Please join the Housing and Community Development Committee for our November Brown Bag Lunch on the intersection of housing and services. We are featuring two speakers: Aviva Rothman-Shore, Community Life Program Director for The Community Builders and Ann Lentell, Director of Programs for Compass Working Capital. 
 
 

 
About the speakers
Aviva Rothman-Shore serves as community life program director for The Community Builders, Inc. in Boston, a position she has held since 2013. Aviva Rothman-Shore leads the implementation of Community Life at current family and senior sites as well as the strategy to expand the initiative across the TCB portfolio.  Rothman-Shore’s focus is on achieving operational excellence through partnerships and focusing on clear outcomes with metrics.
 
Previously, Rothman-Shore worked at the Conservation Law Foundation advocating for equitable transportation and smart growth throughout the Commonwealth. She has also worked at the Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston developing strategies to affect fair housing related policy at the administration, legislative and municipal levels and mobilizing local communities to educate and advocate on housing issues.

Rothman-Shore holds a master of business administration degree from The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Brown University.
 
Ann Lentell joined Compass Working Capital in February 2014, first serving as manager for the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program operated in partnership with Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership in its initial stages of development. In her current role as Director of Programs, Ann serves as the internal programmatic leader of the organization, overseeing all site-level performance across multiple FSS program sites and contract-based financial coaching programs throughout New England. She came to Compass following eight years in equity research covering the consumer sector, and was most recently an analyst at Surveyor Capital, a long-short beta-neutral hedge fund managed by Citadel LLC. Previously she covered equities at Jefferies & Co., Inc. and at Morningstar, Inc. in Chicago. Ann began her career as an analyst at The Nielsen Company. Ann’s volunteer experience includes tax return preparation for low-income families in Chicago, IDA consulting for women recently released from prison in St. Louis, and educational development for orphans in Russia, among others.
 
Ann received a B.A. in Social Thought & Analysis and Russian from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a CFA® charter holder.