune 500 organizations such as CNN/AOL, Coca-Cola and SAP. Charlie holds a bachelor's degree in Communications from The College of Wooster.
As the Chief Operating Officer, Cheila Fernandez provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure that priorities and allocation of resources align with the strategy and mission of Reinvestment Fund. Ms. Fernandez is also responsible for leading the development, implementation, and monitoring of enterprise risk and control management processes and systems to address current and emerging risks to the organization. Ms. Fernandez joins Reinvestment Fund after 14 years of experience as a risk management consultant at Deloitte & Touche, where she led complex strategic, regulatory and operational changes at large domestic and foreign banking organizations. She began her career during the 2004 implementation of Sarbanes Oxley, wherein she specialized in financial reporting and operational risks and controls, including audits of supporting information systems. In 2010, she became Chief of Staff within the newly-formed Risk Advisory space where she led the creation and management of the U.S., and later Latin American, growth strategy. During the same timeframe she transitioned her risk specialty into the enterprise risk and compliance management space, where she led reviews, remediations and implementations of enterprise frameworks based on the Dodd-Frank Act requirements. Ms. Fernandez is active in diversity and inclusion efforts, including as founding board member and first vice president of the Association of Latin Professionals in Accounting and Finance (ALPFA) in Philadelphia, and member of the Women in America mentoring program.
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager, Operations
Christina Barrett is a Project Manager in the Operations Department of Reinvestment Fund, where she works on developing metrics, dashboards, and reports to track a myriad of projects. Ms. Barrett is motivated by the idea that good data, and data-based decision making, can help mission-oriented organizations and people improve their efforts to tackle societies most pressing challenges. Prior to Reinvestment Fund, she was the Director of Project Controls at SHINE Technologies, LLC, a start-up company working to bring a new facility online to produce nuclear medical isotopes. In that role, she started and ran the Project Controls department, a centralized hub for project scheduling, risk management, and project reporting. She also founded and chaired the diversity, equity, and inclusion function. Ms. Barrett holds a B.A. in Biology from Reed College and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
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- Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
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- Managing Director, Lending and Investments / As
's Managing Director, Lending and Investments, Ms. Szczepanski has managing responsibilities for budgeting, staffing, and business development in support of Reinvestment Fund's Southeast regional strategy. She also serves as Reinvestment Fund's manager for our structured financing programs, responsible for deal structuring, relationship management, deal closing and post-closing asset management for the NMTC portfolio and CDFI Bond Guarantee program capital. With Reinvestment Fund since 2008, Ms. Szczepanski was previously responsible for implementing and managing Reinvestment Fund's healthy food financing programs. Prior to joining Reinvestment Fund, Ms. Szczepanski was an Active Equity Research Associate at TIAA-CREF in New York, where she was lead financial analyst of the Global Paper and Forest Products sector and responsible for developing and presenting ideas based on proprietary models and research. Ms. Szczepanski is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has a master's degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Construction Science and Management from Clemson University. She has also been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's Master of City Planning program.
Colin Weidig conducts evaluations, strategic planning, and quantitative analyses for philanthropic, government, and private clients. Employing both quantitative (including spatial, statistical, and analytics-based) and qualitative (including interviews and focus groups) analyses, Mr. Weidig uses research to help clients better understand their markets, programs, and policy advocacy. He is currently working on researching the impact of reverse mortgages on the Philadelphia area, analyzing the number and geography of evictions in Philadelphia, and a Market Value Analysis of Jacksonville, Florida. His previous work included evaluations of a vacant property management strategy, a weatherization assistance program, and Philadelphia's Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program; as well as Market Value Analyses for eight cities or counties around the country. He is the co-author of The City of Philadelphia's Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program: Addressing the Rising Tide of Foreclosure, What if Pennsylvania Had Not Had HEMAP?, and Strategic Property Code Enforcement and its Impacts on Surrounding Markets: An Analysis of Philadelphia's Implementation of Pennsylvania's Neighborhood Blight Revitalization and Reclamation Act, among others.
Prior to joining Reinvestment Fund, Mr. Weidig was a staff attorney at Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent, which included representing home owners participating in the Diversion Program.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate, Investor Relations and Development
Courtney Stewart currently serves as the Senior Associate on the Communications & Investor Development team. In this role, she supports fundraising communications and administration and investor relations. Most recently, Ms. Stewart worked as a Development Manager for Philadelphia Youth Basketball where she conducted grant and donor prospect research and assisted with special events. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Ursinus College and a M.A. in American Studies from Stockton University.
