I am excited to welcome two interns, Kathy Haines and Nathan Harrington, who joined the DC Fiscal Policy team this summer and have been doing some great research in education and housing policy. I also wanted to share some good news about two current DCFPI staff. 
Kathy Haines is originally from Waterbury, Connecticut. Kathy holds a Bachelors of Environmental Policy degree from Boston Universityand is a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Benin 2004-2007). She has worked in finance and program management for an international public health firm, John Snow Inc. (JSI), and in direct social service case management with Catholic Charities DC. She is now a Master of Public Policy candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. A DC resident since 2007, she aspires to work on policies and programs that prevent the displacement of long-time Washingtonians.
Nathan Harrington is a native of Rockville, Maryland and a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. For the past eight years he taught middle school and high school Social Studies in Prince George’s County Public Schools. This summer he is assisting Soumya Bhat with research on DC schools as part of his Masters in Educational Administration and Policy at Howard University. He is a proud resident of Congress Heights, where he leads the Committee to Restore Shepherd Parkway and serves on the Board of the Ward 8 Farmer’s Market.
And in other news”¦.
Kate Coventry has been appointed to the Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH). Created in 2005, the ICH guides the District’s strategies and policies for meeting the needs of those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. For more information on ICH, please visit www.ich.dc.gov.
Jenny Reed has been promoted to Deputy Director at DCFPI. Jenny looks forward to expanding her role to focus more on DCFPI’s operations and planning while continuing her focus on affordable housing, taxes, and poverty and income trends in DC.
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