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

Ella Zimbalist

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

Jordan Shapiro

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