Wisconsin's Diverse Deal Team.

Erdman asked each of the lead firms to put in lead spots a diverse member of their firm's public finance group. Coolidge, whose banking career is rooted at minority and women-owned firms like the former majority woman-owned Smith Mitchell and the firm that's evolved into Siebert Williams Shank & Co., said efforts on diversity have come a long way since her start in the 1990s. After choosing the firms in the deal team for a bond refunding, Wisconsin's debt manager David Erdman decided it would serve as a good vehicle to act on a diversity goal that had been on his mind. [Extracted from the article]

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