the insight center's 2009-10 experts of color directory

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Helping People and Communities Become, and Remain, Economically Secure

2009-2010 Experts ofColor DirectoryEconomic Security and Asset Building

A Publication o the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative

www.expertsocolor.org


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The Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative

Unleashing the potential o all Americans to generate economic growth and laythe oundation or American competitiveness in the global marketplace requiresclosing the gap in economic security and mobility that exists between people

o color and whites. Today, while the median income or a amily o color isabout 70 percent o the income o a white amily, the average family of colorowns only 16 cents of wealth compared to the average white familys

dollar. Wealth, what you own minus what you owe, allows people to start abusiness, buy a home, send children to college, and ensure an economicallysecure retirement. Wealth is what allows amilies to weather the inevitableeconomic ups and downs o lie, provides them opportunities or innovationand entrepreneurship, and enables them to move up the social and economicladder.

The Insight Centers Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative is educating policy

makers about the magnitude o the racial wealth gap and why it is important orthe economy as a whole to close it, providing the media with experts who canspeak on the important economic issues o the day, and developing solutions toclose Americas racial wealth gap or the next generation.

For more inormation visit www.racialwealthgap.org.

The Experts of Color Network (ECON)

The Experts o Color Network contains over 140 o the nations leading NativeAmerican, Asian-American, Arican-American, Latino, and Native Hawaiianscholars, advocates, community practitioners, policy analysts, researchers,private sector leaders, philanthropists and government ocials in the asset-building eld.

Since 2004, the Insight Center or Community Economic Development andthe Ford Foundation have brought together the leading asset-building scholarsand practitioners o color to ensure that economic development and policydecisions create opportunity or all Americans, regardless o race or ethnicity.Through research, convenings, and network building, the Insight Center and

the Ford Foundation have ostered a community o experts in the eld who havedeveloped strategies or closing the racial wealth gap that persists in our society.

For more inormation and or the ull list o members visitwww.expertsocolor.org

The Insight Center for Community Economic Development

Founded in 1969, the Insight Center or Community Economic Developmentis a national nonprot research, consulting and legal organization dedicated to

building economic health and opportunity in vulnerable communities. We are aleader in promoting policies and programs that oster economic security, andthis principle is the driving orce behind all our work.

For more inormation about the Insight Center visitwww.insightcced.org


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About the Experts of Color Directory

This directory contains 74 experts o color on asset-building and economicsecurity to serve the needs o journalists, policymakers, researchers, and otherswho want to spotlight Americas racial wealth gap and crat solutions to close it.

They can oer their expertise and share their knowledge on issues that are mostrelevant to todays economy rom housing, jobs, savings and investment todebt, credit, social insurance and business development.

The experts in this directory were selected because they are established leadersin their elds who can lend their voice and expertise to shape national and localeconomic debates. I you nd an expert with the help o this directory, please letthe expert know you ound them through the directory.

Please note that this directory is only a small selection o the members in the

Experts o Color Network. The complete and most up-to-date list o experts in

our database can be ound at www.expertsocolor.org

Organization of the Directory

In order to acilitate nding the right expert or your needs, weve organizedour experts alphabetically and have provided their contact inormation, abrie biography, a description o their work and expertise, the population theyspecialize in, and their fuency in a language other than English.

In the appendices, you will nd the experts categorized by their last name,expertise, state o residence and language fuency. You will also nd a list o theClosing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiatives publications.

Contact an Expert

I you would like us to put you in contact with an expert, please email VictorCorral, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative Program Associate at [email protected] or call us at 510.251.2600.


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Bob Agres, Jr.

Executive DirectorHawaii Alliance orCommunity Based EconomicDevelopment

677 Ala Moana Blvd. Suite 702Honolulu, HI [email protected]

Bob Agres works to encourageincreased investments insustainable and community-based approaches to economicdevelopment by assistingcommunity-based economic

institutions that provide directeconomic benets to individuals,amilies, and communities witheducation, research and technicalassistance. Mr. Agres has helpedto establish the Hawai`i CBEDProgram in the State Departmento Business, EconomicDevelopment and Tourism, aswell as the Hawaii CommunityLoan Fund, a nationally certiedcommunity development nancialinstitution.

Type of Work

Research, Policy, Advocacy

Expertise

Community economicdevelopment, sustainable

development, small business,nancial services

Population Focus

Native Hawaiians

Rudy Arredondo

President, CEOLatino Farmers and RanchersNational Trade Association

717 D Street, NW, Suite 400Washington, DC [email protected]

Rudy Arredondo represents theinterests o small Latino armersand ranchers in Washington, DCdealing with policy, legislation andregulatory issues. He edits andpublishes the National HispanicPolitical Reporter, and is a past

member o the Hispanic LobbyistAssociation. He has workedor the DNC, the UFW, and theNational Association o HispanicPublishers. Mr. Arredondo is arecipient o the United Nations

Association (DC Chapter) HumanRights Award, the FoundersLeadership Award o the HispanicDemocratic Club o MontgomeryCounty, the Maryland GovernorsCitation or Health, the MarylandHouse o Delegates Citation orHealth Issues Leadership andthe Maryland Senate Citation orHealth Leadership.

Type of Work

Policy, AdvocacyExpertise

Land, minority agriculture,economic development, smallbusiness, entrepreneurship

Population Focus

Latinos

Language Fluency

Spanish


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Shannon J. Augare

Representative and MajorityWhipMontana House oRepresentatives

PO Box 2031

Browning, MT [email protected]

Rep. Augare (Enrolled BlackeetMember) is the Majority Whip othe MT House o Representatives.While directing a multi-state and19 tribal nation regional planningproject, he helped create landmark

public policy measures tosupport community inrastructuredevelopment, and is creditedwith creating a model o buildingsustainable partnerships andamily asset building programs. Heworks with Gov. Schweitzer andUS Senators Baucus and Tester oneconomic development projects,and serves on the US/ Thailand

Trade Negotiations taskorce toensure trade opportunities arepromoted or Indian Country.Rep. Augare serves on the MTBoard o Crime Control, the FamilyEconomic Security Council and isChairman o the Law and JusticeInterim Committee. He is the vice-chairman o the National Caucus oNative American State Legislatorsand serves on several committeeso the National Conerence o StateLegislators.

Type of Work

Policy maker, Financial ServicesExpertExpertise

Green jobs, asset-building,

economic development, smallbusiness, workorce development

Population Focus

Native Americans, residents romthe State o Montana

Algernon Austin, Ph.D.

DirectorRace, Ethnicity, andthe Economy ProgramEconomic Policy Institute

1333 H Street, NW Suite 300East TowerWashington, DC [email protected]

Dr. Austin is an expert in the eld oracial relations with a concentrationon Black Americans. His currentwork ocuses on workorcedevelopment and income aspreconditions to building wealth.Previously, he was AssistantDirector o Research at theFoundation Center and a Senior

Fellow at Demos. Dr. Austin haspublished numerous books andarticles, including Getting It Wrong:How Black Public Intellectuals

Are Failing Black America

(iUniverse, Inc., 2006), andAchieving Blackness: Race, Black

Nationalism, and Arocentrism in

the Twentieth Century(NYU Press,2006).

Type of Work

Research

Expertise

Labor market conditions,economic mobility and racialdiscrimination, workorcedevelopment

Population FocusArican-Americans


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Don E. Baylor, Jr.

Senior Policy AnalystCenter or Public Policy Priorities

900 Lydia StreetAustin, TX [email protected]

Don Baylor currently works onimproving public policies andprivate practices to advance theeconomic and social conditions olow- and moderate-income Texans.Previously, Mr. Baylor served as

a Legislative Director at New YorkACORN where he specialized insuch issues as the Earned Income

Tax Credit (EITC), the minimumwage, aordable housing, andwelare reorm.

Type of Work

Research, Policy

Expertise

Workorce and economicdevelopment, tax policy, debt &

credit, nancial services

Population Focus

Arican-Americans, Latinos

Janis Bowdler

Deputy DirectorWealth Building Policy ProjectNational Council o La Raza

Raul Yzaguirre Building1126 16th Street, NWWashington, DC 20036202.785.1670

[email protected]

Janis Bowdler oversees policyanalysis, research, and advocacyon issues related to housing,homeownership, wealth-buildingand nancial services in theLatino community. Previously, shewas the Project Manager or aresidential redevelopment projectat the Famicos Foundation.

