Kaitlyn Quackenbush

Kaitlyn Quackenbush is originally from the East Bay and is passionate about helping to create a more equitable Bay Area; contributing to the place that made her who she is today. Kaitlyn comes to the PBF Fellowship as an analytical housing policy leader with experience leading impactful housing policy campaigns and building robust community-based programs … Read more

Hannah Phalen

Hannah recently completed her Masters of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy. She got her start in housing policy at the Berkeley Student Cooperatives, where she lived and worked throughout the entirety of her undergraduate career. She contributed to housing research and advocacy at California Community Builders, and has since expanded her … Read more

Gail McGuire

Gail McGuire is a housing developer with 10 years of nonprofit affordable housing development and real estate economics experience. Gail worked at MHDC, EAH and EBALDC. Gail has a BA from Dartmouth College, an MBA in Real Estate and Land Use Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Masters in Real Estate from … Read more

Anthony Jacquez

Born and raised into a blue-collared household in Oxnard, California, Anthony got his start as a Koret Fellow at UC Santa Cruz. During his fellowship, Anthony was selected to conduct community-based research in collaboration with the local migrant community of Santa Cruz County; supporting the goals of the We Belong Project to amplify the voices … Read more

Elizabeth Wampler

Elizabeth is so excited to join the Bay Area LISC team and brings over 15 years of experience in community development and city and transportation planning, plus a deep love of collaboration and tackling inequity in the systems that shape the built environment. Most recently, Elizabeth served as Director for the Great Communities Collaborative at … Read more

Sally Smyth

We are very excited to announce that Sally Smyth has joined the Bay Area office as a Community Development underwriter. As a Community Development underwriter, Sally is responsible for structuring, underwriting, and closing loans as well as providing technical assistance to borrowers. Sally believes deeply in LISC’s mission to work with residents and partners to … Read more