Carol Galante
Founder and Advisor, Terner Center for Housing Innovation , Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley
Carol Galante is the Founder and Advisor of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley and The Housing Lab, an accelerator for early-stage ventures with the potential to fundamentally improve the housing market and make it more affordable and fair. She is the Emeritus Faculty Director of the Terner Center and held the I. Donald Terner Professorship in Affordable Housing and Urban Policy at UC Berkeley between 2015-2021.
Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Carol served in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing Programs. Prior to her appointment at HUD, she served for over ten years as President and CEO of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, the largest non-profit developer of affordable, mixed-income and mixed-use developments in California.
Carol also chairs the Board of Terner Housing Innovation Labs, serves on the Board of The Community Builders, and is an advisor to Factory OS.