Nancy O. Andrews
President and CEO, Low Income Investment Fund
Nancy Andrews is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF). LIIF is a $600 million Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that has invested over $700 million in community projects. LIIF s investments have leveraged $5 billion in private capital for poor communities in 26 states across the U.S. Ms. Andrews career spans 30 years in the community development field. In addition to her work at LIIF, Ms. Andrews serves on numerous boards and committees of community development and environmental organizations, including Housing Partnership Network, National Low Income Housing Coalition and Center for International Forestry Research. She is a recognized expert on the challenges facing America s neighborhoods and is frequently asked to testify before Congress and speak at conferences and events. Previously, Ms. Andrews served as the Deputy Director of the Ford Foundation’s Office of Program Related Investments, where she assisted in the management of a $130 million social investment portfolio. She also designed and launched the foundation s housing policy program, which focused on national housing and capital market issues. Following her tenure at the Ford Foundation, Ms. Andrews was the Chief Financial Officer of the International Water Management Institute, a World Bank supported development organization with offices in ten countries. Ms. Andrews has also been an independent consultant specializing in community development, social investment programs, financial analysis and housing policy. During the Clinton administration, she consulted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to restructure the $18 billion multi-family mortgage portfolio and for the Department of Treasury to establish the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. Ms. Andrews received an M.S. in Urban Planning with a concentration in Real Estate Finance from Columbia University.
Sandra Braunstein
Director, Division of Consumer and Community Affairs, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Sandra Braunstein is the Director of the Board’s Division of Consumer and Community Affairs. As Director, Ms. Braunstein is principally responsible for the development and administration of Federal Reserve policies related to consumer financial services and consumer protection. Ms. Braunstein administers outreach efforts to the financial services industry, state, local, and federal government officials, and consumer and community organizations. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board, Ms. Braunstein was Executive Director of a local community development corporation in Washington, D.C. Previous experience includes serving as the coordinator for commercial revitalization in Alexandria, Virginia, working as a management consultant for McManis Associates, and as a federal program administrator for Wilmington, Delaware.
William J. Bynum
CEO, Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/Hope Community Credit Union
William (Bill) Bynum is CEO of ECD/HOPE (Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/Hope Community Credit Union), a community development financial institution, intermediary and policy center that addresses development needs confronting low-wealth people and communities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. Since 1994 ECD/HOPE has generated over $1 billion in financing and related assistance for entrepreneurs, homebuyers and community development projects in the Delta, areas affected by Hurricane Katrina and other distressed Mid South communities, benefiting more than 70,000 individuals. A Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, Bynum is recipient of the University of North Carolina Distinguished Alumnus Award, Ernst & Young/ Kauffman Foundation National Entrepreneurship of the Year Award, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions Annie Vamper Award, and National Rural Assembly Rural Hero Award. He serves as a trustee/director of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Foundation for the Mid South, Regions Bank Community Development Corporation, William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, Mississippi Children’s Museum, Mississippi Access to Justice Commission and is a Presidential appointee to the Community Development Advisory Board, which he currently chairs. Prior to joining ECD/HOPE, Bill helped establish Self-Help, a pioneer in the development banking industry, and directed programs at the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center.
Lori Chatman
President, Enterprise Community Loan Fund
Lori Chatman is the president of the Enterprise Community Loan Fund and a senior vice president of Enterprise Community Partners. Ms. Chatman oversees the daily operations of the Loan Fund and leads Enterprise’s efforts to raise and deploy capital through large-scale regional and local loan funds. Ms. Chatman joined the Enterprise Community Loan Fund in November 2004 with more than 15 years of progressively responsible experience in the field. Prior to her current position, she was the senior vice president and chief credit officer for the Loan Fund with the responsibility of reviewing and approving loan transactions and overseeing the loan portfolio. Ms. Chatman also was responsible for maintaining credit quality and standards. Before joining the Loan Fund, Ms. Chatman was the director of lending for the Calvert Social Investment Foundation, where she managed the foundation’s $55 million portfolio of loans to community development financial institutions (CDFIs), community development corporations, social services providers and international micro finance institutions. Ms. Chatman also was responsible for delivering a broad menu of portfolio and asset management services under contractual arrangements with a host of institutional investors, including administering a $22 million portfolio of loans funded by these investors. Ms. Chatman began her community development career with NCB Development Corporation (now NCB Capital Impact), a CDFI-like organization located in Washington, D.C. She spent several years as a lender prior to assuming responsibility for the management and strategic direction of the organization’s national lending programs in cooperative affordable housing, charter schools, community health care and community and economic development.
