Beadsie Woo is senior associate in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Center for Community and Economic Opportunity. Beadsie works on strategies to help vulnerable families build and protect their assets to become more financially stable. She coauthored Weathering the Recession: The Financial Crisis and Family Wealth Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods, a report that explored what happened to assets, debts and home equity for families living in low-income neighborhoods during the Great Recession.