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- Secretary Homes for America
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Dawn Matthews-Martin joined Reinvestment Fund in October 1998. In her present position, she manages the daily operations of 20,702 square feet of office space in dual roles as office/facilities manager. Her prior position was as support staff for the Lending Department's Community Resources Group, Small Business, the Sustainable Development Fund, and Nonprofit Energy Savings Investment Program (NESIP). Before Reinvestment Fund, she was the Director of Communications/Office Manager for the trade organization, Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations (PACDC). Ms. Matthews-Martin has over 22 years of administration experience and a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a dual major concentration in Organizational Leadership and Human Resources from Philadelphia University.
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- Member of the Sustainable Development Fund Board of Directors
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- Associate
- Systems Support Associate
Don Koestler currently serves as Systems Support Associate at Reinvestment Fund, where he is responsible for first response on the helpdesk database, assisting with Reinvestment Fund's infrastructure, system monitoring, and helping end users with equipment set up and troubleshooting. Additionally, he works on projects across a variety of departments to help improve business processes. Previously, Mr. Koestler served as the IT&S intern at Reinvestment Fund during college from 2018 through 2019.
Prior to re-joining the Reinvestment Fund full time, he worked in the mortgage field services industry as a project manager. He worked with HUD Conveyance condition process and assisted with better system reporting and implementation. He received his bachelor's degree in information sciences and technology from The Pennsylvania State University in 2018.
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- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
Donald Hinkle-Brown, President and CEO, leads a staff of 80 highly skilled financial experts, research analysts, and other professionals at Reinvestment Fund, a catalyst for change in low-income communities. Reinvestment Fund integrates data, policy and strategic investments to improve the quality of life in low-income towns and cities.
Mr. Hinkle-Brown is widely recognized as an expert in mission investing and capacity building through his work developing new programmatic initiatives, raising capital and creating new products that improve opportunity, equity and health for underserved people and places. Under his leadership, Reinvestment Fund launched ReFresh, the nation's first practitioner network of community lenders committed to improving access to healthy food for all Americans. He has also been instrumental in shaping strategies that leverage efforts at the intersection of health and community development to build thriving communities, including Reinvestment Fund's pioneering multi-sector initiative in partnership with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Invest Health.
Mr. Hinkle-Brown provides his expertise to many community development loan funds, community organizations, and students, demonstrating a strong personal commitment to building the capacity of peer organizations, community partners, and the next generation of community development professionals. He currently serves as the Chair of the Community Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Board. Closer to home, he also serves as board member to Reinvestment Fund affiliate PolicyMap.
Mr. Hinkle-Brown has served as adjunct faculty at Temple University's Geography and Urban Studies program and the University of Pennsylvania's City Planning department. He holds an M.B.A. from the Fox School at Temple University in Real Estate and Urban Planning as well as a B.A. in Economics.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Finance Chair Alliant Capital
Dushawn Roberts is the Reinvestment Fund's Human Resources Manager. He supports management and staff using his broad experience to include Associate Relations and Support, Compliance, Recruitment, Benefits Administration and Worker's Compensation. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, he moved to Pennsylvania where he graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Communications.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Governance Committee
- FS Investments
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- Senior Director
- Senior Director and Philadelphia Market Leader, Lending & Investments
Elizabeth Frantz currently serves as Senior Director and Philadelphia Market Leader on Reinvestment Fund's Lending and Investment team. She is responsible for loan originations for affordable housing and community-serving real estate projects, including relationship building, loan structuring, and credit analysis. She works closely with borrowers of different capacities to develop flexible financing solutions for their projects. Her expertise includes tax credit financing programs such as New Markets Tax Credits, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, and other housing and economic development programs.
As Philadelphia Market Leader and as a resident of Philadelphia, she has a specific focus in building relationships and serving borrowers in Philadelphia. Ms. Frantz has been with Reinvestment Fund since 2012, previously serving as an intern, Credit Analyst and Director on the Lending and Investments team. Prior to joining Reinvestment Fund, she worked in nonprofit legal services in Chicago, IL.
She has a master's degree in city and regional planning from University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in history from Northwestern University. She has been an adjunct lecturer in the University of Pennsylvania's city planning graduate program.
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- Policy Director
- Policy Director for Reinvestment Fund 's Policy Solutions
Emily Dowdall is Policy Director for Reinvestment Fund's Policy Solutions group. Ms. Dowdall helps civic leaders and government officials use data to make programming and investment decisions that support vibrant and equitable communities. She has conducted research on housing stability and neighborhood change in several cities, including Philadelphia, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, and Richmond, VA. Ms. Dowdall also has co-authored recent briefs on fair housing and blight remediation. Prior to Reinvestment Fund, she researched critical issues facing Philadelphia and other cities for the Pew Charitable Trusts, producing major reports on gentrification and the role of public libraries in big cities, among other topics. She has a B.A. in Metropolitan Studies from New York University and Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also a lecturer in housing policy and urban redevelopment.
