
Prior to her appointment at HUD, Galante was president and chief executive of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, the largest non-profit developer of affordable, mixed-income and mixed-use developments in California. She has also worked for the cities of Santa Barbara, Philadelphia and Richmond, California, in city planning and community economic development.
Galante is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. She holds a master of city planning degree from the University of California, Berkeley.


