Susan Brown, Board Member

Founder & CEO, Core SGB - Throughout a 43-year career in banking, Susan became known as a builder of programs and teams that successfully connect community and capital, creating the most successful most admired residential construction lending program in the United States. With CoreSGB, Susan consults for the GSEs, the FHA, local and regional governments and the White House, philanthropists, regional non-profits, think tanks, and financial institutions to solve the problems of financing and planning for novel, creative, and less expensive housing for a new American future.

Susan and her husband of 41 years raised their son on their certified sustainable timber farm west of Portland, Oregon. They have a shared passion for promoting critical thinking and a strong democracy.