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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
Ella Zimbalist is excited to join the Partnership for the Bay’s Future and San Francisco Foundation as an Associate Initiative Officer, where she will leverage her previous experience managing economic mobility programs at United South End Settlements in Boston to advance the Foundation’s mission of promoting equitable access to opportunity. Growing up in Northampton, MA, … Read more
Why do you do what you do? Over the last twenty years I’ve lived in the Bay Area, I have watched my home region become more and more exclusionary as people are being pushed from the homes, neighborhoods and cities they’ve spent their entire lives in. And at my previous job, I developed a desire … Read more
Asha Rao has recently joined BALISC as Director of Investments. She has several years of working in the CDFI industry as an investment manager with Wells Fargo previously, lending to and investing in CDFIs nationwide. Prior to WF Asha worked at Standard and Poor’s in New York and at the Nasscom Foundation in New Delhi, … Read more
Why do you do what you do? I’m the proud daughter of immigrants: my mom is from the Philippines and my dad is from Turkey. Growing up in the Bay Area with my family, I saw firsthand how where we live and who we are affects our access to opportunity. And because I call this … Read more
Why do you do what you do? I am a first generation San Franciscan, and a descendant of immigrant parents who fled their war-torn native land, El Salvador. A passion for community service and organizing was a gift passed on to me by a remarkable, warrior woman, my mother, who lost everything due to tyranny … Read more
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