Sierra Stoney is Partner’s manager for community development impact and research. She draws on her background in research and practice to demonstrate how PCG’s lending and advocacy transform communities. Sierra tells PCG’s story through rigorous impact measurement and compelling narratives on what investment has meant to borrowers and their beneficiaries.

Sierra brings expertise as a community development researcher focused on equitable place-based initiatives, housing, community development, and public finance. Most recently, she was a research analyst on the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's Regional and Community Analysis team, where she worked with community development practitioners and CDFIs. Before that, she was at the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, where she focused on evidence-based policy research related to fair and affordable housing, mission-driven real estate investment, environmental justice, and employment. She has also worked as a practitioner—directing a statewide affordable housing pilot program in Indiana—and served in local government as the demographer for the City of Alexandria (Virginia).

Sierra holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Mary Washington, an M.A. in applied economics from Georgetown University, and an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago Harris School. She is currently working towards her PhD in public policy and public administration at George Washington University's Trachtenberg School, studying inclusive place-based community development.