As President and CEO, Lisa Rice directs the National Fair Housing Alliance’s (NFHA) mission to eliminate all forms of housing discrimination and ensure equitable housing opportunities for all people and communities. NFHA leads the fair housing movement and is the trade association for roughly 200 member organizations throughout the country.
Ms. Rice is a published author contributing to several books and journals addressing a range of fair housing issues including – Creating Justice In A Multiracial Democracy; The Fight for Fair Housing: Causes, Consequences, and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act; Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World; Discriminatory Effects of Credit Scoring on Communities of Color; and From Foreclosure to Fair Lending: Advocacy, Organizing, Occupancy, and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit.

She is one of the nation’s leading experts on fair housing, lending, and Responsible AI policies having played major roles in crafting sections of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, establishing the Office of Fair Lending within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and implementing other legislative and policy initiatives. She also helped lead the investigation and resolution of precedent- setting fair housing and lending cases securing remedies for millions of people as well as the elimination of systemic discriminatory practices.

She created the NFHA’s Tech Equity Initiative, now the Responsible AI Lab, helping to develop and advance research, frameworks, policies, products, and educational programming to promote solutions that ensure technological innovations benefit people and society. She also created NFHA’s Keys Unlock Dreams Initiative which has served as the catalyst for increasing homeownership opportunities for thousands of underserved people.

Ms. Rice serves on the Board of Directors of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Center for Democracy and Technology, Center for Responsible Lending, The Redress Movement, and FinRegLab. She is also a member of the JPMorgan Chase Consumer Advisory Council, Mortgage Bankers Association Consumer Advisory Council, Rocket Consumer Advisory Forum, and Berkeley’s The Terner Center Advisory Council. She has received numerous awards including the National Housing Conference’s Housing Visionary Award, was selected as one of TIME Magazine’s 2024 ‘Closers’ and named by Forbes as a 50 Over 50 Honoree.