Type of Work

Civil Rights, Advocacy

Expertise

Homeownership, predatory lendingand other nancial abuses, asset-building, debt & credit, nancialservices

Population Focus

Latinos


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Melissa L. Bradley

Senior Strategist,Capital Access ProgramGreen For All

4200 Wisconsin Ave, NWSuite #106-123Washington, DC [email protected]

Melissa is a Senior Strategistor Green For All, a nationalorganization dedicated to buildingan inclusive green economy thatwill lit people out o poverty,where she leads the Capital

Access Program that provideshuman, social and nancialcapital to entrepreneurs andbusinesses to create, scale andsustain green jobs. Melissa is theFounder and ormer ManagingDirector o New Capitalist, whichcreates economically protableand sustainable individuals,businesses and communities, andPositive Impact - an initiativethat promotes diverse voices andvisions within independent media.She is the Founder and Presidento Reentry Strategies Institute,the only national criminal justiceintermediary explicitly ocused onreentry, and serves as an Advisorto the Renewal 2 Investment Fund,and holds board positions withGeorgetown University Board oGovernors, Social Venture Network(ex-ocio), Green America (Chair),

the Creative Capital Foundation,and the Tides Network &Foundation. Previously, Melissawas a VP at UBS, and a FinancialRegulatory Aairs Fellow with theUS Department o Treasury.

Type of Work

Philanthropy, Researcher, PolicyAdvocate Financial Sector ExpertExpertise

Green jobs, business /

microenterprise, debt & credit,nancial education, products &services, savings & investment,post-secondary education training,wealth disparities, workorcedevelopment

Population Focus

People o Color, Asian Americans,Latinos, Native Americans, youth,rural populations and ex-oenders

Joe Brooks

Vice President or CivicEngagementPolicyLink

1438 Webster Street, Suite 303Oakland, CA 94612510.663.2333

[email protected]

Joe Brooks works to oster civicengagement by individuals and

community organizations andhas worked to solve problemsthrough mobilizing people andorganizations across the smalltowns o the Mississippi Deltaand in big metropolitan centers.He currently heads an innovativePolicyLink initiative to address thegrowing crisis acing boys and meno color, bringing together a diversecross-section o constituenciesto address the challenges o

social and economic justice. Mr.Brooks also has had extensiveexperience addressing rural blacklandownership issues and was asenior manager in the Berkeley,Caliornia government ocusingon neighborhood communitydevelopment. He has servedas president o the EmergencyLand Fund, editor o the Reviewo Black Political Economy,and as a program executive or

Neighborhood and CommunityDevelopment at the San FranciscoFoundation.

Type of Work


Expertise

Homeownership, land, savings &investment, wealth disparities

Population Focus

Communities o color


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Francis CalpoturaFounder & Executive Director

Transnational Institute orGrassroots Research and

Action (TIGRA)

900 Alice St. #320Oakland, CA [email protected]

Francis is the Founder andExecutive Director o TIGRA, amovement center or transnationalorganizing that promotes global

justice through the economicpower o immigrantsthose who

send billions o dollars throughthe wires to support the amiliestheyve let behind. Francis hasspent twenty-ve years as acommunity organizer, trainer andwriter, and has been Co-Directorat the Center or Third WorldOrganizing where he oundedinnovative training and organizingprojects like the Minority Activist

Apprenticeship Program. He is aounding member o the NationalOrganizers Alliance, Caliornians orJustice, the Alliance or PhilippineConcerns, and the Asian PacicEnvironmental Network, and hasreceived awards, ellowships,and recognitions or his work.In 2006, the InterCommunityPeace & Justice Center in Seattlecharacterized him as an EectiveSocial Changer, and in 2007,ColorLines Magazine named him

a Social Change Innovator toWatch.

Type of Work

Community Practitioner, PolicyAdvocateExpertise

Immigration, remittances, nancial

education, products & services,organizing strategies

Population Focus

People o color, immigrants, globalmigrants

Language Fluency

Tagalog, Spanish

Dennis Campa

DirectorCity o San Antonio Department oCommunity Initiatives

115 Plaza De Armas, Ste 210San Antonio, TX 78205210.207.7209

[email protected]

Dennis Campa has more than36 years o experience in humandevelopment services at the city,county and state levels. Througha network o private and publicsector partnerships, he leads

the Department o CommunityInitiatives to use its investmentsand strategies to address issuesconronting amilies, the elderlyand the workorce o San Antonio.Dennis leads projects that includenancial economic successprograms or working amilies,subsidized child care, servicesor the elderly and disabled;workorce development, youthdevelopment, and homeless

assistance among others. In 2009,Dennis was selected by CFED asan Innovator-in-Residence andwill be launching comprehensivesavings programs that will belinked to loan products, education,car ownership and housingstabilization in innovative waysto help individuals and amiliesachieve economic security.

Type of Work

Policy expert, CommunityPractitioner, Consultant

Expertise

Debt & credit, home ownership,

tax policy, nancial products,services and education, post-secondary education & training,savings & investment, workorcedevelopment

Population Focus

Residents o San Antonio,communities o color, immigrants


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James CarrChie Operating OcerNational CommunityReinvestment Coalition

727 15th Street, Suite 900Washington, DC 20005202.628.8866

[email protected]

James Carr is a nationallyrecognized expert on housing andurban policy, and the developmento innovative nancial instrumentsand strategies to promoteaordable lending, inner-city

development, and wealth creationor lower-income households. Mr.Carr is also a visiting proessor atColumbia University and GeorgeWashington University. He hasbeen a Senior VP or the FannieMae Foundation and AssistantDirector or Tax Policy with theU.S. Senate Budget Committee.He is an Aspen Institute Scholarand recipient o the CommunityImpact Award rom the NationalOrganization o Black CountyOcials, and has served as ViceChair o the Washington UrbanLeague, Trustee o the NationalCathedral Association, andMember o the Board o Directorsor The Washington Ballet. Mr.Carr is currently an AdvisoryCommittee member o the FederalReserve Bank o San Franciscoand the Center or Community

Development Investments.

Type of Work

Policy, ResearchExpertise

Homeownership, business/microenterprise, debt & credit, tax

policy, nancial education, nancialproducts & services, land, savings& investment, wealth disparities,workorce development

Population Focus

Arican-Americans, Latinos,Immigrants

Mariko Chang, Ph.D.

Author and IndependentConsultant

10 Overlook Dr.Acton, MA [email protected]

Mariko is the author o aorthcoming book on the genderwealth gap titled Shortchanged:Why Women Have Less Wealth

and What Can be Done About it

(Oxord University Press, 2009).Previously, she was an AssociateProessor o Sociology at HarvardUniversity where she publishedon the use o social networks orgathering nancial inormation andbegan her work on the genderwealth gap. In addition to herbook on the gender wealth gap,she is creating a website devotedto providing easily-accessibledata and act sheets on wealthinequality, including detailedinormation on assets and debts by

gender, race, and other importantcharacteristics.

Type of Work

Research, ConsultingExpertise

Gender wealth gap, debt &credit, home ownership, savings& investment, social insurance,wealth disparities

Population Focus

Women, people o color, youth,rural populations, and ex-oenders


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Teresa Cordova, Ph.D.

Associate ProessorSchool o Architectureand PlanningUniversity o New Mexico

2401 Central Ave NEAlbuquerque, NM 87121505.277.5050

[email protected]

Teresa Cordova is an AssociateProessor o Community andRegional Planning at the Universityo New Mexico, where sheteaches community and urbandevelopment, and communityeconomics. She is the Directoro the Resource Center or RazaPlanning which does research andpolicy analysis on issues aectingtraditional communities in NewMexico. She works on issuesrelated to environmental justiceglobal/local relations, grassrootsactivism, and communitydevelopment. She is the Presidento the Rio Grande CommunityDevelopment Corporation andsits on numerous boards and

steering committees o communitydevelopment corporations,planning organizations, andcampus committees.

