Kirsten Moy is a Senior Fellow with the Aspen Institute. Her most recent research initiative, conducted for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco as a Visiting Scholar, focuses on the application of complexity science to community development. Until June 30, 2014, she was the Director of Scale Initiatives for the Economic Opportunities Program at Aspen. In this capacity, she was the project manager for the development of two national platforms focused on achieving scale in the nonprofit industry: i.e., the Asset Platform and the EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) Platform. She came to the Institute in 2001 after serving as director for the Community Development Innovation and Infrastructure Initiative, a national research project on the future of community development and community development finance. Ms. Moy also served as the first director of the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, a new program created in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under the Clinton Administration to provide capital to community-based financial institutions providing financial services to communities underserved by traditional financial institutions. Prior to joining Treasury, she designed products for pension funds and other institutional investors to invest in affordable housing and other community development initiatives. She is the co-author of From Distrust to Inclusion: Insights into the Financial Lives of Very Low Income Consumersand New Pathways to Scale for Community Development Finance among other publications:
Why Complexity Science in Community Development (pdf)
Introduction to Complexity for Community Development Practitioners (slide deck)
The Annie E. Casey Foundation and the EITC: An Inadvertent Venture into Complexity
Changing Capital Markets and their Implications for Community Development Finance