Lee Davenport

Lee Davenport serves as Program Director of National Financial Partnerships at One Economy Corporation, building programs focused on financial management and asset building initiatives. Lee is directing the creation of an online financial coach with chat and phone based credit counseling and debt management components. As Project Manager for the E*TRADE funded Earned Income Tax Credit initiative, he developed and scaled partnerships with municipal tax coalitions to create free online self-prepared tax filing programs in eight urban and rural markets. The program returned over $5 million to 3,463 One Economy clients in 2007, more than double previous year’s results.

Prior to this work, Lee served as Assistant Director of Income Policy at FoodChange in New York City, managing the nation’s largest free low-income tax preparation network, which served more than 44,000 clients annually. He also served as Assistant Director, Food Access Program, directing teams of community advocates enrolling thousands of households in food stamps and other income-based nutritional programs. Lee completed his bachelor’s degree at The University of Texas at Austin and a Masters of Science in Urban Policy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.