Type of Work

Researcher, Policy advocateExpertise

Business/microenterprise, post-secondary education & training,community economic development

Population Focus

Latinos

Roger Clay

PresidentInsight Center or CommunityEconomic Development

2201 Broadway, Suite 815Oakland, CA [email protected]

Roger Clay currently leadsthe Insight Center, a nationalresearch, consulting and legalorganization dedicated to buildingeconomic health and opportunityin vulnerable communities. He

has extensive experience incommunity development andpublic interest law. He has beenGeneral Counsel or the CaliorniaHousing Finance Agency, and

Vice President o the Corporationor Supportive Housing. He hasbeen a board member o theCenter or Community Change,

Vice-Chair o the Stanord Boardo Trustees, the chair o both the

American Bar Association (ABA)Forum on Aordable Housingand Community DevelopmentLaw and the ABA Commission onHomelessness and Poverty. He iscurrently on the National AdvisoryBoard or the Stanord Institute onResearch in the Social Sciences.Mr. Clay recently received the2009 Michael S. Scher Awardor outstanding service andcommitment to aordable housing

and community development lawrom the ABA.

Type of Work

Research, Policy, CommunityPractice

Expertise

Homeownership, business

development, workorcedevelopment

Population Focus

Arican-Americans, communitieso color


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Robin Danner

President & CEOCouncil or Native Hawaiian

Advancement1050 Queen Street, Suite 200Honolulu, HI 96814800.709.CNHA (2642)[email protected]

Robin Danner has over 20 yearso public and private sectorexperience working with nativecommunities around issues ohousing and community economicdevelopment. Ms. Danner currently

leads an organization dedicatedto capacity building and providingsupport services to agencies andorganizations ocused primarily onNative communities in Hawaii andthe Pacic.

Type of Work

Research, Policy, Consulting

Expertise

Business/microenterprise,homeownership, nancial

education, nancial products &services, savings & investment,workorce development

Population Focus

Native Hawaiians

William A. Darity, Ph.D.

Arts and Sciences Proessor oPublic Policy Studies, Economics,and Arican and Arican AmericanStudiesSanord School o Public Policy

Duke UniversitySanord BuildingDurham, NC [email protected]

Dr. Daritys research includesa ocus on inequality by race,class and ethnicity, straticationeconomics, the racial achievementgap, skin shade and labormarket outcomes, and thesocial psychological eects ounemployment exposure. He

previously served as director othe Institute o Arican AmericanResearch at UNC Chapel Hill,was a ellow at the NationalHumanities Center, and a visitingscholar at the Federal ReservesBoard o Governors. He is a pastpresident o the National Economic

Association and the SouthernEconomic Association, and Editorin Chie o a new edition o theInternational Encyclopedia o theSocial Sciences. He has publishedor edited 10 books and morethan 200 articles in proessional

journals, his most recent booksinclude Boundaries o Clan andColor: Transnational Comparisons

o Inter-Group Disparity(co-editor2003) published by Routledge.

Type of Work

Researcher, ConsultantExpertise

Post-secondary education &training, wealth disparities,labor market issues, workorcedevelopment

Population Focus

People o Color, AricanAmericans, Latinos


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Zhu Xiao Di

Senior Research AnalystJoint Center or Housing Studies

Harvard University

1033 Massachusetts Avenue5th FloorCambridge, MA [email protected]

Zhu Xiao Dis work ocuses onwealth and income distributionand growth, debt and inheritance,housing demand and housingpolicy, and internationaldevelopment and public housingpolicy. Mr. Di is a contributorto The Oxord Handbook oPensions and Retirement Income

(Oxord University Press, 2006),and Land Policies and TheirOutcomes (Lincoln Institute oLand Policy, 2007). In addition

to helping produce The State othe Nations Housing report thatis annually released by the JointCenter, he has authored or co-authored numerous Joint Centerpublications on various issuesrelating to asset-building.

Type of Work

ResearchExpertise

Debt & credit, homeownership,wealth disparities

Population Focus

Communities o color

Language Fluency

Chinese (Mandarin)

Melany Dela Cruz

Assistant Director,Asian American Studies CenterUniversity o Caliornia Los Angeles

3230 Campbell HallLos Angeles, CA [email protected]

Melany Dela Cruz runs the AsianPacic American CommunityDevelopment Data Center, apartnership o the UCLA Asian

American Studies Center, theNational Coalition or Asian

Pacic American CommunityDevelopment (CAPACD), andU.S. Census Bureau CensusInormation Center Programwhich serves the census dataneeds o CAPACD members andother Asian and Pacic Islanderorganizations who work onhousing and community economicdevelopment. Melany providestraining and technical support ongathering and using census data;develops reports on Asian andNative Hawaiian/Pacic Islandersubpopulation group census data;as well as specialized reports,data, or mapping services to meetthe specic needs o community-based organizations.

Type of Work

Policy advocate, CommunityPractitioner, ResearcherExpertise

Demographics, business/

microenterprise, home ownership,post-secondary education &training, community economicdevelopment

Population Focus

Asian Americans


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James Fenelon, Ph.D.

ProessorCaliornia State UniversitySan Bernardino5500 University ParkwaySan Bernardino, CA 92407909.537.7291

[email protected]

Dr. Fenelon is a social justiceadvocate who has publishedextensively in the areas o

American Indian sociopoliticalissues, race/ethnic conficts,and social policies. In his book,Culturicide, Resistance, and

Survival o the Lakota (SiouxNation, 1998), he developedtheories and methods o analyzingthe United States domination oNative Americans through a studyo the Lakota society.

Type of Work

Research

Expertise

Urban community conficts,indigenous community struggles,land, post-secondary education &training

Population Focus

Native Americans

Rebecca DixonPolicy AnalystEnterprise Corporationo the Delta4 Old River PlaceJackson, MS 39202

[email protected]

Rebecca Dixon specializes in statebudget and tax analysis and policysupports or low-income workingamilies. Ms. Dixon has experiencein community economicdevelopment law, nonprot law,

and low-income health care policy.

Type of Work

Policy, Research, AdvocacyExpertise

Business and microenterprise,homeownership, tax policy,

nancial products & services, post-secondary education & training

Population Focus

Arican-Americans

Karen Edwards

PresidentKME Consulting15872 294th Circle

Arkansas City, KS [email protected]

Karen Edwards, a member othe Choctaw tribe, was the co-ounder o the Center or SocialDevelopment (CSD), and currentlyconsults with CSD and the KathrynM. Buder Center or AmericanIndian Studies at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, First Nations

Development Institute, and the FirstNations OWEESTA Corporation.Ms. Edwards has served as aresource or IDA programs andstate IDA policymakers andadvocates, and has conductedstudies on EITC, IDAs, and otherasset initiatives serving Nativecommunities.

Type of Work

Research

Expertise

Tax policy, nancial education,land, savings & investment, wealthdisparities

Population Focus

Native Hawaiians, NativeAmericans


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Jose Garcia

Associate Director or Researchand PolicyEconomic Opportunity ProgramDemos220 Fith Avenue, 5th FloorNew York, NY 10001

[email protected]

Jose Garcia provides statisticaland policy analysison issues suchas household debt and assets.Mr. Garcia is co-author oUp toOur Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders

and Failed Economic Policies

are Drowning Americans in Debt (Demos and The New Press,2008). He was the past VicePresident or Policy at the NationalInstitute or Latino Policy (NILP),and his writings and opinions haveappeared in the Boston Globe,BusinessWeek, USA Today, Los

Angeles Times, Daily News,

Univision and El Diario.

Type of Work

Policy, Research, Advocacy

Expertise

Debt & credit, homeownership,nancial products & services

Population Focus

Arican-Americans, Latinos

Language Fluency

Spanish

Tanya Fiddler

Executive DirectorFour Bands Community Fund

Four Bands Community FundBox 932Eagle Butte, SD [email protected]

Tanya Fiddler, a member o theCheyenne River Sioux Tribe, headsa nationally recognized NativeCDFI that is the lead organizationon the Cheyenne River IndianReservation in the areas o small

business training and lending,entrepreneurship, education andnancial literacy. Previously, Tanyaworked as a housing specialistor a reservation-based, Nativenonprot housing developmentorganization. Tanya is therecipient o the Small Business

Administrations 2007 MinorityBusiness Champion award orSouth Dakota and SBA Region

VIII, and the 2007 VisionaryLeader Award or Outstanding

Achievement rom First NationsOweesta Corporation or hercontributions to the Native CDFIindustry and local asset buildingeorts. In 2008, she was selectedas the Bureau o Indian AairsEntrepreneur Advocate o the Yearand received an Aspen InstituteFellowship. Tanya serves onseveral non-prot boards and is

the Co-Chair o the Native CDFINetwork and South Dakota IndianBusiness Alliance.