Elyse Cherry
CEO, Boston Community Capital
Elyse Cherry is Chief Executive Officer of Boston Community Capital (BCC), and the President of Boston Community Venture Fund. Ms. Cherry helped found BCC in 1984 as a member of its original Board of Directors. Since then, Ms. Cherry has been integrally involved in the development and growth of the organization from a start-up organization to what is, today, a national model for community investment. During Ms. Cherry’s eleven-year tenure as CEO, she has spearheaded two successful rounds of aggressively implemented strategic planning and has grown assets under management by a factor of more than thirty. Since 1992, Ms. Cherry has served on the boards of directors of more than a dozen privately held companies including Pilgrim Insurance Company, ZipCar, and Acelero Learning. In addition, Ms. Cherry is an active civic leader. She served as a member of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s nineteen-member statewide transition team. She is the current Chair of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a recent past Chair of Mass Equality, an organization dedicated to the establishment and protection of civil marriage for the GLBT community. She has also served as Vice Chair of Opportunity Finance Network, a national organization of community finance intermediaries. Among other appointments, she is a member of the Boards of Wall Street Without Walls and The Philanthropic Initiative, the Dean’s Council of Northeastern University Law School, the Mission Driven Investment Committee of the Kellogg Foundation, and the external Board of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. Ms. Cherry is an attorney and a former partner at the law firm of Hale and Dorr, now known as Wilmer Hale, where her transactional practice focused on commercial real estate finance and development. In 1992, Ms. Cherry left Hale and Dorr to become Vice President and Counsel of SRB Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation. She subsequently served as CEO of Earthwide Products Corporation, an investment fund targeting environmental businesses. Early in her career, Ms. Cherry served as a field examiner at the New England region of the National Labor Relations Board and as a VISTA volunteer in rural Tennessee. Ms. Cherry is a graduate of Wellesley College (1975) and the Northeastern University School of Law, where she recently delivered the student commencement address.
Stephen M. Cross
Deputy Director, FHLBank Regulations, Federal Housing Finance Agency
Steve Cross is the Deputy Director of the Division of FHLBank Regulations for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (Finance Agency). The Division of FHLBank Regulations is responsible for supervising the twelve Federal Home Loan Banks and the Office of Finance to ensure that the Federal Home Loan Bank System and the individual banks operate in a safe and sound manner and contribute to the strength and vitality of the Nation’s housing finance system. The Division carries out its responsibilities through ongoing analysis and monitoring of the performance of the Banks and the System supported by annual, on-site examinations of the Banks and the Office of Finance. Mr. Cross was named to his current position in May 2002. Prior to joining the Finance Agency, Mr. Cross was the Director of FDIC's Division of Compliance and Consumer Affairs. Mr. Cross has also served as the Deputy Comptroller for Community and Consumer Policy with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and as a member of the faculty of the Economics Department at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. Mr. Cross holds a Ph.D. in economics from University of Virginia.
Derek Douglas
Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs, White House Domestic Policy Council
Derek Douglas serves on the White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC) as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, where he leads the DPC’s work on urban and metropolitan policy issues. Prior to working in the White House, Douglas served as Washington Counsel to New York Governor David A. Paterson and Director of Governor Paterson's Washington, D.C. Office. In this capacity, Douglas served as the Governor’s chief architect for federal policy and oversaw federal policy development and advocacy on domestic, economic, and urban policy issues for the State of New York. Prior to his appointment in 2007, Douglas served as Associate Director of Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress where he founded and served as Director of the Economic Mobility Program. Prior to joining the Center, Douglas was a Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP and an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF). Douglas graduated from the University of Michigan with Highest Honors in Economics and from the Yale Law School.
Joseph Firschein
Assistant Director and Community Affairs Officer, Division of Consumer and Community Affairs, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Joseph Firschein leads the Federal Reserve Board's Community Affairs team that is responsible for working with Reserve Banks and practitioners to promote community development policy research and best practices as well as assessing the performance of Reserve Banks with respect to the Community Affairs function. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board, Mr. Firschein served as a Director in Fannie Mae’s Housing and Community Development Division where he managed the business segment responsible for financing community development financial institutions and led the company’s efforts to sell foreclosed single family homes to public entities and nonprofits. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Mr. Firschein managed lending at the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund and served as lead community development analyst at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Housing Branch. Joseph is actively involved with a number of Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit and educational organizations. He was a founding board member of the Educated Consumer Project, a nonprofit organization that provides financial literacy education to low-income high school students. He is a board member and Treasurer of Yachad, a nonprofit organization that revitalizes housing in low-income neighborhoods. He also serves as adjunct professor at Virginia Tech’s Alexandria, Virginia masters program in urban planning where he teaches a course in community development finance. Joseph has an MBA in Finance from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business; a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) from the University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy; and a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University.
