Our Team

Dr. Hampton leads the LISC Indianapolis program, overseeing program development, fundraising, and coordination with real estate development lending. He focuses on locally designed efforts to address racial injustice, invest in resilient communities and fuel inclusive economic growth.

Brandon leads LISC's education program and Family Income and Wealth Building. He supports the leadership, management, and expansion of the team’s Bridges to Career Opportunities program. Brandon also provides financial and technical assistance to our neighborhood partner organizations and stregthen partnerships among community-based organizations, anchor institutions and the other corporate, civic, and public sector organizations. 

Megan oversees the annual communications strategy and implementation for LISC Indianapolis and its programs including media relations, website and newsletter development, social media marketing, media buying, graphic design, social media strategy, fundraising and event planning for the annual Love Thy Neighborhood and Building Bridges Awards.

Kelsi provides leadership, systems change advocacy, community engagement, and strategy development and implementation leadership for LISC Indianapolis’ Health Equitynportfolio, including the Equitable Food Access Initiative, Diabetes Impact Project (DIP-IN), LISC/NFL Foundation Grassroots Program, Community Safety and Justice, Creative Placemaking, and Mental Health programs.

Carlie oversees the continuing evolution and implementation of Indianapolis' signature placemaking efforts: Quality-of-Life neighborhoods and the Great Places initiative. She is the LISC lead to the Cultivating Communities effort, a collaboration with faith based Englewood CDC to leverage the social capital of faith communities. She engages a broad array of stakeholders in implementing neighborhood plans, managing capacity building and coordinating our collective impact efforts. 

Claudia leads our small business and entrepreneurship work in the community, including the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready program, Microenterprise Navigator + Technical Assistance Initiative, business support organization (BSO) capacity building, Spanish workshop series (with partners), and developing technical assistance trainings. 

Kelly leads LISC Indianapolis’ Verizon Small Business Digital Ready and Capacity Building for Entrepreneurial Support and BDOs programs. In addition, she assists with the Microenterprise Navigator Program.

Shawn worked as the Assistant Program and Communications Officer for LISC Indianapolis for more than 20 years. In her new role, she works closely with the team to develop and enhance the daily administrative and operational systems for the Indianapolis office. This includes financial and contract management, information and client management, office logistics and hospitality, and scheduling support.

Ephraim provides technical assistance to organizations, monitoring and implementation of grants, and administrative support to program staff on key health equity initiatives, with a particular focus on food systems development.

Maria helps in successfully implementing a holistic, neighborhood-driven approach to community transformation that ensures both people and places prosper. Her portfolio of work includes the Bridges to Career Opportunities Network, the Healthy Bridges to Careers in Tech Program, Equitable Food Access Initiative, and other emerging opportunities to strengthen the integrations between workforce and health equity.