About Nancy Biberman

Nancy Biberman, Esq. has long been working to make the Bronx a more beautiful, more prosperous place. As the Founder and President of the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCo), Nancy foresaw the profound community-wide economic and educational opportunities that would result from transforming the abandoned Morrisania Hospital complex into the award-winning, architecturally stunning Urban Horizons Economic Development Center.    Founded in 1991, WHEDCo realizes Nancy’s vision of providing low-income women and families with both affordable homes and high quality solutions to the obstacles they face.

As a practicing legal services attorney and Director of the East Side SRO Law Project, Nancy's early career focused on housing and domestic violence issues affecting low-income families. After completing a Revson Fellowship at the Columbia University School of Architecture and Planning, she developed the West End Intergenerational Residence, an award-winning program that integrates homeless adults with young families. Nancy began restoring the Bronx in the late ‘80s, when she led an organization that redeveloped 23 abandoned buildings into over 700 affordable apartments. She was acutely aware, however, that housing alone was not going to lift families out of poverty, especially in a borough as devastated as the Bronx.

Nancy is a graduate of Barnard College and Rutgers Law School, has taught at NYU and CUNY, and was a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a Johnson Fellow at the Fannie Mae Foundation. She served as a Trustee of the Bronx Museum of the Arts for over 5 years and currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Freelancer's Union and the Hostos Community College Foundation.