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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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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 recieved 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 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.
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Jennifer Newon Research Assistant
Jennifer Newon is a research assistant at the Woodstock Institute. She has a strong interest in applying statistics and quantitative analysis to social science research.
Jennifer received her B.A. from California State University Long Beach in Psychology and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology from Loyola University Chicago.
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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.
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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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