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- Program Operations Manager for Capacity Building & Capital Access Programs
Halima Miha serves as Program Operations Manager for Capacity Building & Capital Access Programs. In her role, she supports the operations, grantee onboarding process, and grantee portfolio management. She has more than 20 years of experience working for nonprofit organizations. She is passionate about data, outcome tracking, workflow optimization, and bringing structure and organization to the nonprofit world. Ms. Miha holds an M.A. in History of Philosophy & B.A. from Baku State University and is currently seeking M.S. in Analytics at Georgia Tech.
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- President of Policy Solutions
Ira Goldstein, Ph.D., is President of Policy Solutions at Reinvestment Fund, a results-oriented, socially responsible community investment group. Dr. Goldstein has conducted spatial and statistical analyses in communities across the US. Those studies are used by government and philanthropy to craft policy and allocate public and philanthropic resources. He also has conducted studies of mortgage foreclosures and abusive lending practices. His work supported government-initiated civil rights and consumer protection cases. Dr. Goldstein created Reinvestment Fund's proprietary Market Value Analysis (MVA), which is used in communities across the US. He also led the creation of Reinvestment Fund's childcare access gap analysis.
For over 30 years, Dr. Goldstein has been a lecturer for University of Pennsylvania's (Penn) Urban Studies program. He instructs in research methods, statistics, and housing policy. He is a fellow with the Penn's Institute for Urban Research. Before coming to Reinvestment Fund, Dr. Goldstein served as Mid-Atlantic Director of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at HUD.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Governance Committee
Jacob Rosch conducts quantitative and qualitative research at Reinvestment Fund. His most recent projects have investigated the supply of uncertified child care in the Philadelphia area, the impact of scattered site housing projects, and the role of "middle market" neighborhoods in legacy cities. At Reinvestment Fund, Mr. Rosch leads projects to help philanthropic, government, and private investors design strategies to support the expansion of high quality childcare, build healthy and thriving communities, and improve the lives of residents and families in disadvantaged communities.
Prior to joining Policy Solutions, Mr. Rosch spent six years as a consultant working with clients in the K-12 and higher education sectors on a wide range of topics including school finance, teacher quality, accountability, online education, and university budgeting. His work has been published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the Chicago Policy Review.
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- Director of Program Initiatives
Jennifer Fassbender leads the national Invest Health and regional Building Healthier, More Equitable Communities in New Jersey program initiatives that support multi-sector teams in small to midsized cities working to improve the social determinants of health so all people can thrive. With over 20 years of collective leadership experience in healthcare, research, and non-profit sectors, she has dedicated her career to improving the health and wellbeing of people and communities.
Previously, she worked as a leader for the American Diabetes Association as a subject matter expert, building strategic partnerships; was the Program Director for The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Healthy Weight Program; and was a Senior Research Project Manager for a health disparities research group at the University of Pennsylvania. Her early training as a certified clinical exercise physiologist began her work in healthcare as a clinician in acute and outpatient cardiology and pulmonology rehabilitation.
Currently, Ms. Fassbender serves on the Board of Directors for the Council on Black Health, represents Reinvestment Fund on the National Academies Roundtable on Obesity Solutions and is the 2021 Chair for the Innovation Collaborative on the Integration of Clinical and Social Systems. She has co-authored numerous scientific publications and regularly presents at national conferences. She studied at the Pennsylvania State University and did her graduate work in Exercise Physiology at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health.
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- Director, Fundraising and Development
Jeremy's leadership spans over 20 years in health, philanthropy innovation, and political action. Prior to his role as Director, Fundraising and Development at the Reinvestment Fund he played several leadership roles in healthcare focused on community-driven innovation, neighborhood investment, and philanthropy for the largest health system in Michigan. This work was recognized by the prestigious American Hospital Association Foster G McGaw Prize for outstanding community health efforts.
Jeremy is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported Culture of Health Leader. He is the architect for the first Pay for Success project in Michigan and sits on the Michigan Statewide Community Advisory Forum for Fifth Third Bank. He co-founded Equity PAC; a local, equity-focused political action committee and he is the recipient of the 2016 LINC UP Visionary Community Spirit Award and the 2018 Center for Community Leadership Systems Thinking Award from the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce. He has been featured as a speaker at notable events such as SXSW and the Council on Foundations National Conference.
