Noreen is a Program and Policy Consultant on Green Building, Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Communities.  She has worked with a range of partners, from nonprofits to State agencies, helping develop strategies to promote green building and energy efficient practices and policies.  She has researched and written green building and energy efficiency primers for national funders, case studies on the benefits of green healthy housing, policy briefs on greening workforce development, and helped design the structure of a regional green and energy efficient retrofit program for affordable housing.

Previously she was the Director of State and Local Policy for Enterprise Community Partners, where she helped community development organizations increase their state and local level policy influence.  Noreen offers a variety of trainings, from nonprofit advocacy and lobbying to coalition building to green building, important to sustainable community development policy and practices.  She has worked for a nonprofit housing developer in Austin, TX and in the investments field. Noreen holds a Masters degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Urban Development and Political Science from the University of Rhode Island.

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