The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a New York City-headquartered nonprofit community development financial institution, has announced the appointed of Valerie White to lead its national housing team.
White has served as senior executive director at LISC New York since 2020 and will now also oversee LISC’s national efforts to build on its $30.4 billion in affordable housing investments. She will also retain her LISC New York position.
Before joining LISC, White was executive vice president of Empire State Development Corporation in New York, where she led the division charged with expanding economic opportunity for businessowners facing long-standing capital gaps. Earlier, she was vice president for external affairs with Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp., and a managing director at Standard & Poor’s, where she managed global social and affordable housing analytics.
“Housing has always been at the core of LISC’s work, and it has always been a product of deep local engagement and community innovation,” White said. “Our goal is to deliver more expertise and resources to those local efforts, scale up successful programs to reach more people, build efficiencies in the deployment of capital and services across our organization, and—alongside local stakeholders—drive greater impact and economic growth.”
