As Director of Impact Finance, Trent leads projects helping partners and clients to design innovative solutions for steering capital toward social and environmental impact. Previously, he was a Director of Impact Strategy supporting organizations in developing stakeholder-driven strategies to grow and measure their impact.

Before joining the Institute, Trent served as Director of Policy & Innovation at the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, where he provided technical assistance to partnerships between health plans and community organizations to address social determinants of health. His work led to the expansion of a home-based asthma program for over 850 families in New York City, a first-of-its-kind transaction that leveraged private investment repaid through Medicaid savings.

His entire career has maintained a focus on impact—he has also taught middle school Spanish, consulted for social enterprises in the US, Mexico, and India, and led a field experiment on ethnic identification in South Africa.

Trent holds an MBA from Georgetown McDonough School of Business, where he was a Global Social Enterprise and Development Fellow, and a BA in International Relations from Brigham Young University.