Michael A. Stegman
Director, Policy & Housing

Michael A. Stegman is the Director of Policy and Housing for U.S. Programs. He serves as the Foundation's lead observer of domestic policy issues, working to translate policy trends and position program strategies in affordable housing, fiscal sustainability, aging society, and tools to strengthen evidence-informed policymaking across a wide range of human services areas; all within the larger context of local, state and national policy developments.

Stegman is a Visiting Professor at the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy, a former member of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank Community Development Advisory Council and Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. He has served on several national boards, including the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and One Economy Corporation. Prior to joining the Foundation he was the MacRae Professor of Public Policy, Planning, and Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chairman of the Department of Public Policy and founding director of the Center for Community Capitalism. In addition, he has been a consultant to the Fannie Mae Foundation, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Treasury Department, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the U.S. General Accounting Office. During his tenure as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at HUD, Stegman was named one of Washington's 100 most influential decision makers by the National Journal. Stegman has written extensively on housing and urban policy, community development, financial services for the poor, and asset development policies. While at HUD, he was founding editor of two ongoing publications: Cityscape, a journal of urban policy research, and the quarterly, U.S. Housing Market Conditions.

Stegman received his BA from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and his

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Ianna Kachoris
Program Officer

Email: ikachori at macfound dot org

Ianna Kachoris is a Program Officer for Housing in U.S. Programs. She has extensive experience in housing and policy, community development, and the critical role that affordable housing plays in affecting economic opportunity. In her most recent role as project manager of The Pew Charitable Trust’s Economic Mobility Project, she was responsible for directing the programmatic aspects of the project, overseeing the research agenda, and guiding outreach and policy strategy.
 
Prior to joining Pew, Kachoris served as Senior Policy Advisor and Director of Economic Development to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and coordinated the senator’s agenda to help create and retain economic opportunities in Massachusetts. She advised Kennedy on issues ranging from housing and community development to telecommunications, research and development, international trade and economic policy, and was his liaison to the Joint Economic Committee of the House and Senate.

Previously, Kachoris was manager of Midwest Regional Initiatives for the Fannie Mae Foundation and worked at the Metropolitan Planning Council in Chicago. She began her career as an analyst with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Evaluation and Inspections conducting program evaluations of federal programs including TANF, Head Start, Medicaid, and Medicare.

Kachoris received a Masters in Public Policy from the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and a BA in Sociology from Emory University.

Mijo Vodopic
Program Officer

Email: mvodopic at macfound dot org

Mijo Vodopic is a Program Officer for Housing in U.S. Programs. He came to the Foundation from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, where he was a senior analyst on the Financial Markets and Community Investment team. He led evaluations of small business loans to assess the performance of the Small Business Administration, analyzed the impact of the Basel II Accord on global and domestic competition in banking, and reviewed the uses and effects of eminent domain actions on property owners and communities. Previously, he was director of property and asset management at Heartland Housing Incorporated in Chicago, where he managed a portfolio of eight affordable rental properties comprising 700 units and participated in developing tenant selection and management plans for several public housing sites in Chicago being redeveloped through the federal HOPE VI program effort to revitalize severely distressed public housing communities. Previously, Vodopic worked for the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness, advocating on behalf of homeless families during a period of welfare reform. In his current role, he works to preserve affordable rental housing by supporting local, state, and federal policy initiatives, enhancing the field of nonprofit housing entrepreneurs, and communicating the importance of rental housing in the economy.

Mijo graduated magna cum laude from Loyola University and received his Masters degree in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago.