LISA BOULDIN-CARTER
President
BorrowSmart Public Education Foundation

Lisa Bouldin-Carter is president of BorrowSmart Public Education Foundation. She is deeply involved with national issues concerning home ownership and consumers accessing the equity in their homes to finance personal or professional aspirations. Bouldin-Carter helps set the public policy housing agenda in collaboration with banking and lending institutions across the United States. In this national leadership position, she has a major impact on how the industry educates homeowners about accessing the equity in their homes.

Bouldin-Carter leads the Cincinnati-based national Foundation, which works through credit and housing counselors nationwide to educate homeowners about all aspects of home equity borrowing – budgeting, assessing financial need, etc. Her life-long advocacy for home ownership and her unwavering commitment and support of women and their families contributed to her selection and successful rise to a national leadership position. Since her appointment in 2003, Bouldin-Carter has worked to assure families are financially literate about using the equity in their homes. She is focused on closing the inequities that exist with older homeowners, African Americans and other communities of color and lower income individuals and families.

She is actively engaged in a multi-million dollar campaign to raise dollars to fund BorrowSmart’s programming and educational materials. Bouldin-Carter is setting a new strategic direction for her organization that includes increasing BorrowSmart’s profile nationally.

Director, Greater Cincinnati Mortgage Counseling Services

Prior to her appointment as president of BorrowSmart, Bouldin-Carter served GCMCS for 14 years. Her community initiatives resulted in 2,000 new homeowners. She has a long-standing commitment to first generation low-to-moderate income and single head-of-household homeownership.

Community Involvement

Bouldin-Carter’s passion is to help homeowners and first-time homeowners educate themselves so they are financially literate and economically sound. She has conducted housing and accessing home equity panel discussions and seminars for the Congressional Black Caucus and the National Housing Council. She is an alumna of the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Cincinnati Program, the Urban League of Greater Cincinnati Leadership Development Program and acknowledged as a 2005 Who’s Who in Black Cincinnati.

Education

Educated at Central State University and the University of Akron, Bouldin-Carter has received awards recognizing her many contributions, including the Excellence in Training Award from the National Housing Council, NAACP Wright Overstreet Award, recipient of the Delta Sigma Theta 2004 Education Development award and received an Applause! ImageMakers nomination. She serves on the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce Board, the NAACP – Cincinnati Chapter Housing Committee and the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Leadership Cincinnati Housing Committee.

Personal

Bouldin-Carter is the proud parent of two adult children, Brooke and Brandon. Her children are a reflection of her commitment and involvement in the global community. She has instilled in them the need to give back and share their talents with those who are less fortunate. Brooke is pursuing a MSW at the University of Cincinnati and Brandon is completing a B. S. in Education at Florida A&M University.