Meet Nicole Williams, LISC LA's Newest Local Advisory Committee (LAC) Member
12.05.2022
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Nicole Williams is a Senior Vice President and Head of Non-Profit Banking for Banc of California. In this role, she is tasked with building a business focused on community development non-profits and CDFI entities in California. Before joining Banc of California in 2022, Nicole spent nine years at J.P.Morgan, leading various lines of business within the bank. During her tenure, she served as Executive Director on the Intermediaries Lending team in Commercial Bank, taking an intentional approach to lending to the top CDFIs across the country – ensuring responsible lending to their end borrowers.
Nicole spent five years in J.P. Morgan's Government Banking group, providing treasury and credit solutions to municipal clients in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to her banking responsibilities, Nicole served as the National Lead for Government Banking Associates, advancing the development of junior talent in J.P. Morgan's government banking business across the U.S.
Before joining J.P. Morgan in 2013, Nicole served as Senior Director of Economic Development for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, providing oversight of 13 departments that generated over $12 billion in annual revenues and represented the economic engine of the City.
Nicole holds a Master of Business Administration from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She is an alumna of the Los Angeles African American Women in Public Policy Leadership Institute. She also served as an Executive Council Board Member for the Northern California Chapter of Women in Public Finance from 2017 –2019. She is currently the Board Treasurer for the Imagine Youth Foundation of Los Angeles and for the New Village Academy for Girls.
Nicole recently shared her thoughts on her new position as a LISC LA LAC member and what she sees in the organization’s future:
"I had the pleasure of working with LISC national as their Bank Relationship Manager in 2020 and 2021 and I led my former institution's participation in the Entrepreneurs of Color Loan Fund, managed by LISC Fund Management. Through these experiences, I came to respect and admire the LISC mission and team. Working with LISC locally is my way of continuing the effort with a focus on the great City of Los Angeles.
I joined the LAC to be amongst talented thought leaders in community development who want to have an outsized impact in LA. The issues before our City are significant - particularly the dearth of affordable housing and widespread homelessness. The LAC offers a platform for supporting the LISC LA team in thinking through these issues and developing solutions.
I would like to see the LAC continue to support the LISC LA staff with great ideas and thought leadership on key issues. We will continue to make a difference and leave our mark in LA through collaboration."
