Our Leadership Team

We are a group of individuals from diverse backgrounds, passionate about advancing place-based capitalism in the US

Team

DAMIEN DWIN

Director on the Board of Lafayette Square Foundation and Founder & CEO of Lafayette Square. Previously served as Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Brightwood Capital Advisors and is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees for Vera Institute of Justice.

JOSEPH JOHNSON

Chair, Treasury, and Secretary of the Board of Lafayette Square Foundation, and Head of Liabilities at Lafayette Square. Previously served as a Senior Vice President in the Capital Markets Group at Goldman Sachs & Co and is currently Chair of the Board for the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone. 

Antony Bugg-Levine

President of Lafayette Square Foundation and Managing Director for Government Partnerships at Lafayette Square. Antony previously spent a decade as CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund and currently serves on the Boards of the Global Impact Investing Network, which he cofounded in 2009, and of Community Connections for Youth.

Jack Moriarty

Executive Director of Lafayette Square Foundation. Jack previously founded Ownership America, a public policy organization focused on accelerating the growth of employee ownership. He is the Assistant Director of Policy Analysis at the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing and previously served on the Massachusetts Baby Bonds Task Force.

David A. Williams

Vice President at Lafayette Square Foundation and with the Worker Solutions team at Lafayette Square. He previously served as the Director of Policy Outreach at Opportunity Insights, a research and public policy lab based at Harvard University dedicated to using big data to improve upward mobility in America, and as a senior advisor to the Mayor of Detroit. He serves on the board of directors of Up for Growth and StriveTogether.