Ines Polonius

Ines Polonius, Chief Executive Officer of Communities Unlimited, joined the organization in 2014 and works out of the Fayetteville, Arkansas, office. She has been active in national and international economic development for more than 30 years and has dedicated her career to accelerating community economic development in persistently poor, rural places in the South. She leads Communities Unlimited, a CDFI dedicated to moving rural and under-resource communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama toward prosperity. She received a master of business administration degree and a master of economics degree from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, along with a certificate in Public and Not-for-Profit Management. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.