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About the Author
Eugene H. Clark-Herrera is Chair of Orrick’s Charter School Finance Group, and
has served as bond counsel for public charter schools across the country in debt
financing transactions for over ten years. Eugene pioneered capital markets access
for California public charter schools, structured the largest multi-campus singleissuer
public charter school financing to date, and has advised governmental issuers,
foundations, advocacy groups and policy makers in the development and expansion
of public charter school access to tax-advantaged financing. He is a graduate of
Stanford Law School and an alumnus of the Teach for America Corps. He also
founded and maintains an arts-based youth development organization in the
San Francisco Bay Area (see www.muralmusicarts.org).
Members of Orrick’s Charter School Finance Group are shown on the contact
list on the inside of the back cover of this booklet.
in collaboration with
Maria C. Sazon is the Senior Director for Facilities Initiatives at the National Alliance
for Public Charter Schools. Maria is a former senior municipal bond research analyst
at New York City based AllianceBernstein where she analyzed the credit risks of
investing in public charter school and other education-related bonds. Previously,
Maria was a credit analyst at a bond insurance company where she specialized in taxbacked
and revenue bond credits. She also worked as a credit and loan officer to nonprofit
organizations and municipalities in two commercial banks. Maria is the author
of, Making Room for New Public Schools: How Innovative School Districts are Learning
to Share Public Education Facilities with Charter Schools, published by NAPCS in 2011.
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