Donna J. Gambrell
Director, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
Donna Gambrell has served as Director of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund since November 26, 2007. The CDFI Fund expands the capacity of financial institutions to provide credit, capital, and financial services to underserved populations and communities in the United States. Prior to the CDFI Fund, Gambrell served as a Deputy Director at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). During her tenure, Ms. Gambrell oversaw the FDIC’s national compliance bank examination, community affairs, consumer affairs and deposit insurance outreach programs. To that end, she managed initiatives related to the Community Reinvestment Act and fair lending laws; provided guidance to consumers on current issues such as identity theft, subprime and predatory lending and credit card debt; increased the public’s understanding of and confidence in the banking system; and developed and implemented strategies that provided access to credit for underserved communities. Previously, at the request of former FDIC Chairman Donald E. Powell, she served 18 months in the Gulf Coast Region (from February 2006 to August 2007) – as part of a temporary assignment – working on rebuilding initiatives in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which struck the region in 2005. Ms. Gambrell worked on site in Louisiana and Mississippi spearheading partnerships among financial institutions, government agencies and community-based organizations to promote community and economic development in areas devastated by the hurricanes, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. Ms. Gambrell began her career with the FDIC in April 1991 as a Community Affairs Officer in the agency’s New York Region. She served in increasingly responsible compliance and consumer protection positions at the Corporation, and in May 2000 was promoted to Deputy Director. Prior to joining the FDIC, Ms. Gambrell worked at the Resolution Trust Corporation (1989-1991), the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (1987-1989), and the U.S. General Accounting Office (1979-1987). Ms. Gambrell received a B.S. Degree from Towson State University, Baltimore, Maryland, and an MS Degree from New York University. In 2004, she received a National Public Service Award for her innovative work over the years in formulating public-private partnerships.
Alicia K. Glen
Managing Director, Community Investment Group, Goldman Sachs
Alicia is head of the Community Investment Group (CIG) and is responsible for implementing the firm's Community Reinvestment Act business strategy. She is a member of the CIG Investment Committee and also serves on the Diverse Business Engagement Committee. Alicia joined Goldman Sachs in 2003 and was named managing director in 2005. Prior to joining the firm, Alicia was the assistant commissioner for housing finance at the New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development from 1998 to 2002. She was a real estate associate at Fulbright & Jaworski and at Kalkines, Arky Zall & Bernstein, (now Manatt, Phelps), from 1996 to 1998. Alicia was also an attorney at Brooklyn Legal Services from 1993 to 1996. Prior to attending law school in 1990, Alicia worked for the Manhattan borough president’s office. Alicia teaches Real Estate Development and Urban Markets at the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Corporation for Supportive Housing, the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, the Bowery Residents Committee, and the Citizens Budget Commission. Alicia graduated from Amherst College in 1988 and Columbia Law School in 1993.
Lisa G. Hall
Chief Lending Officer, Calvert Foundation
Lisa Hall is the Chief Lending Officer for Calvert Foundation, whose mission is to maximize the flow of capital to communities in need in order to foster a more equitable and sustainable society. Lisa manages a team of 10 investment professionals and a $165 million portfolio of loans and investments to more than 200 domestic community loan funds, social enterprises and international micro-finance institutions. Lisa joined Calvert Foundation in 1995 and is a member of the senior management team, helping to shape and implement Calvert Foundation’s fundraising initiatives, strategic planning and marketing efforts. Lisa previously served as a credit officer for the American Communities Fund in the Housing and Community Development Division of Fannie Mae Corporation, where she held numerous positions over a 7 year period. Lisa also worked in the Clinton Administration at the National Economic Council as a Senior Policy Advisor covering community development issues. Lisa has held various positions in real estate and community development finance with the Enterprise Foundation and JP Morgan Chase (previously Chemical Bank). She holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University. Lisa currently resides in the Woodridge neighborhood of Washington, DC with her husband and young daughter. She serves on the boards of the Cultural Development Corporation, Open Door Housing Fund, and the Fair Mortgage Collaborative. She is also member of the Advisory Council for CARS (the CDFI Assessment Rating System).
