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Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion (ComE-IN)
Guest Speaker Biographies - Cathleen Mahon
Cathleen
Mahon is the Executive Director of New York City’s Office of Financial
Empowerment (OFE) and Assistant Commissioner at the Department of Consumer
Affairs. OFE is the first local government initiative in the nation with a
mission aimed expressly at helping to
educate, empower,
and
protect
those with low incomes so they can build assets and make the most of their
financial resources.
Prior to joining the
Department, Ms. Mahon worked as a private consultant on issues of financial
empowerment and asset building. She directed the Asset Funders Network and
worked with high-profile policy and research organizations such as the Aspen
Institute in Washington D.C., as well as grassroots community organizations
and government agencies including the National Federation of Community
Development Credit Unions (NFCDCU), the Neighborhood Economic Development
Advocacy Project, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and
others. She had served as the Director of Policy and Program Development at
the National Federation. Notably, Ms. Mahon has led research teams studying
pathways to scale for asset building efforts; developed training programs on
designing alternative credit products; and published reports on
international micro credit programs, as well as predatory lending prevention
strategies.
Ms.
Mahon earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Duke University and a Master’s of City
Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ms. Mahon resides
in Brooklyn.
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