Heidi Hansan is serving a dual role at Neighborhood Impact Investment Fund as General Counsel and Loan Officer. Heidi previously was a long-time resident of Baltimore and spent the past 25 years practicing law. She began her career at Miles & Stockbridge in Baltimore working on asset based lending and other commercial finance transactions. For the past 15 plus years, Heidi has focused on community development finance, primarily representing CDFI lenders and specializing in tax credit finance, charter school lending and other impact investments such as “pay for success” transactions. Heidi prides herself on being collaborative and on her ability to handle complex, multi-tiered, multi-party financing structures. Prior to joining NIIF, she took a year-long sabbatical, and immediately prior to that she was a Principal at Miles & Stockbridge P.C. working in the Baltimore and Washington DC offices. Heidi has an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and obtained both her J.D. and Master of Theological Studies degree from Emory University.