Type of Work

Community Development FinancialInstitutions (CDFI)Expertise

Small business/microenterprise

development, nancial education,products and services, savings &investments, housing and homelending

Population Focus

Native Americans, rural, andunderserved populations


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Moises Gonzales

Owner, Landscape Urbanist,Urban PlannerChimal Designs

116 Derramadera NEAlbuquerque, NM 87113505.269.1695

[email protected]

Moises Gonzales works toempower communities to driveand command the developmentprocess at the community andneighborhood level. Mr. Gonzaleswas the ormer Executive Director

and ounder o the Mexicano LandEducation and Conservation Trust,and is a recipient o the LoebFellowship or Sustainable UrbanDesign at the Harvard GraduateSchool o Design.

Type of Work

Consulting, Design

Expertise

Urban/landscape design,community organizing and

development, land

Population Focus

Latinos

Language Fluency

Spanish

Angela Glover Blackwell

Founder & CEOPolicyLink

1438 Webster Street, Suite 303Oakland, CA 94612510.663.2333

[email protected]

A national leader or social justiceand equity, Ms. Blackwell seeksto strengthen America by creatingstronger low-income communitiesand communities o color. Aormer senior VP at the Rockeeller

Foundation, she has appeared onNightline, PBSs NOW, and is arequent commentator on publicradios Marketplace and The

Tavis Smiley Show, and has beeneatured on the opinion pages onumerous national newspapers.She is the ounder o the OaklandUrban Strategies Council, whereshe pioneered new approaches toneighborhood revitalization, andwas a partner at Public Advocates,a nationally known public interestlaw rm. She is the co-author oSearching or the Uncommon

Common Ground: New

Dimensions on Race in America(W.W. Norton & Co., 2002), andcontributed to Ending Poverty

in America: How to Restore the

American Dream (The New Press,2007), an anthology edited by JohnEdwards. She serves on numerous

boards and co-chairs a task orceon poverty or the Center orAmerican Progress.

Type of Work

Policy, Research, AdvocacyExpertise

Poverty, race and democracy,healthy and aordable

communities, equitabledevelopment

Population Focus

Communities o color


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Luis Granados

Executive Director

Mission Economic

Development Agency

3505 Mission St.

San Francisco, CA 94110

415.282.3334

[email protected]

Luis Granados works on issueso asset-building as they relateto low- and moderate-incomeindividuals, particularly Spanish-speaking Latinos. He has ledthe development o a business,

homeownership, and assetdevelopment program, andcurrently leads the development oPlaza Adelante, a one-stop assetdevelopment and amily supportcenter or low-income individuals.He was a ounding member othe Mission Anti-DisplacementCoalition and the San FranciscoHomeownership Center. He serveson the Board o Directors or theNational Association o LatinoCommunity Asset Builders, theCaliornia Reinvestment Coalition,the Caliornia Association oMicro-Enterprise Organizations,the Mission Asset Fund and theGaleria de la Raza.

Type of Work

Community EconomicDevelopment

Expertise

Homeownership, asset-building,

small business development

Population Focus

Latinos

Language Fluency

Spanish

Gena Gunn

Project DirectorCenter or Social DevelopmentWashington UniversityGeorge Warren Brown Schoolo Social Work

Campus Box 1196One Brookings DriveSt. Louis, MO [email protected]

Gena Gunn works directly withstate assets policymakers andadvocates providing technical

assistance on the developmento asset policies and inclusiveand diverse statewide asset-building coalitions. Ms. Gunnalso directs a placed-basedcommunity economic developmentresearch project and serves asthe community liaison or asset-building initiatives.

Type of Work

Research, Consulting

ExpertiseDebt & credit, asset policy,wealth disparities, economic andworkorce development

Population Focus

Communities o color


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Sarah Hicks, Ph.D.

Director

National Congress o American

Indians (NCAI)

Policy Research Center

1516 P Street NW,

Washington DC 20005

202.466.7767

[email protected]

Sarah Hicks is an enrolled membero the Native Village o Ouzinkie.Ms. Hicks previously worked orthe Bureau o Indian Aairs. Sheis a welare reorm expert and theounding director o NCAIs Policy

Research Center which operateswith a tribally-driven, capacity-building research agenda or thebenet o tribal communities. Withguidance rom tribal leadershipand NCAI, Sarah sets the strategicdirection or the Policy ResearchCenter and oversees the Centerswork. She also serves as principalinvestigator on a number o theCenters projects.

Type of Work


Expertise

Social insurance, savings &investments

Population Focus

Native Americans

Savi Horne

Executive Director

Land Loss Prevention Project

411 West Chapel Hill St.

Suite 1104

Durham, NC 27701

800.672.5839

[email protected]

Savi Horne leads a public interest

law frm created by the North

Carolina Association o Black

Lawyers in response to the decline

in amily armers and low-income

and minority landowners. In this

capacity, she develops agriculturepolicy initiatives at regional and

ederal levels that encourage

minority and limited-resource

armers to continue to work on the

land. She specializes in minority

agricultural issues, sustainable

agriculture, ood systems policy, and

environmental justice policy. Ms.

Horne has received awards rom

the Southern Region Sustainable

Research & Education Program,

and the Environmental Protection

Agency.

Type of Work

Policy, Law, Consulting

Expertise

Land, agricultural policy, minorityarmers, business/microenterprise,

debt & credit, homeownership

Population Focus

Arican-Americans

Paul Hudson

Chairman and CEOBroadway Federal Bank

4800 Wilshire BoulevardLos Angeles, CA [email protected]

Paul Hudson is an expert oncommunity based nancialservices. He heads BroadwayFederal Bank, the 4th largestBlack-owned bank in thecountry, with a 60+ year historyo service to underserved urban

communities. Mr. Hudson isactive on many boards includingthe Los Angeles CommunityRedevelopment Agency, theOrthopedic Hospital Foundation,the Red Cross, the SouthernCaliornia Counseling Center, andchairs the Board o CommunityBuild, Inc.

Type of Work

Financial Services, CommunityDevelopment

Expertise

Business/microenterprise,homeownership, nancial

education, nancial products &services, savings & investment

Population Focus

Communities o color


19/44


Hyepin Im

President & CEOKorean Churches or CommunityDevelopment

3550 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 922Los Angeles, CA [email protected]

Hyepin Im helps aith-based andcommunity based organizationsbuild capacity in economicdevelopment. She has partneredwith the FDIC and FreddieMac to develop a Korean

curriculum in nancial literacy andhomeownership, and implementeda $5 million U.S. Dept. o Laborworkorce development program.Ms. Im has organized a aith-based conerence in conjunctionwith the White House, and theU.S. Department o Housing andUrban Development, and has alsodeveloped a national database andresearch study on Asian Americanchurches. Her work and opinionshave appeared in numerousnational media outlets.

Type of Work

Community Practice, Research,ConsultingExpertise

Homeownership, nancial

education, savings & investment,workorce and economicdevelopment

Population Focus

Asian Americans, Immigrants

Language Fluency

Korean

Terry Janis

Program OcerIndian Land Tenure Foundation

151 East County Road B2Little Canada, MN [email protected]

Terry Janis, an Oglala Lakota,works extensively on Native

American and internationalindigenous education, humanrights, and native land ownership.

At the Northwest Area Foundation,he helped to design and implement

a rural leadership program,Horizons. Currently, Mr. Janis sitson the board o the Two FeathersEndowment o The Saint PaulFoundation and is a member oNative Americans in Philanthropy,the National Indian Education

Association, the National Congresso American Indians, and the StateBar o Arizona.

