Archer Fellowship Program Alumni Profiles
Todd Hill
Spring 2010 Archer Fellow
Internship: The Financial Services Roundtable
Education
The University of Texas at Arlington
B.A. Political Science; December 2010
Career
Policy and Research Program Manager at the Urban Institute
Senior Director of Government Affairs at the Housing Policy Council - previous
Spring 2010 Archer Fellow
Internship: The Financial Services Roundtable
Education
The University of Texas at Arlington
B.A. Political Science; December 2010
Career
Policy and Research Program Manager at the Urban Institute
Senior Director of Government Affairs at the Housing Policy Council - previous
“I enjoyed the intellectual challenge that my fellow Archer Fellows brought to our semester. It made me want to be better and stronger in what I wanted to do and accomplish personally and professionally.
Q & A with Todd
Please tell us more about your current position.
I currently assist with leading and managing the Housing Finance Policy Center's programs and research efforts on a number of housing finance-related issues including: Mortgage servicing, Rental Housing Finance, Housing Finance Innovation and more.
Please tell us more about your Archer Fellowship Program internship.
At Financial Services Roundtable, I was the communications and government affairs intern. I felt it was a tremendous experience and was exposed to a lot of elements of political/financial policy and strategy. It was a great opportunity and the necessary foot in the door for me to return to Washington, D.C.
What has been your general career path?
Since graduation I've lived and worked in Washington, D.C., which has been a blessing to my professional career. I quickly worked up ladder at the Financial Services Roundtable and their Housing Policy Council in my six years there and recently moved to the Urban Institute to deepen my policy knowledge in the U.S. housing finance system.
How has your experience as an Archer Fellow influenced your career path and goals?
I feel the Archer Fellowship Program was everything I needed to get my foot in the door in D.C. and pursue a professional opportunity to achieve my professional goals.
What did you value the most about your Archer Fellowship Program experience?
I enjoyed the intellectual challenge that my fellow Archer Fellows brought to our semester. It made me want to be better and stronger in what I wanted to do and accomplish personally and professionally.
What do you value the most about being an alumnus?
I'm motivated to give back and pay it forward to a program that has given to me so much. As an alumnus of this program, I take that responsibility seriously and am committed to the challenge of motivating other alums to participate. To demonstrate my dedication to that responsibility, I had the honor of serving three years as President to the Archer Fellow Alumni Association after serving two years as its Fundraising Chair. In my service to AFAA, we instituted new programs to engage our alums such as social events and volunteer activities to demonstrate our commitment to the principles of the Archer Fellowship. We installed new fundraising programs to create ways for our alums to give back to a program that did so much for all of us, and to increase the amount of scholarships we offered to incoming Fellows with economic need. Most important to me, however, was giving back to our alums. We therefore created an annual give back program and the Friends of the Archer Center Trust. These programs allowed us to establish scholarships dedicated specifically for our alums, which when I took over as president to AFAA we offered none at all. We are now awarding on average $6,000 worth of scholarships to our alums for continuing education, graduate fellowships, and study abroad programs. Across the board under my tenure as president we increased alumni engagement, raised record amounts of money year-over-year to support the AFAA and the Center, and opened new alumni chapters across the country and internationally too. I feel as president that I led by example in executing my commitment to giving back to a program that did so much for me.
What is your favorite memory as an Archer Fellow?
It has to be the celebration of my 30th birthday, shortly after 2010, and after trekking to the Lincoln Memorial around midnight in ice on February 12 to sing Happy Birthday to Abe and to me since we share the same birthday. Truly memorable and something I always wanted to do!
Please tell us more about your current position.
I currently assist with leading and managing the Housing Finance Policy Center's programs and research efforts on a number of housing finance-related issues including: Mortgage servicing, Rental Housing Finance, Housing Finance Innovation and more.
Please tell us more about your Archer Fellowship Program internship.
At Financial Services Roundtable, I was the communications and government affairs intern. I felt it was a tremendous experience and was exposed to a lot of elements of political/financial policy and strategy. It was a great opportunity and the necessary foot in the door for me to return to Washington, D.C.
What has been your general career path?
Since graduation I've lived and worked in Washington, D.C., which has been a blessing to my professional career. I quickly worked up ladder at the Financial Services Roundtable and their Housing Policy Council in my six years there and recently moved to the Urban Institute to deepen my policy knowledge in the U.S. housing finance system.
How has your experience as an Archer Fellow influenced your career path and goals?
I feel the Archer Fellowship Program was everything I needed to get my foot in the door in D.C. and pursue a professional opportunity to achieve my professional goals.
What did you value the most about your Archer Fellowship Program experience?
I enjoyed the intellectual challenge that my fellow Archer Fellows brought to our semester. It made me want to be better and stronger in what I wanted to do and accomplish personally and professionally.
What do you value the most about being an alumnus?
I'm motivated to give back and pay it forward to a program that has given to me so much. As an alumnus of this program, I take that responsibility seriously and am committed to the challenge of motivating other alums to participate. To demonstrate my dedication to that responsibility, I had the honor of serving three years as President to the Archer Fellow Alumni Association after serving two years as its Fundraising Chair. In my service to AFAA, we instituted new programs to engage our alums such as social events and volunteer activities to demonstrate our commitment to the principles of the Archer Fellowship. We installed new fundraising programs to create ways for our alums to give back to a program that did so much for all of us, and to increase the amount of scholarships we offered to incoming Fellows with economic need. Most important to me, however, was giving back to our alums. We therefore created an annual give back program and the Friends of the Archer Center Trust. These programs allowed us to establish scholarships dedicated specifically for our alums, which when I took over as president to AFAA we offered none at all. We are now awarding on average $6,000 worth of scholarships to our alums for continuing education, graduate fellowships, and study abroad programs. Across the board under my tenure as president we increased alumni engagement, raised record amounts of money year-over-year to support the AFAA and the Center, and opened new alumni chapters across the country and internationally too. I feel as president that I led by example in executing my commitment to giving back to a program that did so much for me.
What is your favorite memory as an Archer Fellow?
It has to be the celebration of my 30th birthday, shortly after 2010, and after trekking to the Lincoln Memorial around midnight in ice on February 12 to sing Happy Birthday to Abe and to me since we share the same birthday. Truly memorable and something I always wanted to do!
