Dana Bourland is committed to solving our housing and climate crises in ways that advance racial, economic, and environmental justice. Most recently Dana led the creation of the environment program at The JPB Foundation, which is one of the largest private foundations in the US where she continues to work today. Formerly Dana was vice president of Green Initiatives for Enterprise Community Partners, a national affordable housing intermediary, where she developed and oversaw all aspects of the award-winning Green Communities program, including the creation of the Green Communities Criteria and Enterprise's Multifamily Retrofit Program.
A returned Peace Corps volunteer, Dana Bourland, AICP, is a graduate of Harvard University's Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate and holds a master of planning degree from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Dana was named one of Fast Company magazine's Most Influential Women Activists in Technology and she was named one of Affordable Housing Finance's Young Leaders.