| Joe Waters is a rural development specialist with the Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC). Waters has been responsible for securing more than $200,000 in Arizona tribal contracts and expanding the scope of RCAC’s services to tribes in Arizona. He has assisted tribes to submit more than $22 million in USDA Rural Development infrastructure applications. His technical assistance helped the Cocopah Tribe to develop and implement a model leveraging program for housing and rehabilitation. He has also been instrumental in helping Native communities establish new working relationships with Arizona state agencies.
In the past Waters has worked as a consultant to various tribes on housing related issues. He designed a tax credit project that involved the purchase and restoration of 16 low-income housing units in an historic hotel that had been vacant for more than 25 years. The project was funded by 11 different sources and recognized as an Outstanding Historic Preservation Project Winner by the New Mexico Cultural affairs Division. As a Planner and Grant Writer for the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Whiteriver, Arizona, he was responsible for helping the tribe secure more than $30 million in individual funding and an additional $52 million in group awards.
Waters holds a BA and a PhD in Economics from the University of Georgia.
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