Kavya has dedicated her career to creating more equitable communities. She is co-founder and COO of Trust Neighborhoods, a national nonprofit that helps neighborhoods worried about gentrification own their own mixed-income rental housing. Trust Neighborhoods has helped set-up mixed-income neighborhood trusts, or MINTs, in 5 neighborhoods across the country, which together own 250+ housing units. Prior to Trust Neighborhoods, she helped young people get more civically active through helping start The Obama Foundation and supported access to economic opportunity through her policy work at the Obama White House. She started her career at McKinsey and Company, focused on local and state economic development. She has lived in a total of eight cities across the country, allowing her to learn about a diversity of neighborhoods. She has a BA in economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.