On the Move - April 29, 2019

NACo STAFF

• Jenny Hilscher has joined NACo as executive assistant to the CEO, where she will also serve as the liaison for the NACo Board of Directors and Executive Committee. She previously worked for the National Association of Broadcasters and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Southern California.

• Alejandra Montoya-Boyer has joined NACo as associate program director for community and economic development. She will be responsible for the execution of a new grant on county leadership in advancing economic opportunity funded by the Gates Foundation, where she worked as a program officer. She also worked at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies as a NextGen Policy Leader at Google was a graduate fellow at the Center for American Progress.  She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from New York University and master’s degrees from Columbia University and Universidad de Alcala in Spain.

• Warren Buffington is NACo’s new database administrator, responsible for the performance, integrity and security of NACo’s data.  Prior to joining NACo, he worked on several projects in the area of database application development using SQL and PL/SQL to solve real-life data management problems.  He also worked on a project to develop and design a database using Oracle DBMS.  Warren earned a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from the University of Maryland. 

• Director of Program Strategy Jay Kairam spoke April 3 to the Retail Opportunity Network in Baltimore.

• Associate Legislative Director Daria Daniel spoke about urban development April 16 to the International Economic Development Council Conference in Washington, D.C.

• Associate Legislative Director Jonathan Shuffield gave a federal update April 18 to the County Supervisors of Arizona Board meeting.