Joanna Donohoe

Joanna Donohoe has over 21 years of experience with banking, housing, and community development issues. She is the owner of Donohoe Consulting, a firm that provides facilitation, grant writing, program development, and other community development services to clients in underserved communities, particularly American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities. Previously, she served as the Director of Financial Education and Asset Building at Oweesta Corporation, a national nonprofit Native Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) intermediary that provides investment capital, technical assistance and training to help start other Native CDFI’s. She has also worked as a Community Builder Fellow in HUD’s Southwest Office of Native American Programs in New Mexico; an attorney at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington, DC; and a legislative representative for the Independent Bankers Association of America in Washington, DC. Joanna earned a B.A. in American Government from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA in 1989 and a Juris Doctor from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in 1995. She is married, has two children, and resides in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.