Ramon Jacobson, Executive Director 

rjacobson@lisc.org | 202-739-9273

Ramon Jacobson serves as Executive Director for LISC DC, leading the DC office of a national community development finance institution that works with residents and local leadership to forge communities of opportunity.

Ramon joined LISC in 1998 after receiving his MBA from Yale SOM.  He leads a team engaged in a broad range of work to build equity, opportunity, and community in the nation’s capital and across the DC region.  He has managed more than $400 million in CDFI investments, loans, grants, and tax credit equity, that other financial institutions are hard pressed to make. These investments in affordable homeownership, rental housing, commercial properties, as well as community facilities helped to transform desperately disinvested neighborhoods two decades ago, and today help preserve economic diversity so that the people who survived the difficult decades can remain in the face of displacement and gentrification.

Ramon began his career working in the notorious, late 80’s New York City shelter system, developing programs to get single adults off the streets in the midst of a deadly cold snap.  He helped grow and develop supportive and rural housing in the Twin Cities. He also has worked with health foundations where he studied preventable hospitalizations and the impact of primary care, as well as job training and anti-violence programs. He holds a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.  He serves on the board of the leading national nonprofit, Preservation of Affordable Housing in Boston, the EL Haynes Charter School Foundation in DC, and the Wynburg Association in Maine.  He was just honored this summer at the “Lit in DC” awards as a Legend by the Don’t Mute DC go-go music coalition.