Kaley Pillinger is a JD/MBA candidate, commencing at Yale Law School, and then Stanford School of Business. She graduated from Yale University Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with a BA in Economics, with distinction, and a BA and MA in History, with distinction. At Yale, she was awarded the John Addison Porter Prize in American History for her senior essay on the use of green space during urban crises and Phi Alpha Theta history honors. She was editor-in-chief of the Yale Politic and served as a Dwight Hall Urban Fellow.

Kaley's career focuses on providing affordable housing and generating equitable urban ecosystems across both the public and private sectors. Since graduating from Yale, Kaley has worked in real estate finance and development, first at Blackstone, and subsequently for Fairstead, a national purpose-driven affordable housing developer. At Fairstead, Kaley's work included a $600M+ transaction to bring comprehensive renovations to an 87-building, 3400+-resident portfolio in Brooklyn, which won Fannie Mae's 2023 Deal of the Year.

She has worked for government offices and on campaigns on the local, state, and federal level - most recently as Get Out the Vote Director for Mark Levine's successful Manhattan Borough President race, managing a 1,000-volunteer operation to elect a candidate who now serves 1.7 million New Yorkers.

In graduate school and beyond, Kaley plans to continue work in the affordable housing field, using new skills from the JD/MBA to bridge business principles and legal structure in service of more efficient, environmentally sustainable, and human-oriented housing finance and development.

Kaley is from New York, NY. She is an avid runner and reader and enjoys all of the classic New York pastimes - walking too long, talking too fast, and eating too many bagels.