Type of Work

Community PractitionerExpertise

Tribal land ownership, education,law, indigenous rights, ruraldevelopment

Population Focus

Native Americans


20/44


Saru Jayaraman

Co-DirectorRestaurant Opportunities Center,United (ROC-U)

275 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2300New York, NY [email protected]

Ater 9/11, together with workersrom Windows on the World,the restaurant at the top othe World Trade Center, SaruJayaraman ounded and ran animmigrant workers organizing

center or restaurant workers. AtROC-U, Ms. Jayaraman conductsresearch and policy work relatedto the restaurant industry,works to win workplace justicecampaigns, and has launched acooperatively-owned restaurant.She is an Assistant Proessor oPublic Interest Law at BrooklynCollege, and previously createdand developed The Alliance ForJustice, a new Law and OrganizingProgram at the Workplace Project,a Latino immigrant workersrights center. Ms. Jayaraman hasappeared on many national mediaoutlets and has been recognizedor her work by President BillClinton, Crains Business Weekly,the Rockeeller Foundation, MayorMichael Bloomberg and theHarvard Foundation.

Type of Work

Policy, Advocacy, Research

Expertise

Business/microenterprise,workorce and economic

development, wealth disparities,domestic and international labor

Population Focus

Communities o color, Immigrants

Language Fluency

Spanish

Avis Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D.

Director

Research, Public Policy and

Inormation Center or Arican

American Women,

National Council o Negro Women

633 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20004

202.737.0120

[email protected]

Dr. Jones-DeWeever is an experton poverty in urban communities,inequality o educationalopportunity and the impact owelare reorm on women andcommunities o color. She is theauthor o numerous publicationson policy issues aecting womeno color, including Women in theWake o the Storm: Examining

the Post-Katrina Realities o the

Women o New Orleans and the

Gul Coast; Saving Ourselves:

Arican American Women and

the HIV/AIDS Crisis; Resilient and

Reaching or More: Challenges

and Benefts o Higher Education

or Welare Recipients; and theorthcoming, Black Girls in the Cityo New York: Quiet Strength, Bold

Resilience. She is a highly sought-ater political commentator whose

policy perspectives have beeneatured on CNN, NPR, the NewYork Times, and the WashingtonPost.

Type of Work


Expertise

Health, education, economicempowerment, post-secondaryeducation & training, wealthdisparities

Population Focus

Women, Arican-Americans,communities o color


21/44


Kilolo Kijakazi, Ph.D.

Program OcerFord Foundation

320 East 43rd Street, 6th FloorNew York, NY [email protected]

Dr. Kijakazi works in theFord Foundations EconomicDevelopment Unit in the Asset-building and CommunityDevelopment Program. She isresponsible or taking to scale

the work on acilitating savingsand investments or low-incomeamilies and individuals, andensuring that these asset-buildingstrategies are culturally relevantto the communities they impact.Previously, Dr. Kijakazi worked atthe Center on Budget and PolicyPriorities where she specialized inSocial Security, provided testimonybeore Congress, and served asa panelist at the White HouseConerence on Social Securityunder the Clinton Administration.Prior to that, she worked at theUS Department o Agriculture,Food and Nutrition Service whereshe designed and monitoredevaluations o the Food StampProgram, and at the NationalUrban League. She is the author omany scholarly articles publishedby the National Academy o Social

Insurance, the GerontologicalSociety and others. In 1997 shepublished a book titled,Arican-

American Economic Development

and Small Business Ownership

(Garland Publishing, 1997).

Type of Work

Policy, Research

Expertise

Social insurance & Social Security,savings & investments, pensions

Population Focus

Communities o color

Nandinee K. Kutty, Ph.D.

Independent Consultant

1040 N. Quincy St. Apt. 411Arlington, VA 22201

[email protected]

Dr. Kutty is a policy consultant whospecializes in elderly householdnances and Social Security. She

is particularly interested in wealth/asset accumulation strategiesthrough housing and nancialinvestments. Dr. Kuttys researchhas been published in peer-reviewed journals o economicsand public policy. She is theco-editor and contributor orSegregation: The Rising Costsor America (Routledge, 2008),and previously taught at CornellUniversity.

Type of Work

Research, Policy

ExpertiseHomeownership, business/microenterprise, tax policy,nancial education, nancialproducts & services, savings &investment, social insurance

Population Focus

Communities o color, Immigrants

Language Fluency

Hindi


22/44


Wilhelmina Leigh, Ph.D.Senior Research AssociateJoint Center or Political andEconomic Studies1090 Vermont Ave., NW,Suite 1100Washington, DC [email protected]

Dr. Leigh works in the areas ohealth policy, housing policy,income security/asset building, andlabor market issues. Previously,she was a principal analyst atthe U.S. Congressional Budget

Oce, and has held positions atthe Bureau o Labor Statistics,U.S. Department o Labor, theU.S. Department o Housing andUrban Development, the UrbanInstitute, and the National UrbanLeague. Dr. Leigh has taught atGeorgetown, Harvard, and Howarduniversities, and the University o

Virginia. She is an elected membero the National Academy o SocialInsurance.

Type of Work

Research

Expertise

Homeownership, Social Security &social insurance, wealth disparities

Population Focus

Communities o color

Meizhu Lui

Director

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

Initiative

Insight Center or Community

Economic Development

2201 Broadway, Suite 815

Oakland, CA 94612

510.251.2600

[email protected]

For over 30 years, Meizhu Lui hasdedicated hersel to economic

justice, working as an educator,organizer, and academic scholar.She currently heads an initiativeto close the racial wealth gap.Previously Ms. Lui headed United

or a Fair Economy, and was therst Asian American to becomethe elected President o a localunion in Massachusetts. Her workor racial and gender equality hasbeen recognized by the BostonWomens Fund, the Union oMinority Neighborhoods, andthe Labor Studies Program atthe University o Massachusettsin Boston. She is a Trustee othe Hyams Foundation and wasselected or the 2007 Barr FellowsProgram. Ms. Lui also served onthe Center or American ProgressNational Initiative to End Poverty,and co-authored The Color oWealth: The Story Behind the

US Racial Wealth Divide (TheNew Press, 2006). Meizhu hasappeared on CNN, C-SPAN, andher op-eds have been publishedby the Washington Post and the

San Francisco Chronicle. She is amember o Politicos Arena and aBraintrustero the New Deal 2.0Project.

Type of Work


Expertise

Community, economic, andworkorce development, wealthdisparities, tax policy

Population Focus

Communities o color


23/44


Christine McPherson

Managing Director

Indian Child Welare Program

Casey Family Programs

1300 Dexter Ave. North, Floor 3

Seattle, WA 98109

206.270.4910

[email protected]

Christine McPherson is a membero the Sault Ste. Marie Tribeo Chippewa Indians who hasadvocated or services or childrenon tribal, state, and national levelsor many years. She previously

served as the Division Directoro Anishnabek Community andFamily Services, a comprehensivesocial services agency or thetribe. She has also served on theMichigan Governors Task Force onChildrens Justice.

Type of Work

Research, Policy

Expertise

Debt & credit, homeownership,land, post-secondary education &

training

Population Focus

Native Americans

Elsie Meeks

Director o the South DakotaUSDA Rural Development Oce

USDA Rural DevelopmentState Oce200 4th Street SWFederal Building, Room 210Huron, SD 57350605.352.1100

Elsie Meeks has over 20 yearso experience working orNative community economicdevelopment. In February 2009,Elsie Meeks was nominated toserve as the Director o the USDARural Development Oce inSouth Dakota, her conrmation

is pending. Ms. Meeks servesas chairperson o the LakotaFunds and is a board membero the Corporation or EnterpriseDevelopment, Northwest

Area Foundation, Council onFoundations and the Oglala Sioux

Tribe Partnership or Housing. Sheis an International Advisory Councilmember o Native Nations Instituteand is on the Board o Governors

or the Honoring Nations programo the Harvard Project on AmericanIndian Economic Development.She completed a six-year termon the U.S. Commission onCivil Rights and was the rstNative American to serve on theCommission. Ms. Meeks is thecurrent chairperson or the NativeFinancial Education Coalition.

