Stephan Fairfield

Full-time 2003-2004

Stephan Fairfield is the CEO of Covenant Community Capital, which provides financial products and development services to low income residents of Houston, Texas. He was previously the founding director of the Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation, Houston’s leading CDC. Over his twelve years at Fifth Ward the organization built over 700 housing units and several small retail centers, created nearly 600 jobs, successfully advocated for 500 blocks of street paving, 13 miles of sidewalks and generally set one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods on the path to stability. As a Fellow, Stephan will seek to broaden his knowledge of land use planning and design at Harvard in order to further contribute to the improvement of his own and other neighborhoods in Houston and throughout Texas.