Justin Maxson

Biography

Justin Maxson is Executive Director of Build-US, a pooled fund working to grow a stronger economy, thriving democracy and cleaner energy future in the US by leveraging historic public investment. Prior to joining BuildUS, Justin Maxson served as a senior advisor at the Amalgamated Foundation, where he worked helping disadvantaged communities access federal resources. Before that, he served in the Biden administration as Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at USDA, where he helped manage the only federal agency with the explicit responsibility for rural development. Formerly, he served as the chief executive officer of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation supporting economic and racial justice in the US South and spent more than a decade as the president of the Mountain Association, a community development financial institution advancing economic and sustainable development opportunities in Central Appalachia.