Felipe M. Floresca
Felipe Floresca is joining the LDRF team on loan as a Senior Consultant courtesy of Living Cities. LDRF is honored and privileged that the Living Cities supports LDRF by enabling us to have the time, talent and expertise of Felipe to further LDRF's mission.
Felipe M. Floresca serves as a Senior Consultant with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Charles D. Smith, Jr. Foundation. He serves as an at-large consultant with the National Basketball Association Players Association.
Felipe served the Clinton Administration as Chief of Staff for Policy at the United States Department of Labor and Senior Advisor at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. He was a member of several White House Domestic Policy Council working groups.
Felipe formerly held the position of Executive Director of the San Francisco Housing Authority. He has served Senator Ted Kennedy, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo in various policy and legislative posts in the area of housing and community development. He has been a registered lobbyist representing the Whitman Corporation and the Business Roundtable.
He received his formal education at Brown University, The Harvard/Antioch Policy Center and Fordham University. He received past fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation.
He was a member of the visiting faculty at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University and served as a visiting instructor at Brown University.
Felipe has served on several boards including The Community Fellows of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Educational Testing Service, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation and Project Avary. He presently serves as a member of the San Francisco-Manila Sister City Committee and trustee of the National Association of Filipino-American Associations.
Felipe hails from Spanish Harlem in New York City.