Lucy Arellano Baglieri

Chief Strategy Officer, Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF)

Mrs. Arellano Baglieri has 15 years of community development management and strategy experience with a focus on social justice and racial equity. At LIIF, Lucy leads organizational strategy, racial equity, and external affairs. Prior to LIIF, she was Chief Strategy Officer for the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), where she led the organization’s regional and national initiatives. Her work draws on communities’ strengths to respond to economic inequity by employing a holistic approach to wealth, place, and power building. This approach includes direct services, affordable real estate development and preservation, policy and advocacy, equitable CDFI lending, and collective impact networks. She has also led organizational racial equity, strategy, and professional development initiatives. Mrs. Arellano Baglieri is nationally recognized for her leadership in community and organizational capacity building by a range of groups, including the Aspen Institute, Prosperity Now, UnidosUS, and NALCAB. She is an immigrant from Mexico and is natively bilingual in Spanish. Mrs. Arellano Baglieri holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington. She is based in San Francisco.