As Bedrock’s first Chief Community Growth and Development Officer, Nadia Sesay leads a team focused on facilitating public-private partnerships while identifying and implementing new public financing initiative to develop strategic, meaningful connections within Detroit and Cleveland’s growing communities.

Nadia and her team have initiated some of Bedrock’s most significant partnerships, including Afro Nation and The Black Food and Wine Experience. In 2022, Nadia was named one of Michigan Chronicle’s Women of Excellence. Prior to joining Bedrock in 2020, Nadia served as Executive Director of San Francisco’s Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure, where she was responsible for the economic development of the new Transbay, Mission Bay, and Hunters Point Shipyard neighborhoods.

Earlier in her career, Nadia was Director of the San Francisco Controller’s Office of Public Finance. Before joining the city, Nadia worked in the Corporate Trust Department for Union Bank of California. In 2015, Nadia served on the State Treasurer’s Task Force on Bond Accountability, which prompted the state of California to adopt several of its recommended reforms. Nadia also received San Francisco’s Public Managerial Excellence Award in 2010 for exemplary leadership, fiscal ingenuity and vision.