Type of Work

Research, Advocacy, CommunityDevelopment Financial Institutions(CDFIs)Expertise

Savings & investments, nancialservices, land

Population Focus

Native Americans, ruralpopulations


24/44


Lisa Mensah

Executive DirectorInitiative on Financial Security

The Aspen Institute

271 Madison Avenue, Suite 804New York, NY [email protected]

Lisa Mensah is an expert in usingnancial tools to improve theeconomic security o the workingpoor, and works to encouragepersonal savings or low- andmiddle-income Americans.

She leads an advisory boardto explore nancial productsthat build wealth rom birth toretirement or working amilies.Ms. Mensah has served as aDeputy Director or the EconomicDevelopment Unit, and the RuralPoverty and Resources programat the Ford Foundation, workingon micronance and womenseconomic development, and wasthe leading national under oindividual development accountsto community organizations. Priorto her work at Ford, she workedin the Corporate Finance AnalysisDivision o Citibank.

Type of Work

Policy, Research

Expertise

Homeownership, nancialeducation, pension, savings &

investment

Population Focus

Communities o color

Thomas Mitchell

Associate Proessor

University o Wisconsin Law School

975 Bascom Mall

Madison, WI 53706

608.890.1237

[email protected]

Thomas Mitchell is a nationalexpert on the issue o Arican-

American landownership, andis working with the National

Conerence o Commissioners andthe Ford Foundation on UniormState Laws on drating the Uniorm

Tenancy in Common PartitionAct. He serves on the AmericanBar Associations PropertyPreservation Task Force and isthe Vice-President o the board oFarmers Legal Action Group.

Type of Work

Research, Policy

Expertise

Rural community developmentand legal issues governing theownership and retention oproperty in poor and minoritycommunities in rural America

Population Focus

Arican-Americans

Kirsten Moy

Director

Economic Opportunities Program

The Aspen Institute

One Dupont Circle, NW

Suite 700


202.736.5800

[email protected]

Kirsten Moy heads the AspenInstitutes Economic OpportunitiesProgram, which promotes learningabout highly promising povertyalleviation, sel-employment,and employment strategies. Ms.Moy previously led a national

research project at the CommunityDevelopment Innovation andInrastructure Initiative (CDIII).She was a distinguished visitorwith the Human and CommunityDevelopment program o the JohnD. and Catherine T. MacArthurFoundation, and served asthe Director o the CommunityDevelopment Financial InstitutionsFund (CDFI) at the US Departmento Treasury under PresidentClinton.

Type of Work

Research, Policy

Expertise

Asset building or low-incomeconsumers, communitydevelopment nance, socially

responsible investing, scale-up ocommunity-based organizationsand initiatives

Population Focus

Underserved and under-bankedcommunities, communities o color


25/44


Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ph.D.

Associate Proessor

Arican American

Studies Department

John Jay College, CUNY

445 West 59th St., Rm. 3217N

New York, NY 10009

[email protected]

Jessica Gordon Nembhard is apolitical economist, policy analyst,and an educator. Her researchocuses on community and assetbased economic developmentand policy; democratic community

economics, cooperativeeconomics and worker ownership;and wealth building in communitieso color. She is a specialistin developing and analyzingindicators o asset buildingthrough cooperative ownership.She co-edited the volume Wealth

Accumulation and Communities

o Color in the U.S.: Current

Issues with Ngina Chiteji (Univ.o Michigan Press, 2006); and iscompleting a book on the historyo Arican- American cooperatives.Dr. Gordon Nembhard is a Master

Teacher or Howard UniversitysSummer Institute on Race andWealth, and a visiting scholarwith the Howard EconomicsDepartments Center on Race andWealth. She is a board member othe National Economic Association,

The Ecological Democracy Institute

o North American and GrassrootsEconomic Organizing Newsletter,the Black Enterprise MagazineBoard o Economists and theeditorial board o the journalFeminist Economics.

Type of Work

Research, Teaching, Consulting

Expertise

Community economicdevelopment and asset building,

cooperative businesses,microenterprise, post-secondaryeducation & training, workorcedevelopment

Population Focus

Arican-Americans, low-incomeand urban communities

Melvin Oliver, Ph.D.

Dean o Social Sciences

and Proessor

University o Caliornia at Santa

Barbara

College o Letters and Science

Cheadle Hall, Room 2217

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

805.893.8354

[email protected]

Dr. Oliver is a nationally recognizedexpert on racial/urban inequalityand poverty who has published

extensively on racial wealthdisparities. Previously, he was VicePresident o the Asset-building andCommunity Development Programat the Ford Foundation, and aUCLA aculty member. Dr. Oliverhas been a contributor to manybooks and scholarly journals, andis the co-author oBlack Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective

on Racial Inequality(Routledge,1997), an award-winning and now

classic exploration o wealth, race,and inequality. He has receivedmany prestigious awards or hiswork, and currently serves onthe board o the Urban Institute,DBASSE, University o MichigansNational Poverty Center, PolicyLinkand the McCune Foundation.He is a Sociological Research

Association member and hasserved on the Council o the

American Sociological Association.

Type of Work

Research, Policy

ExpertiseRacial/urban inequalityand poverty, debt & credit,homeownership, land, pension,savings & investment, wealthdisparities

Population Focus



26/44


Paul Ong, Ph.D.

Proessor o Urban Planning,Social Welare and Asian AmericanStudiesUniversity o Caliornia at Los

Angeles

3250 School o Public AairsBuildingLos Angeles, CA [email protected]

Dr. Ong has done research on thelabor market status o minoritiesand immigrants, displaced high-tech workers, work and welare,and transportation access. Heis currently studying the eects

o neighborhood economies onwelare and work, communityeconomic development in minoritycommunities, and the labor marketor healthcare workers. Previously,Dr. Ong studied the impact oimmigration on the employmentstatus o young Arican-

Americans, and the infuence o carownership and subsidized housingon welare usage. He co-authoreda widely reported 1994 study on

Asian Pacic Americans, whichchallenged the popular stereotypeo Asians as the countrys modelminority by showing they are justas likely as other groups to beimpoverished. Dr. Ong has servedas an advisor to the U.S. Bureauo the Census, the CaliorniaDepartment o Social Services, thestate Department o EmploymentDevelopment and the Wellness

Foundation and the South CoastAir Quality Management District.

Type of Work

ResearcherExpertise

Business/microenterprise, homeownership, post-secondary

education & training, wealthdisparities, workorce development

Population Focus

Asian Americans, Immigrants,Native Hawaiians

Aracely Panameo

Director, Latino AairsCenter or Responsible Lending

910 17th St., NW Suite 500Washington, DC [email protected]

Aracely Panameo is in chargeo engaging with the Latinocommunity at the Centeror Responsible Lending, anorganization dedicated toprotecting homeownershipand amily wealth by workingto eliminate abusive nancialpractices. Aracely is a Latinaleader, activist, and spokespersonat the domestic and internationallevel. For more than 20 years,

Aracely has worked on Latinawomens health issues,migrant workers, education,immigration, and economic

justice. She is a published author,accomplished public speaker,media commentator, reporter and

columnist, strategic grassrootsorganizer and coalition builder.

Type of Work

Policy, Financial SectorExpertise

Debt & credit, homeownership,nancial products & services,wealth disparities, immigration

Population Focus

Latinos, immigrants, people ocolor

Language Fluency

Spanish


27/44


Manuel Pastor, Ph.D.

Proessor o Geography andAmerican Studies and EthnicityUniversity o Southern CaliorniaCollege o Letters, Artsand SciencesDepartment o Geography

Kaprielian Hall (KAP)3620 South Vermont AvenueLos Angeles, CA [email protected]

Dr. Pastor is a nationallyrecognized expert on issues odemographic change, economicinequality, and communityempowerment whose opinionpieces have been published in the

LA Times, the San Jose MercuryNews, the Los Angeles Business

Journal, and the Christian ScienceMonitor. He served as a membero the Commission on Regionsappointed by Caliornias Speakero the State Assembly, and wasawarded a Civic Entrepreneur othe Year award rom the CaliorniaCenter or Regional Leadership.He currently sits on the boardo the Economic Policy Institute,the Los Angeles Alliance or aNew Economy and the Center orCommunity Change.

