Margaret Shaw serves as the Deputy Director of the City of Austin’s Neighborhood Housing and Community Development Department (NHCDD), which oversees $22 million in Federal and local funds to create homes and jobs for disadvantaged residents. She began her career in Washington, D.C., spending seven years at the White House Office of Management and Budget providing oversight to five Cabinet departments and dozens of agencies with budgets totaling more than $80 billion. As an aide to HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros for two years, she managed the development of the $25 billion HUD budget and assisted with national housing policy initiatives. She relocated to Austin, where she directed planning and budgeting for NHCDD and built partnerships with community and business leaders to increase housing choice. She then joined an affordable housing development firm, where she helped develop more than 1,000 units of affordable and market-rate apartments and condominiums in six Texas cities. Shaw graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and earned a master's in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin.