United States

Jerry Maldonado

Program Officer New York

Jerry Maldonado helps manage the foundation's investments in affordable housing, regional economic development, and planning and land use innovation in metropolitan regions across the country. His grant making concentrates on integrated regional strategies for building stronger communities by improving access for low-income families to permanently affordable housing, reducing blight, improving transit choices and strengthening decent work opportunities.

Jerry joined the Ford Foundation in 2008 as a program manager overseeing the foundation’s post-Katrina Gulf Coast Transformation efforts.

Previously he was a visiting scholar at Cornell University's Global Labor Institute and co-director of the Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations program. Jerry has also served as a consultant with numerous international development and philanthropic institutions, including the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He has organized several international development conferences and symposia on issues ranging from globalization and inequality to human rights and economic development, and is a co-author of the 2005 report, "The Americas at a Crossroads: Putting Decent Work Back on the International Development Agenda."

Jerry has a master's degree in public policy and international affairs from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, where he concentrated in international relations with a minor in urban studies.