Laura Arce, a Terner Center Policy Fellow, is Senior Vice President for Economic Initiatives at UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization.  

Laura is the architect of the Home Ownership Means Equity (HOME) initiative, a multi-year campaign to add four million new Latino homeowners this decade.  The HOME initiative leverages policy, research, communications, and community investments to expand homeownership opportunities for first-time and first-generation homebuyers. Laura is also the co-lead of the UnidosUS Economic Prosperity Agenda, a values-based framework for real prosperity through affordable housing, good jobs, thriving businesses, and strong families.

Laura has held senior positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including at Wells Fargo & Co., the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), and on Capitol Hill. 

Laura is on the boards of the Center for Responsible Lending, the National Housing Conference, and ROC USA.  She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and holds a master’s degree in urban planning from Rutgers University.