Christina Travers
Laying the Cash Tracks for Community Impact
LISC CFO Christina Travers is among the impact investing leaders who contributed commentaries to a new book, The Social Justice Investor, and joined a panel discussion at today’s book launch. In her essay, “Laying the Cash Tracks,” (reprinted here) she explains the evolution of LISC’s capital markets experience—noting how discouraging Wall Street conversations eventually led to transformative, community-focused investments.
In an Inflationary Environment, Are Bond Buyers Still Interested in CDFIs?
In a new ImpactAlpha blog, Christina Travers and Kathleen Keefe discuss LISC’s recent experience in the capital markets and what it might signal about investor engagement with CDFIs. “Is this environment forcing investors to step back from community development finance? Or, are they willing to respond with “catalytic capital” that specifically meets this moment?”
Lessons Learned from a $100 Million Milestone
Christina Travers and Anna Smukowski reflect on the experience of LISC's innovative Impact Notes program and what it says about how CDFIs can communicate opportunity and impact to attract capital to high-impact work.
“Being Part of the Momentum”: Q+A with Christina Travers, LISC’s New CFO
This week, Christina Travers, LISC’s former SVP of finance, returns to the organization as chief financial officer. In the two and a half years since she left, she has served as VP for Finance and Capital Strategies at the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF), and more recently as CFO at Working Solutions CDFI, a nonprofit microlender based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We sat down with Christina to hear about her vision for her new role, the innovations in raising impact capital that inspire her, and how a would-be marine biologist ended up in the world of community development finance.
Christina Travers is Named LISC CFO
LISC has named Christina Travers, a top voice in community development finance, as its new CFO. She spent more than a decade at LISC earlier in her career helping design innovative financial management and investment strategies. She returns on November 1 to replace CFO Michael Hearne, who is retiring this fall.