José A. Quiñonez | |
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Nationality | American |
Other names | José Quiñonez |
Education | University of California, Davis (B.A., 1994) |
Alma mater | Princeton University (M.A., 1998) |
Known for | Mission Asset Fund |
Notable work | Winning MacArthur Fellows Program |
José A. Quiñonez is an American financial-services innovator and winner of the MacArthur Fellows Program. He founded the San Francisco-based nonprofit Mission Asset Fund in 2007 in order to legitimize informal peer-to-peer lending networks in order to help marginalized groups build credit and serves as its CEO.[1][2]
Education
[edit]In 1994, he received a B.A. from the University of California, Davis and an M.P.A. in 1998 from Princeton University.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Doerer, Kristen (16 September 2016). "This innovative idea can 'unshackle' poor people from payday loans and bad credit scores". PBS. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ a b "José A. Quiñonez". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 17 February 2019.