Robin Hacke

Bio

Robin Hacke is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Community Investment (CCI, www.centerforcommunityinvestment.org), which works to ensure that all communities, especially those that have suffered from policies that left them economically and socially isolated, can unlock the capital they need to thrive. Through leadership development programs, cohorts of place-based teams, partnerships, a network of program alumni, and thought leadership, CCI has supported communities across the US to create equitable, effective investment systems that respond to community priorities.

Robin co-founded CCI and served as Executive Director from 2017-2024. Since entering the field of community investment in 2007, Robin has raised and managed impact investment funds as Director of Capital Innovation at the philanthropic collaborative Living Cities; served as a Senior Fellow at the Kresge Foundation, where she researched and incubated a capital absorption practice to help local leaders strengthen their community investment ecosystems; and advised foundations and hospitals on how they can use investment to help overcome systemic racism and achieve greater equity and opportunity in their communities.

Robin brings three decades of investment and strategy experience to community investment, having previously served as a venture capitalist, strategy consultant, and public finance banker. She is a frequent speaker and writer on how to deepen the scale and impact of community investment and has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a member of the Steering Committee for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Working Cities Challenge. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Government magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College.