James W. Hammersley
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, U. S. Small Business Administration
Mr. Hammersley was appointed to his present position in April, 2008. In this position, he is responsible for evaluating the existing policies and programs of the Small Business Administration as well as translating economic, social and demographic trends that have an impact on small business competitiveness into policy prescriptions that will allow the Agency to be more proactive in addressing the needs of small business. Previously, Mr. Hammersley served the Director of the Office of Loan Programs. In this position, he was responsible for loan policy development for SBA’s Section 7(a) Guaranteed Business Loan Program and Section 504 Certified Development Company Loan Program. Annual loan production for these two programs exceeded $20 billion dollars. He also oversaw SBA’s secondary market program and loan pooling program. Mr. Hammersley joined SBA in 1977 and has spent most of his career in the Financial Assistance Programs. He has worked on many improvements to the lending programs including SBA Express and the Preferred Lenders Program. He also headed the team that developed the structure for the securitization of the unguaranteed portion of Section 7(a) loans. During his career at SBA, Mr. Hammersley received both the Distinguished Service Award and the Meritorious Service Award. Mr. Hammersley has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration degree from the College of William and Mary, where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma.
Matt Josephs
Program Manager, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
Matt Josephs is a Program Manager with the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund of the United States Department of the Treasury. The CDFI Fund supports the development and growth of financial institutions that principally serve distressed communities or under-served populations. Matt has been with the Fund since 1999, first as an analyst for Policy and Research and currently as the Manager for the New Markets Tax Credit Program. He is also serving in an acting capacity as the Deputy Director for Policies and Programs at the CDFI Fund. Prior to joining the CDFI Fund, Matt served on the staff of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the United States Senate, where he concentrated on issues relating to housing and community development. Matt has also worked as a policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in the Office of Public and Indian Housing. Matt received a Bachelors of Arts Degree from Emory University in 1990, and a Masters of Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997.
Clara Miller
President and CEO, Nonprofit Finance Fund
Clara Miller is President and CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), a national leader in nonprofit, philanthropic and social enterprise finance. NFF, which Ms. Miller created and has run for over 25 years, serves as a “philanthropic bank” serving both social sector organizations and their funders. Ms. Miller is currently a board member of GuideStar, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Enterprise Community Loan Fund, and Community Wealth Ventures, a subsidiary of Share Our Strength. She is Treasurer of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Board. She is also a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Community Development Advisory Council, and the Independent Sector’s Building Value Together Committee. Ms. Miller was voted one of Power & Influence Top 50 by The NonProfit Times in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Ms. Miller was appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Advisory Board in 1996, advising the then newly-created Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. She served until 2002, and was its chair from 1999 to 2002. Ms. Miller was a board member of the National Community Capital Association from 1992 to 2001, and was its chair for six years from 1995-2001. Before her tenure at NFF, Ms. Miller worked at The New York Community Trust, The National Academy of Sciences, and as an economic development planner in Corning, NY. Ms. Miller has a Masters Degree from Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning, and she completed the Institute for Nonprofit Management at Columbia University.
Jeremy Nowak
President, The Reinvestment Fund
Jeremy Nowak is the President of The Reinvestment Fund (TRF). TRF has invested $1 billion in housing, community arts centers, schools, commercial real estate, and sustainable energy projects. TRF’s most recent venture is policymap.com, a national mapping tool with more than 4,000 data elements. In addition TRF, Mr. Nowak is a board member of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank. He also chairs the Board of Mastery Charter School Foundation, a network of four inner city charter middle & high schools; and Alex’s Lemonade Stand, a charity that has raised more $25 million for pediatric cancer research during the past four years. The author of numerous articles, recent publications examine policy options for distressed cities and the role of art and culture in neighborhood regeneration. He was a Fellow at the Aspen Institute, in a program for entrepreneurial leaders in education and is a member of the Harvard (Kennedy School) executive session on cities and social enterprise.
