Ms. Wise joined the Housing Authority of the City of San Buenaventura as Chief Executive Officer in October of 2011 following a 25-year career in both the public and private sectors as a banker and developer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Fresno, and is a graduate of the Denali Initiative, a fellowship program that teaches nonprofit executives to transform their social missions into profit-making enterprises. Early on in her career, Ms. Wise worked for Bank of America and the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, and then she moved on to serve as executive director at Walker’s Point Development Corporation in Milwaukee before forming her own consulting firm specializing in distressed organizations with a concentration in nonprofits, including housing agencies, homeless services agencies and nonprofit developers. Previous housing authority leadership roles included executive director posts at the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Gunnison County Housing Authority. During her tenure as the executive director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, she closed the first and largest mixed use development project for the agency.  It was a $35,000,000 project that included the redevelopment of the HPHA’s largest public housing development.

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