Jeremy is a graduate from Michigan State University where he received a B.A. in Criminal Justice and a B.S. in Psychology. He later went on to receive his M.P.A. with a focus on nonprofit leadership from Western Michigan University and corporate finance executive education from NYU.
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- Fellow
- Our Founding Director
Our founding director, Jeremy Nowak led the organization at a time when the idea of a financial institution dedicated to providing financing in support of wealth creation was new. The idea of investments that provided both financial and social returns was just beginning to take shape. In many ways, Reinvestment Fund was a grand experiment.
Jessica Guarneros currently serves on the Policy Solutions team as a Senior Policy Analyst. In this role, she is responsible for leading spatial, statistical, and qualitative data analyses and increasing the presence and profile of the Policy Solutions team in the Southeast region. She earned her bachelor's in International Affairs from Georgia Tech and Masters in Public Policy from Georgia State University.
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- Loan Servicing Manager, Commercial Loan Servicing
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- Managing Director of Credit
Kareem Thomas currently serves as the Managing Director of Credit for the Reinvestment Fund. As Reinvestment Fund's Credit Officer, he is directly responsible for the lending practices, credit culture, credit risk and credit approval functions across the Reinvestment Fund footprint. Mr. Thomas also has direct responsibility for Lending Portfolio Management, where he and his team of dedicated colleagues manage a lending portfolio of over $600 million in on-balance sheet and off-balance sheet loans. Prior to Reinvestment Fund, he served as Chief Financial Officer for a nationally recognized for-profit literacy solutions company, and led Small Business Banking, Commercial Lending, Portfolio Management, and Credit Underwriting regions across PA, NJ, and DE for Wells Fargo, Citizens Bank, and Citi. Passionate about civic engagement, he serves on the Board of the Urban Affairs Coalition, Self, Inc, Influencing Action Movement, and is a past board member of OIC, American Red Cross, People's Emergency Center, and the Mastery Charter School Foundation.
In 2022, Kareem Thomas was appointed by the Mayor of Philadelphia to the Commission on Human Relations and Fair Housing-the City's Civil Rights and Social Justice Arm.
Karen Bustard is a Program Manager, working within the Early Childhood Education team in the Programs department. She specializes in guiding grantees and borrowers through program activity and assisting with the design, implementation, evaluation, and refinement of operating programs. She offers project oversight for organizations seeking grants or loans through a variety of programs, including Fund for Quality, the Philadelphia ECE Loan Fund, the Philadelphia and NJ Child Nutrition Funds, Philadelphia Emergency Fund for Stabilization of Early Childhood Education, and others. Ms. Bustard holds a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from the Fox School at Temple University.
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- American Enterprise Institute
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman NYU Wagner and Furman Center
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- Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Keith Steelman joined Reinvestment Fund in 2019 and currently serves as Financial Planning & Analysis Manager. In that role, Mr. Steelman is responsible for the annual budget process, monthly forecasting, and financial modeling. Prior to Reinvestment Fund, Mr. Steelman worked in various finance and accounting roles, including investor relations, mergers & acquisitions, audit, and advisory services at PwC and Colfax Corporation. He holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Pittsburgh and is a licensed CPA in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
's Impact Analyst, Kevin Reeves assesses the outcomes and impacts of Reinvestment Fund's loans, grants, and New Markets Tax Credits investments. Additionally, he completed the 2018 update to Reinvestment Fund's Limited Supermarket Access (LSA) Analysis and a case study evaluation of Colorado Enterprise Fund's Fresh Food Lending program. Mr. Reeves is the author or co-author of Assessing Place-Based Access to Healthy Food: The Limited Supermarket Access (LSA) Analysis, Linking the Network: Colorado Enterprise Fund's Partnerships to Improve Colorado's Food System through Healthy Food Financing to Small Businesses, and Growing a Healthy Food Financing Program: ReFresh and Colorado Enterprise Fund.
Previously he supported Reinvestment Fund as a project consultant, writing regional retail grocery market structure and food access analyses for the JP Morgan Chase-supported ReFresh Initiative, compiling community demographic and economic profiles for the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, cleaning and processing data for the 2016 Selma Market Value Analysis (MVA) and the 2015 New Orleans MVA, and designing the Strategic Acquisition Plan report for the Philadelphia Neighborhood Gardens Trust.
