affiliations

Boston Federal Reserve, CT Working Cities Challenge – Advisory Committee Member
Jun 2016 – Sep 2016  
The Working Cities Challenge (WCC), launched in 2013, builds cross-sector collaboration to solve issues impacting the lives of these cities’ lower-income residents. Grounded in Boston Fed research, the WCC encourages leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to advance proposals that tackle complex challenges facing smaller post-industrial cities and achieve large scale impact across communities.

ALICE Research Advisory Committee – Advisory Committee Member
Dec 2015 — Jul 2016
The United Way ALICE Project provides a framework, tools, and language to measure and understand the struggles of the growing number of households in our communities that do not earn enough to afford basic necessities. United Way has called this group ALICE, an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. ALICE households earn above the Federal Poverty Level, but not enough to live and work in the modern economy. This research initiative partners with state United Way organizations to present data that can stimulate meaningful discussion, attract new partners, and ultimately inform strategies that lead to positive change.

CFED's Asset and Opportunity Network, Federal Policy Working Group — Member
Jan 2014 – Aug 2015  
The A&O Network formed a Federal Policy Working Group in order to advance the action items on the Network’s Federal Policy Agenda to expand the reach and deepen the impact of asset-based strategies.

Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence — DELTA FOCUS Leadership Team Member
Jan 2012 – Aug 2013  
DELTA FOCUS (Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances, Focusing on Outcomes for Communities United with States) is a five-year cooperative agreement funding 10 state domestic violence coalition grantees to engage in primary prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV). Primary prevention means stopping IPV before it occurs.