Founder and Executive Director of Accompany Capital (formerly Business Center for New Americans,) developing and implementing economic development programs in New York City including microfinance, microenterprise, match funding, homeownership programs, and programs that promote financial inclusion. Fundraising and economic resource development, bringing new opportunities to small business owners, entrepreneurs, and sole proprietors, with a special focus on immigrants and refugees, through our lending programs and educational workshops in our Manhattan and Queens offices.Public speaker and consultant: specialist in ways to replicate and implement best practices in financial inclusion programs, particularly with immigrant and refugee populations.Board member at Credit Builders Alliance (CBA), advising about ways to implement innovative initiatives and programs that allow members of under-served communities to begin to build credit history and gain financial access. Board member at the New York State Coalition of CDFIs. On the Advisory Board of the New York City Neighborhood Capital Corporation (NYCNCC), which is managed by the NYCEDC, and which makes low-interest loans to community development projects in low-income communities. Member of the National Advisory Committee for the International Rescue Committee’s Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO).