Professional Services

In my "semi"-retirement I will continue offering services related to my nearly 40 years in public policy, primarily related to the needs of housing affordability in low- and moderate-income communities. Those credentials are available on LinkedIn, so I am taking the space here to link to particular projects that showcase a longer history and a broad range of interests, including volunteering in the civic space.

I am still most interested in writing/editing, research, and analysis of socioeconomic and community issues. I am particularly interested in short-term projects. My tagline is "no job is too small!" Fees are negotiable and fall within the guidelines of Partnership Capitalism that I am seeking to develop. If you have something in mind, please reach out: annette@ambourne.us.

As with everything else on this website, this page will continue to evolve.

EXAMPLES OF WORK:

HousingWorks RI's annual Housing Fact Book has been the primary publication that I have been responsible for since 2017.

In addition to the Housing Fact Book, I have also been the principal researcher of a variety of types of publications, including Issue Briefs, Infographics, and editor to a number of Scholar Series papers.

During my time with Grow Smart RI, I managed the Land Use Training Collaborative. While there are no online remainders of that work, I also got to collaborate again while at HousingWorks RI on special report on the potential for transit-oriented development in Rhode Island.

My career in Rhode Island started in 2004 at RIHousing, the state's housing and mortgage finance agency. The websites here show examples of the current information related to the work I did providing research and technical assistance to municipalities, writing federal reports, and managing federal grants on housing counseling and foreclosure prevention.

The Vermont Community Land Trust I worked for merged with another and is now the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. My work in Vermont was some of the most meaningful and personally impactful. To meet aspiring home buyers and walk them through the process was a responsibility I took to heart. Getting them mortgage-ready through financial literacy and homebuyer education sometimes took years.

My work in housing began at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, where I had the privilege of working with some of the nation's leading academic experts, who wrote and produced the State of the Nation's Housing each year. In my years there, I produced press releases, copyedited papers, and planned events.

As I joke, before turning to housing, my professional goal was world peace. That work was done through the Committee on International Security Studies (CISS) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA. The Academy was an early adopter of desktop publishing and I designed and copyedited a series of occasional papers and books on topics ranging from Middle East peace to environmental change as a source for conflict. At the time, the Academy (through CISS) was the US office for the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which went on to be awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.