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- Senior Director, Southeast Senior Director, RFIA / As
's Senior Director, Southeast, Khaliff Davis leads business development, credit analysis, and overall origination of transactions in support of Reinvestment Fund's Southeast regional strategy. He also takes an active role in new product development. Prior to this role, Mr. Davis served as Reinvestment Fund's Director for its K-12 Education portfolio. Prior to joining Reinvestment Fund, he was an Associate at Capital Impact Partners in Virginia, where he was responsible for credit analysis for high-mission private debt transactions. Mr. Davis holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in Economics and a master's degree in City & Regional Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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- Commercial Loan Servicing Specialist
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- Senior Director for Equitable Foods Systems Lending
- Senior Director, Equitable Food Systems Lending
Kristin Dawson is the Senior Director for Equitable Foods Systems Lending at Reinvestment Fund. She is primarily responsible for managing lending transactions related to food such as financing food retail establishments and other food systems enterprises, including innovative food production, distribution, and point of service models, with an intentional focus on advancing racial equity, including wealth building, entrepreneurship, and quality employment for communities marginalized on the basis of race. Prior to joining Reinvestment Fund, Ms. Dawson worked in city government in economic and community development, budgeting and housing. She holds a bachelor's degree from the Pennsylvania State University and two master's degrees-public policy and social work-from the University of Minnesota.
Marci Monaco-Vavrik is the 2020 inaugural Jeremy Nowak Fellow at Reinvestment Fund. This competitive fellowship was created in honor of the late founder of Reinvestment Fund, Jeremy Nowak. As a part of her fellowship, Ms. Monaco-Vavrik will gain experience by rotating throughout the different departments at Reinvestment Fund. This will help broaden her knowledge and expertise of how capital and analytics can be used to create more equitable communities and the ways in which policy and practice intersect, as well as gain a deeper understanding of all aspects of Reinvestment Fund's work. She is currently involved with a project on Philadelphia's property tax assessment system and a national study partnering with the Institute of Museum and Library Services to assess the impact of libraries and museums on the social wellbeing of communities.
Previously, Ms. Monaco-Vavrik graduated summa cum laude from Temple University with a double major in Sociology and Human Development and Community Engagement, and a minor in General Business Studies. During her college career, she won a Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Award (LAURA) to conduct research with a faculty member focused on college seniors and their transition to the labor market. She also won the prestigious Robert K. Merton Award, given to the most outstanding member of the graduating class in the field of sociology, and the Diamond Award, the highest recognition by Student Affairs given to a Temple University undergraduate student who has demonstrated superior leadership, academic achievement, service to the University, and impact on a community.
Maria Bernal is a Policy Analyst for Reinvestment Fund. Most recently, Ms. Bernal worked as a Portfolio Analyst for Coventry First LLC. As a student at the University of Pittsburgh, she held roles as a System Administrator for the Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Lab (PEEL) and Teaching Assistant for Intermediate Microeconomics in the Economics Department. She also worked in the Qualitative Data Analysis Program at the University Center for Social and Urban Research. She has collected and analyzed qualitative data related to early childhood education and the engagement of graffiti artists in Mexico. Additionally, Ms. Bernal worked for Merck Co. as a Data Analytics Intern. She holds a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Board Chair and Chair of Compensation Committee Moody 's Analytics
- Chairman Moody 's Analytics
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Senior Loan Servicing Specialist
Megan Sonnie is a Loan Coordinator for the Construction Loan Disbursement Department. She is responsible for helping borrowers draw money for their construction projects, along with monitoring construction projects from loan closing until project completion. Prior to Reinvestment Fund, Ms. Sonnie worked at Wells Fargo in the Mortgage Department. Ms. Sonnie holds a bachelor's degree from Rowan University.
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- Senior Associate, Communications
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Governance Committee
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- Member of the Sustainable Development Fund Board of Directors
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- Regional Director, Lending & Investments
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- Construction Loan Manager
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- Senior Program Director for the Healthy Food Financing Initiative
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- Director, Communications and Engagement
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- Lending Associate, Southeast
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- Program Associate, Food Initiatives
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- Chairman of the Community Advisory Board
- Healthcare Consultant
- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- National Development Council
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Loan Committee Chair Skinner Consulting Services
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- Senior Director, New Markets Tax Credit
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- Chairman Memorial Baptist Church
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- Executive Assistant, Chief Executive Offic
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- Retired ( Former Consumer Advocate of Pennsylvania )
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- Vice Chairperson Industrial Areas Foundation
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- Regional Director, Lending & Investments
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Benefit Director TL Ventures
- Chairman Emeritus TL Ventures
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- Director, Lending & Investment
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- 3M Health Information Systems
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Board Vice Chair and Audit Committee Chair University City Science Center
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- Senior Director for Clean Energy and Sustainable Lending
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- Treasurer Rouse Company ( Retired )
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- Chief Human Resources Officer
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Managing Director of Risk and Compliance
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Director of External Relations