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Robin Hacke

Executive Director, Center for Community Investment

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Washington, D.C.

Robin Hacke is executive director of the Center for Community Investment. She brings more than two decades of investment experience to the work, having served as director of capital innovation for Living Cities, as a venture capitalist and strategy consultant in the technology industry and as a public finance banker. Most recently, Robin was a senior fellow at The Kresge Foundation from 2014-16, where she researched and incubated a capital absorption practice to improve the ability of cities to attract and leverage capital for investment in public purposes and explore how philanthropy can develop strategies to advance this goal. She has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a consultant to major foundations and a member of the Steering Committee for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Working Cities Challenge.