Tammy Halevy is Executive Director of Reimagine Main Street, a project of the Public Private Strategies Institute, and is a Senior Advisor at Public Private Strategies. Reimagine Main Street is an initiative focused on accelerating growth and opportunities for small businesses and the people they employ on MLK Boulevards, Chinatowns, Cesar Chavez Ways and Main Streets across the country. Reimagine Main Street is built around a cross-sector multi-stakeholder network, data driven insights, and engagement with business owners, business leaders, investors, and policymakers.

Tammy brings a rare combination of experience, skills and passion to this work. For more than twenty years, she has worked across Fortune 100 companies, small nonprofit organizations, philanthropy and government. Tammy spent nearly a decade as the Senior Vice President of New Initiatives at a national nonprofit organization focused on creating economic opportunity for underserved entrepreneurs. In this role, she published award-winning research reports, formed groundbreaking cross-sectoral partnerships, and launched a new company with $1M in seed money from a competitive Innovation Challenge sponsored by the US Treasury’s CDFI Fund. Tammy was also a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where as part of the corporate finance and strategy practices, she led client engagements and research projects primarily focused on reaching new markets and structuring complex partnerships. Early in her career she also held positions in the US House of Representatives, The Overseas Development Council, and Kroll Associates.

Tammy serves on the Board of 1863 Ventures, a Washington, DC-based accelerator for new majority entrepreneurs and the Advisory Board of Camino Financial, a fintech CDFI small business lender. 

She is a proud resident of the District of Columbia but still considers Texas as home.