 Amber Seely is currently
the Development Finance Coordinator with Volunteers of America in
New Orleans developing projects for the organization’s new “Workforce
Housing” initiative, creating affordable rental housing for
working households in key service sectors in emerging urban neighborhoods
that are proximate to jobs and employment opportunities, have good
access to basic commercial services and are well-served by public
transportation.
Ms. Seely comes to the Rockefeller Foundation Redevelopment Fellowship
from the Office of Regional and Economic Development within the
Real Estate Department of the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey where she worked on a variety of commercial and industrial
real estate development projects and drafted the organization’s
application for an allocation of New Market Tax Credits.
Ms. Seely graduated in May 2007 with a M.S. in Urban Policy from
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. At Milano,
Ms. Seely was a Community Development Finance Lab Fellow where she
worked on a variety of consulting projects including a viability
analysis of a commercial real-estate rehabilitation for the New
York Urban League and an analysis of access to small business capital
in low and moderate income areas of New York City for the NYC Economic
Development Corporation. Ms. Seely was also on the New School team
whose mixed-use development proposal in West Harlem for the non-profit
organization The Fortune Society won the JP Morgan Chase Community
Development Competition in 2006. Ms. Seely recently presented this
winning proposal at the “Business As An Agent of World Benefit”
conference sponsored by Case Western Reserve University and the
United Nations Global Compact.
Prior to graduate school, Ms. Seely was a project coordinator at
Deloitte and Touche then helped start and run an online retail business
leading the purchasing and strategic development departments. She
received her B.A. in International Affairs from Gordon College.
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