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.

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.

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.

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.

Beverly Berryhill Administrative Associate

Sarah Duda Research and Project Associate

Sarah is a research assistant at Woodstock Institute. Her primary interests are economic development theory, and urban policy, and reinvestment strategies that increase access to fairly priced financial products and services in underserved communities.

Sarah received her B.A. from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and will receive her Masters in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in May 2008.

Jennifer Newon Research Assistant

Walter Bush IV Research Assistant

Walter is a research assistant at the Woodstock Institute. His interests focus around community economic development in marginalized urban areas, technical assistance for small business creation and sustainability, and workforce development.

Walter received his B.A. in Sociology, with highest honors, from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois and is currently advancing towards a Masters’ Degree of Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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.

Sean Zielenbach Senior Consultant