Lorna Bourg is President/Executive Director of the Southern Mutual Help Association (SMHA).

She graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy and received a Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, or UL Lafayette, is a coeducational, public research university located in Lafayette, Louisiana, in the heart of Acadiana...

, from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

’s JFK School of Government in the Sr. Executive's Program, and studied at University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...

's Center for Popular Economics, and the University of Wisconsin's Extension Program Community Development.

She designed and implemented the Building Rural Communities Program for Economic Development. She designed, and implemented a loan fund for low-income rural homeowners. In 1997, she helped design and implement a pilot programs of the Rural Home Loan Partnership.

External links

• SMHA blog
• "COMMUNITY INVESTMENT", PBS, December 20, 2004
• "Trying to (Re)build a Better South", Foundation News & Commentary, March/April 2006
• “KATRINA COTTAGE:”, Vermilion Faith Community of Care