Josh Silver is currently a consultant and Senior Fellow at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC). Silver’s thirty-year career at NCRC involved protecting and strengthening the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), fair lending laws, and data disclosure laws to hold financial institutions accountable for fair and responsible lending. Silver was also a development manager for two years at Manna, Inc., a local nonprofit housing developer based in the District of Columbia. Before NCRC and Manna, Silver was a research associate at the Urban Institute in the District of Columbia. He has a master’s in public affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor's from Columbia University in New York City. He splits his time in Morris, CT near a lake and in Bethesda, MD with his wife, Kathy Bakich, and cat, Daphne. His daughter, Michelle Silver, is currently pursuing a career in arts management and musical theater in London, United Kingdom.

​Below left - author a few years ago. Below right - author even younger with daughter as a pre-teen.