Nahuel Fefer

Nahuel S. Fefer serves as Executive Director of the City of St. Louis Community Development Administration (CDA), where he leads a team of forty professionals managing over $400 million in federal grant funds. Under his leadership, CDA has tripled investments since 2022, expanding and diversifying the city’s affordable housing production pipeline and creating new programs to support early childcare centers, health clinics, artists, parks and community gardens. Mr. Fefer previously served as Director of Policy for Mayor Tishaura Jones, and as a Special Assistant to Mayor Slay. In these roles he successfully drafted and passed numerous budget, tax, charter, and other bills. Mr. Fefer is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and New York University School of Law, where he focused his studies on tax, constitutional and local government law. After law school, Mr. Fefer spent a year as a Justice Catalyst Fellow with ArchCity Defenders, a non-profit law firm dedicated to fighting the criminalization of poverty in St. Louis. Mr. Fefer was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, grew up outside of Boston, and resides in Tower Grove South.”