Currently as a small business lending officer at a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), I'm utilizing my Urban Planning and Business Management disciplines recently garnered from MIT in practice alongside policy expertise engendered from Brown University to deepen my 10+ years of experience in direct community engaged work -- from the nonprofit to city and state government sectors across the state of Rhode Island, to directly impact and improve Rhode Island's most marginalized urban communities, utilizing and making accessible innovative financial tools and knowledge to support, resource and empower these communities to collectively and collaboratively develop self-subsistent means of socioeconomic development, interdependence, and sustained vitality.