John W. Haines is the founder and executive director of the Community Investment Trust (CIT) (investcit.com). He has worked in commercial banking and economic development for First Interstate Bank in Portland, OR; Trenton Business Assistance Corporation in Trenton, NJ; Chemonics International in Prague, Czech Republic; and ShoreBank Pacific and Mercy Corps in Portland, OR. He has designed and built a loan guarantee program to accelerate environmental investment in the Czech Republic, in-prison and reentry programs in Oregon and Washington, refugee farming incubation programs in Oregon, and the CIT nationwide. In 2020, he published his first book, Never Leaving Laramie – Travels in a Restless World (Oregon State University Press). John lives in Portland, OR.
John W. Haines
Wealth Innovation Fellow,
Financial Security Program
John W. Haines is a Wealth Innovation Fellow with the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program.