Full Name
Marion McFadden McFadden
Job Title
Vice President Of Public Policy
Organization
Enterprise Community Partners
Speaker Bio
Marion Mollegen McFadden serves as vice president of public policy at Enterprise. Previously, she served as deputy assistant secretary for Grant Programs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Housing (HUD). At HUD, she oversaw affordable housing and community development programs, including the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG), the HOME Investment Partnerships program, the Housing Trust Fund, the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) and CDBG Disaster Recovery funds, including the recent National Disaster Resilience Competition grants. In this role she formed and facilitated multiple public-private partnerships, including with the Rockefeller Foundation to support communities planning for disaster resilience, with the Silicon Valley-based company GitHub to bring tech education and resources to residents of public housing, and with the nonprofit organization KaBOOM! to create a design competition to retrofit cities and other built spaces to accommodate play for better health of residents.
Marion holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Howard University School of Law (2000) and a B.A. from Northwestern University (1994).
Marion holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Howard University School of Law (2000) and a B.A. from Northwestern University (1994).