Sara Brown has worked in municipal finance since 1997, focusing on the financing tools that cities, counties and special districts use to fund vital infrastructure projects associated with new development and community redevelopment. Those tools include land-secured bonds, such as Hawaii’s community facilities district special tax revenue bonds, and tax increment debt. Over the past 25 years at Stifel, her experience in these two areas amounts to more than 400 bond issues totaling over $9 billion. In Hawaii, she has worked on all four of the State’s community facilities district bonds. Ms. Brown is the head of Stifel’s California Public Finance practice. Ms. Brown graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Applied Statistics. She received a master’s degree in Public Sector Financial Management from the University of Maryland.