Type of Work

Policy, Research

Expertise

Urban poverty, regionaldevelopment, labor markets and

low-wage workers

Population Focus

Latinos

Luis Pastor

CEO

Latino Community Credit Union

201 W. Main Street, Suite B01

Durham, NC 27701919.688.9270

[email protected]

Luis Pastor oversees one o the

astest growing community-based

and member-owned nonproft

fnancial institutions in the U.S. that

provides protection o fnancial

assets, access to loans, fnancial

independence and fnancial

education. His innovative and

community-based fnancial services

are nationally recognized and have

been awarded the Herb Wegner

Award or outstanding organization,

the Dora Maxwell Award or social

responsibility, the Louis Herring

Award or Philosophy in Action, the

Wachovia NEXT Award, and theCredit Union Excellence in Lending

Award.

Type of Work

Financial Services

Expertise

Community and economicdevelopment, nancial products& services, nancial education,savings & investments

Population Focus

Latinos

Language Fluency

Spanish

Kimberly Pate

Vice President or Strategic

Partnerships

CFED

1200 G Street NW, Suite 400


202.408.9788

[email protected]

Kimberly Pate specializes in

representing the interests o

low-income women, amilies and

disadvantaged communities.

Previously, Ms. Pate was the Deputy

Director o National Projects or

Wider Opportunities or Women

(WOW), a womens employment

organization that is recognized

nationally or its skills training

models, technical assistance and

advocacy or women workers.

Type of Work

Financial Services, Policy

Expertise

Business development, savings& investments, microenterprise,entrepreneurship, tax policy

Population Focus

Native Americans, women


28/44


Edward Pennick

DirectorLand Assistance FundFederation o SouthernCooperatives2769 Church StreetEast Point, GA 30344404.765.0991

[email protected]

Edward Pennick works to providesel-help economic opportunitiesand hope or many low-incomecommunities across the South,through the only organizationin the Southeast that has as itsprimary objectives the retentiono Black owned land and the use

o cooperatives or land-basedeconomic development. He is anexpert with extensive experienceon various land, business,rural, and agricultural issues asthey relate to minority armers,specically Black armers, and hastestied beore Congress on behalo a coalition o minority armers onthe 2008 Farm Bill.

Type of Work

Cooperatives, CommunityDevelopmentExpertise

Land, agriculture, and minorityarmer issues in the AmericanSouth

Population Focus

Arican-Americans

john a. powellExecutive Director

The Kirwan Institute or the Studyo Race and Ethnicity

The Ohio State University

433 Mendenhall Laboratories125 S. Oval MallColumbus, OH 43210614.688.5429

[email protected]

john powell is an internationallyrecognized authority in the areas ocivil rights, civil liberties, and issuesrelating to race, ethnicity, povertyand the law. He has publishedextensively on the issues ostructural racism, racial justice andregionalism, concentrated povertyand urban sprawl, opportunitybased housing, voting rights, andarmative action. Previously, Mr.powell ounded and directed theInstitute on Race and Poverty atthe University o Minnesota. He hasalso served as Director o LegalServices in Miami, Florida and wasthe National Legal Director o the

ACLU.

Type of Work

Research, PolicyExpertise

Homeownership, civil rights,civil liberties, wealth disparities,business development

Population Focus


Jaqueline Johnson Pata

Executive Director

National Congress o American

Indians (NCAI)

1516 P Street NW,

Washington DC 20005

202.466.7767

[email protected]

Jaqueline Johnson Pata currentlyheads the oldest and largesttribal government organization inthe United States. Prior to joiningNCAI, Ms. Johnson served asdeputy assistant secretary or

Native American programs o theU.S. Department o Housing andUrban Development. She is theprevious Executive Director o the

Tlingit-Haida Regional HousingAuthority in Juneau, Alaska, anda ormer vice chair o the AlaskaHousing Finance Corporation. Ms.Johnson Pata is a member o theRaven/Sockeye clan o the Tlingittribe.

Type of Work

Policy, Tribal Government,Advocacy

Expertise

Homeownership, housing policy,

land

Population Focus

Native Americans


29/44


Jose Quionez

Executive DirectorMission Asset Fund1500 South Van Ness Ave,Suite 200San Francisco, CA 94110415.738.2559

[email protected]

Jose Quionez currently headsan organization which seeksto expand access to nancialservices, savings and investmentopportunities or residents oSan Franciscos Mission District,

a primarily working class, Latinocommunity. Mr. Quionezpreviously worked in the Oce oCongressman Ruben Hinojosa,and as a lobbyist or variousnonprot organizations advocatingon an array o issues includingimmigration, hunger, and welare.He has also worked at the Centeror Responsible Lending, as wellas or the Asset Policy Initiative inCaliornia.

Type of Work

Policy, Community Practitioner

Expertise

Financial products & services,savings & investment, wealth

disparities

Population Focus

Latinos, Immigrants

Language Fluency

Spanish

Michael E. Roberts

President

First Nations Development

Institute

703 3rd Avenue, Suite B

Longmont, CO 80501

303.774.7836

[email protected]

Michael E. Roberts is an enrolled

member o the Central Council o

Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes o

Alaska. He is currently working to

restore Native control and culturally-

compatible stewardship o the

assets o Native people including

land, human potential, cultural

heritage, and natural resources,and to establish new assets or

ensuring the long-term vitality o

Native communities. Previously, Mr.

Roberts worked in venture capital

and private equity. He currently

serves on the Advisory Council

o the Center or Native American

Public Radio, on the National

Advisory Committee or the National

Center or Family Philanthropy, as

well as the Advisory Committee or

the Lakota Fund, Indian Countrys

frst community development

fnancial institution. Mr. Roberts is a

past board member and treasurer

o the Association or Enterprise

Opportunity.

Type of Work

Native Assets

Expertise

Business/microenterprise, debt &credit, homeownership, tax policy,land, savings & investment

Population FocusNative Americans


30/44


Barbara Robles, Ph.D.

Associate Proessor

School o Social Work and the

National Center or Community

Development and Civil Rights,

College o Public Programs,

Arizona State University

411 N. Central Ave., Suite 800

Phoenix, AZ 85004

602.496.0074

[email protected]

Dr. Robles is a nationally recognized

expert on Latino small and micro

business, Latino amily and

community fnancial needs and

behaviors, and asset-building

policies. She has published

extensively and co-authored TheColor Wealth: The Story Behind

the Racial Wealth Divide (The

New Press, 2006). Her work

has been unded by the Annie E.

Casey Foundation, State Farm

Foundations, the Kauman

Foundation, and the Filene

Research Institute.

Type of Work

Research

Expertise

Business/microenterprise, debt& credit, homeownership, tax

policy, nancial education, nancialproducts & services, post-secondary education & training,wealth disparities

Population Focus

Latinos, Immigrants

Language Fluency

Spanish

Maya Rockeymoore, Ph.D.Founder and PresidentGlobal Policy Solutions, LLC

1830 11th Street, NW Suite 1Washington, DC [email protected]

Dr. Rockeymoore is a respectedpolicy analyst, researcher, andadvocate who works with non-prot organizations, oundations,governmental entities, and socially-

responsible corporations todevelop creative and measurablechange strategies to help solvepressing social, economic, andenvironmental challenges. She waspreviously a VP or Research andPrograms at the CongressionalBlack Caucus Foundation whereshe ounded the Center or Policy

Analysis and Research (CPAR).Dr. Rockeymoore has been aSenior Resident Scholar at theNational Urban League, Chie OSta to Congressman CharlesRangel (D-NY), and has served asProessional Sta on the HouseWays and Means Committee. Sheserves on the board o the NationalCommittee to Preserve SocialSecurity and Medicare, and hasappeared on numerous nationalmedia outlets. She is the authoroThe Political Action Handbook:

A How to Guide or the Hip HopGeneration (R&A Press, 2004),and co-editor oStrengtheningCommunity: Social Insurance in

a Diverse America (BrookingsInstitution Press, 2004), and a2004 Aspen Institute Henry CrownFellow.

