May Lecture: Josh Stewart, Thinking Outside the Credit Box: Nonprofit Alternatives to Consumer & Community Lending

Josh Stewart, Nonprofit Alternatives in Banking and Housing
May 23
10:30-11:30 AM
Online via Zoom

Joshua Stewart is Director of Federal Policy & Advocacy at the Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises (FAHE). He helps local member groups have their voices heard in Washington, DC. He has more than ten years of experience analyzing and changing federal policy on poverty, housing issues, homelessness, and community/economic development.

Before joining FAHE in 2019, Joshua was with the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV) from 2013 to 2019. His portfolio there included congressional and governmental relations, policy development, and advocacy-focused communications. The common theme of his career has been the drive to educate: to inform Congress and other policymakers of the reality of the situation in the field, to insert experts from the community into national policy discussions, and to highlight to policymakers that there are bipartisan solutions to seemingly intractable social problems.

Prior to his time at NCHV, Joshua conducted historical research on social support structures, poverty, and homelessness in 19th and 20th-century New England. Other of his published works focus on veteran issues, memorialization, and social theory more broadly. He received his M.A. in Historical Archaeology from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2013 and his B.A. in Anthropology from Gettysburg College in 2011.

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