Kirsten Moy

Kirsten S. Moy is a practitioner member of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation at Waterloo University as well as a long-time Senior Fellow with the Aspen Institute. Kirsten consistently seeks to work with and support organizations with an ecosystem perspective, such as Food Shift. Her current research, which was jump-started by research conducted for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco as a Visiting Scholar, focuses on complexity science and its application to community development.

Kirsten served as the first director of the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, a program created in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under the Clinton Administration to provide capital to community-based financial institutions offering services to communities underserved by traditional banks. Prior to joining Treasury, she designed products for pension funds and other institutional investors to invest in affordable housing and other community facilities. While at the Aspen Institute, Kirsten directed a multi-year initiative for the Economic Opportunities Program to assist nonprofits in achieving greater scale through the creation of two platforms (the Asset Platform and the Earned Income Tax Credit Platform) for asset building in lower-income communities.

Kirsten currently serves on the board of Island Press, a nonprofit publisher focusing on the environment, ecology, and the human built environment.

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