Mark Pinsky
President and CEO, Opportunity Finance Network
Mark Pinsky is President and Chief Executive Officer of Opportunity Finance Network, the national network of high-performing community development finance institutions and other opportunity finance institutions. Opportunity Finance Network is leading the industry toward its goal of creating a high-impact, high-volume financing system providing tens of billions of dollars annually benefiting millions of low-income and low-wealth people. Mark is primarily responsible for Opportunity Finance Network’s vision and strategy. Mark joined Opportunity Finance Network in February 1995. During his tenure, the CDFI industry has grown more than ten-fold while Opportunity Finance Network has expanded membership more than 400% and assets more than 1500%. Under his leadership, the organization has introduced several innovative products including the Equity Equivalent investment (EQ2), the CDFI Assessment and Ratings System™ (CARS™), performance-based financing, and the Wachovia NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance. OFN is leading the industry on policy, as well. Mark speaks often to diverse audiences inside and outside the industry about the past, present, and future of the opportunity finance field and its ability to transform mainstream financial systems. He writes about the industry for a wide range of publications and has published five books. Mark currently chairs the national boards of the CDFI Data Project, and CARS™. He also serves on the Boards of Net Impact, the CDFI Coalition, and New Mexico Community Capital as well as on advisory boards to the Center for Community Development Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Bank of America’s National Consumer Advisory Council, and several New Market Tax Credit community development entities. He served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2003 through 2005, including service as Chair of the Council in 2005. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Mark to the CDFI Fund Advisory Board in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he served until 2006. Mark was the founding President of Congregation Tzedek v’Shalom, a Reconstructionist synagogue in Newtown, PA. Mark and his family live in Yardley, Pennsylvania.
Benson F. Roberts
Senior Vice President, Policy and Program Development, LISC
Benson (Buzz) Roberts is Senior Vice President for Policy and Program Development at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). LISC is the nation’s largest nonprofit investor in low-income community development, operating through 30 local offices and a national rural community program. Mr. Roberts directs LISC’s activities in public policy and research and assessment. He was involved in the creation of such federal policies as the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, the New Markets Tax Credit, and the HOME housing development program. Mr. Roberts a board member of the National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders, the National Housing Conference, and the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition. He is a regular contributor to Novogradac Journal of Tax Credit Housing, an advisor to Affordable Housing Finance and NMTC Monthly Report, and the co-author of several books and articles on affordable housing and community development.
Debra D. Schwartz
Director, Program-related Investments, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Debra Schwartz is Director of Program-related Investments (“PRIs”) for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, an international, independent, grantmaking institution headquartered in Chicago. PRIs are below-market loans and investments made for charitable purposes. Under Schwartz’s leadership, the Foundation has tripled its commitment to this innovative form of philanthropy, allocating $300 million to a self-financing portfolio that supports community development and affordable housing across the United States. Before coming to MacArthur in 1995, Schwartz was chief financial officer for a child welfare agency in Chicago. From 1987 to 1992 she was a public finance investment banker at John Nuveen & Co. Schwartz is a past presidential appointee to the United States Treasury Department Community Development Advisory Board and a founding member of the PRI Makers Network steering committee. Currently a Lecturer at the University of Chicago, Schwartz graduated from Yale University and earned a Master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Sue Taoka
Executive Vice President, ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia
Sue Taoka is currently the Executive Vice President at ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia. Until June 2008, she served for 14 years as Executive Director of the Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority (SCIDpda), the major property management and community development organization in the Chinatown International District. She previously served as the Deputy Chief of Staff to Mayor Norm Rice for housing, economic and community development, neighborhoods, parks, and libraries. She is currently the co-president of the National Coalition of Asian Pacific American Community Development, and a board member of Impact Capital, and a member of the National Community Securities Initiative Advisory Board. Sue is also a founding member of the Distressed Communities Coalition and the National Coalition of Asian Pacific American Community Development and a member of the Washington Bar Association.
Paul N. Weech
Principal, Innovative Housing Strategies, LLC
Paul Weech is a federal housing policy expert with more than 25 years of eclectic experience in the housing and financial services fields. He is currently working as a consultant to various clients through Innovative Housing Strategies, LLC – a business he established in September 2008. In August last year, Weech left Fannie Mae after serving in affordable housing and public policy leadership positions for nearly a decade. He served most recently as the vice president for Mission Strategy and Execution in the Business Strategy Group. His accomplishments at Fannie Mae include the design and launch of the company’s signature mission initiative, the American Dream Commitment, Fannie Mae’s partnership with leading nonprofit groups and foundations to end homelessness, and his management of the company’s affordable housing goals efforts. Prior to joining Fannie Mae in 1998, Weech served as the chief of staff at the United States Small Business Administration (SBA), the staff director for the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and as a senior analyst for Housing and Credit for the U.S. Senate Committee on Budget. Other positions he has held include: regional group manager for West Africa with the American International Group (AIG); budget examiner at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB); and research associate doing anthropological fieldwork in Cote d’Ivoire. Weech received a master of public policy degree from the Ford School for Public Policy Studies at the University of Michigan in 1981 and a bachelor of arts in political science from Duke University in 1978.
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