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Dory Rand President
Dory M. Rand joined Woodstock Institute as its sixth president in July 2008. She brings a
wealth of community reinvestment knowledge and proven ability to shape
financial services policy to promote real world benefits for lower-income
people.
Ms. Rand joins Woodstock Institute after 16 years at the Sargent Shriver
National Center
on Poverty Law in Chicago,
most recently as the supervising attorney of the Center’s Community Investment
Unit. In this position, Ms. Rand
advocated for and represented lower-income people on welfare law and public
policy issues at the local, state, and national levels. She and her staff focused on expanding
community reinvestment and asset-building opportunities that move people from
poverty to prosperity.
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Geoff Smith Vice President
Geoff is Vice President at Woodstock
Institute. He has conducted research and written analyses of housing
and community development topics including mortgage lending policy,
housing market trends, small business finance, financial institution
regulation, access to banking services, and general community
reinvestment policy.
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Patricia Woods-Hessing Administrative Director
Patricia Woods-Hessing is the Administrative Director and financial officer of Woodstock Institute. She is responsible for day-to-day operations, including managing Woodstock's budget, financial and grant reporting, and publication production. Pat has a B.S. in Administration from YMCA College, has completed courses in accounting at Harold Washington College, and has completed the NFC Bookkeepers Certificate from the NFC Financial Management Institute.
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Tom Feltner Policy and Communications Director
Tom is responsible for the organization's consumer lending policy and research, media relations and fundraising. Since 2003, Tom has worked to shape the payday loan, automobile title loan, and refund anticipation loan policy debate by documenting the worst abuses in the industry and proposing meaningful reforms. He has also presented Woodstock Institute's research and policy recommendations at national and regional conferences and has organized numerous local workshops on community reinvestment policy and practice.
Tom received a B.A. with high honors in Philosophy and Sociology from
DePaul University and a Master of Urban Planning and Policy from the
University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Beverly Berryhill Administrative Associate
Beverly Berryhill is Administrative Associate for the Institute. Her responsibilities include clerical support for staff, database maintenance, publication formatting, and general administrative duties at Woodstock Institute.
Beverly attended Olive Harvey College and has recieved the NFC Bookkeepers Certificate NFC Financial Management Institute.
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Sarah Duda Research and Project Associate
Sarah Duda is the Research and Project Associate at Woodstock Institute. While at Woodstock, she has contributed to research and written analysis on various issues concerning housing policy and access to fairly priced financial products and services. Sarah’s primary interests include economic development theory, urban policy, and the development of equitable strategies for community reinvestment.
Sarah received her B.A. from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and her Master’s in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Danielle Barnes Intern
Danielle joined Woodstock Institute as an intern in August 2008. Her interests include consumer lending policy and practice, community reinvestment strategies and geographic information systems. Danielle received her B.A. in Sociology from Binghamton University in Binghamton New York. She currently attends the University of Illinois at Chicago where she is pursuing a Master of Public Administration.
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Kathryn Biggins Intern
Kathryn joined Woodstock Institute as an intern in August
of 2008. Her areas of interest include
foreclosure research, specifically the neighborhood impact from foreclosure
properties, sustainability development as a tool for economic development and
public education and advocacy for financial literacy.
Kathryn received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Akron
in Akron, Ohio
and is currently working on a Master of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois
at Chicago.
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Malcolm Bush Senior Advisor
Malcolm Bush is Senior Advisor at Woodstock Institute and served as President from 1992 to 2008. He is also a research fellow at the Chapin Hall
Center at the University of Chicago. He has directed research, policy and strategy projects on community reinvestment and economic development in the U.S. and other countries; access to capital, credit, and other financial services; financial asset building strategies; the deceptive impact of credit card terms and conditions; monitoring financial institution performance; discrimination in the home buying process; community development financial institutions; and the economic development potential of social service organizations. He sits on the boards of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions, the Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund, and chairs the board of the Financial Markets Center. He is also a board member of the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood (CIESPI) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has served a three year term on the Consumer Advisory Council of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board where he chaired the bank regulation committee.
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Dan Immergluck Senior Consultant
Dan Immergluck, formerly Senior Vice President of the Woodstock Institute, has remained with Woodstock as a consultant. He has worked and written extensively on CRA policy, fair housing, fair lending, and predatory lending issues, economic development patterns and policy, development finance, and related topics. Dan holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Sean Zielenbach Senior Consultant
Sean Zielenbach, previously Research Director at the Washington, DC-based Housing Research Foundation, has joined Woodstock as a consultant. He has worked and written extensively on issues relating to neighborhood revitalization, affordable and public housing, and development finance. He continues to work with a number of different community development organizations on issues of strategic planning, program/product development, and impact definition and measurement. Sean holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University.
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