Georgia Murray

Biography: Georgia Murray led several businesses at Boston Financial, a real estate investment company, between 1973 and 2000, holding senior positions in Property Management, Asset Management and Investment and Acquistions. Georgia served as a director of the company from 1986 through its sale in 1999. Georgia was an active board member of Capital Crossing bank and its predecessor company since 1988, participating in the strategy which took the bank public in 1995, and its sale to Lehman Brothers in 2007. She became a founding board member of First Commons Bank, a de novo community bank located in Newton, MA in 2009, and served until 2013. In 2005, Georgia joined the Board of Franklin Street Properties, a publicly traded REIT with a national portfolio. She currently serves as the Lead Director, and is chair of the compensation committee and serves on the governance committee. Georgia has been the president of the Multifamily Housing Institute, a trustee of the Urban Land Institute, and a director of the National Multifamily Housing Council. She has spoken on national and local panels formed for the discussion of affordable housing. Georgia was a senior advisor to the Harvard Graduate School of Design on the Public Housing Operating Cost Study from 2000-2003, and has co-authored a case study on affordable housing finance which she co-teaches at the Tuck School and Harvard Business School. She was a member of the executive committee of the Commonwealth Housing Task Force. In 2007, she joined the board of the Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc., a non-profit housing group dedicated to preserving privately owned subsidized properties affordable for low income families. Georgia has served on several nonprofit boards including the Initiative for the Competitive Inner City and the Victim Rights Law Center. In 2009, Georgia was elected to the Board of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, the non-profit that was created to build a vibrant civic space in Boston on top of the “Big Dig”. In February of 2011, Georgia became chair of the Board, and guided it through its strategic planning process to create public art space in the City. She served in that position until December 31, 2015. Active in working to elect great women to political office since 2006, Georgia became a founding member of Women Invest To Elect in April 2015, and currently serves on its Executive Committee. The membership is dedicated to encouraging women to engage in advancing progressive causes by supporting great progressive candidates ( primarily other women ) who are standing for US Senate. In 2018, Georgia became Finance Chair of the Committee to Elect Ayanna Pressley to Congress.