Type of Work

PolicyExpertise

Business/microenterprise,

pension, Social Security & socialinsurance, health

Population Focus

Communities o color


31/44


Eric Rodriguez

Deputy Vice PresidentOce o Research, Advocacyand LegislationNational Council o La Raza

Raul Yzaguirre Building1126 16th Street, NWWashington, DC [email protected]

Eric Rodriguez is responsibleor providing strategic guidanceor public policy, legislative, andadvocacy activities related toeconomic mobility and nancialsecurity policy issues. This work

involves coverage o a wide rangeo issues including ederal budget,tax, banking, homeownership,and Social Security reorm. Hehas written or contributed topublications on economic issuesand their impact on low-incomeLatinos, and has been cited in boththe English and Spanish media. Hehas testied beore Congress onSocial Security reorm, mortgagelending, welare reorm, and othermajor issues, and is a currentmember o the National Academyo Social Insurance Security anda past board member o theCoalition on Human Needs.

Type of Work

Policy, Research, Advocacy

Expertise

Tax policy, social insurance,homeownership, nancial services,

and Social Security

Population Focus

Latinos

Trina Shanks, Ph.D.

Assistant Proessor

University o Michigan

School o Social Work

1080 S. University

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

734.764.7411

[email protected]

Dr. Shanks is an expert on the

relationship between assets,

poverty and childrens well-being;

public policy or amilies; social and

economic development, particularlyin urban communities. Dr. Shanks

is the Co-Principal Investigator or

SEED Impact Assessment (Saving

or Education, Entrepreneurship,

and Downpayment) to assess

the impact o matched savings

accounts targeted toward saving

or childrens education. Prior to

joining academia, Dr. Shanks was

an Executive Director or Christian

Community Services, Inc., where

she initiated its amily mentoring

program and introduced Individual

Development Accounts to its work

with public housing residents. Shes

also been a consultant or Stand or

Children, a Childrens Deense Fund

afliate.

Type of Work

Research

Expertise

Savings & investment, wealthdisparities

Population Focus

Arican-Americans

Language Fluency

Spanish


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Miguel Soto-Class

Executive DirectorCenter or the New Economy

273 Ponce De Leon, Ste. 1403San Juan, [email protected]

Miguel Soto-Class has had awide range o experience in boththe private and public sectors,and ounded Puerto Ricos rstthink-tank to promote innovativeeconomic development strategies.He serves on the Board oDirectors or the University oPuerto Rico Press, the BaldwinSchool o Puerto Rico, andthe Advisory Council or theConservation Trust o PuertoRico. Mr. Soto-Class has been acolumnist or El Nuevo Da, PuertoRicos largest circulation daily,and his rst book, The Economyo Puerto Rico: Restoring Growth,

was published by the BrookingsInstitution in 2006.

Type of Work


Tax policy, savings & investment

Population Focus

Latinos, Puerto Ricans

Language Fluency

Spanish

Margaret Simms, Ph.D.

Institute FellowUrban Institute2100 M Street, NWWashington, DC [email protected]

Dr. Simms is a nationallyrecognized expert on theeconomic well-being o Arican-

Americans. She currently leadsa research initiative exploringchallenges aced by 9 millionlow-income amilies and their 19million children. She has worked

at the Joint Center or Politicaland Economic Studies, has beena board chair o the Instituteor Womens Policy Research,and is the incoming president othe National Academy o SocialInsurance. Dr. Simms was electedto the American Academy o Artsand Sciences in 2005.

Type of Work


Social insurance

Population Focus

Arican-Americans, communities

o color

Javier Silva

Community Aairs Analyst

Federal Reserve Bank o

New York

33 Liberty Street

New York, NY 10045

212.720.5000

[email protected]

Javier Silva has conducted research

on rising debt levels o working

amilies and completed numerous

studies on credit card debt,

including a paper on debt and race

or both Demos and CFED. Mr.

Silva currently conducts communityoutreach, primarily in Puerto Rico,

where he is engaged in a wide

range o asset-building initiatives or

the Federal Reserve Bank.

Type of Work

Research, Policy

Expertise

Debt & credit, nancial products &services, savings & investment

Population Focus

Latinos, communities o color


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William Spriggs, Ph.D.

Assistant Secretary or PolicyUS Department o Labor

200 Constitution Ave., NWWashington, DC 20210202.693.5959

Dr. Spriggs is a nationallyrecognized expert who hasappeared on many nationalmedia outlets, and has givencongressional testimony onvarious national social policy

issues. Prior to his nominationto the Department o Labor in2009, Dr. Spriggs was the Chairo the Economics Department atHoward University, and has beena senior ellow at the EconomicPolicy Institute and the ExecutiveDirector o the National UrbanLeagues (NUL) Institute orOpportunity and Equality where heedited the State o Black America1999. He previously worked orthe National Commission orEmployment Policy, the SmallBusiness Administration, andthe Department o Commerceduring the Clinton Administration.Dr. Spriggs was awarded theCongressional Black CaucusChairmans Award, and hasbeen a past-board member andPresident o the National Economic

Association. He currently serves

on the boards o the NationalAcademy o Social Insurance,the Association or Public Policy

Analysis and Management, theNational Employment Law Projectand the National Advisory Councilo Corporate Voices or WorkingFamilies.

Type of Work

Research

Expertise

Social Security & social insurance

Population FocusArican-Americans

Cris Stainbrook

President

Indian Land Tenure Foundation

151 East County Road B2

Little Canada, MN 55117

651.766.8999

[email protected]

Cris Stainbrook has been actively

involved in ensuring that Indian

lands are owned and managed by

Indian people or over fteen years.

He currently serves as a board

member o the Minnesota, Grotto,

and Saint Paul Foundations, and

the Minnesota afliate o the Civil

Liberties Union. He was a ounding

member o Native Americans in

Philanthropy, and the Two Feathers

Endowment o The Saint Paul

Foundation. He previously worked

at the Northwest Area Foundation.

Type of Work

Financial Services, Community

Development

Expertise

Homeownership, land, savings &investment

Population Focus

Native Americans


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Tse Ming Tam

Vice President, CommunityInvestmentUnited Way o the Bay Area

1970 Broadway, Ste 340Oakland, CA [email protected]

Tse Ming Tam manages theFinancial Stability Partnershipportolio at the United Way othe Bay Area which ocuses onhelping households reduce debts,build income, and build and

protect assets. Previously, TseMing helped transorm the InsightCenters sector demonstrationproject into a eld o practice andcreated the National Networko Sector Partners (NNSP), anational organization that providesassistance to the sector eld,which is a regional, industry-ocused approach to workorceand economic development.Mr. Tam has also served as the

Acting Director or Chinese orArmative Action, a nonprotcivil rights advocacy organizationpromoting equal access tohousing, education, employment,contracting and public servicesthat under his tenure receivedPresident Clintons CommunityExcellence Award.

Type of Work

Financial Sector Expert,PhilanthropyExpertise

Workorce development, asset-

building, sector initiatives

Population Focus

Communities o color

Doua Thor

Executive Director

Southeast Asia Resource

Action Center

1628 16th St. NW, 3rd Floor


202.667.4690

[email protected]

Doua Thor works to advance theinterests o Cambodian, Laotian,

and Vietnamese Americans

through leadership development,

capacity building, and community

empowerment, and advocates

on the ederal level on education

and immigration issues. Ms.

Thor has worked with national

and grassroots Southeast Asian

American organizations as well as

other diverse reugee organizations

or many years, and was a New

Voices Fellow with Hmong National

Development, Inc. (HND). She

serves on the boards o the Asian &

Pacifc Islander American Vote, and

the Asian Pacifc Islander American

Scholarship Fund, and is a member

o the Nielsen Media Research

Asian Pacifc American Advisory

Council.

Type of WorkPolicy, Advocacy

Expertise

Post-secondary education &training, Social Security & socialinsurance, wealth disparities,workorce development

Population Focus

Asian Americans, Immigrants

Language Fluency

Hmong


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Fernando Torres-Gil, Ph.D.

Associate Dean o AcademicAairs, Proessor o SocialWelare and Public Policy, andDirector o the Center or PolicyResearch on AgingUniversity o Caliornia at Los

Angeles3250 Public Aairs BuildingBox 951656Los Angeles, CA [email protected]

Dr. Torres-Gil is a nationallyrecognized expert and widelypublished scholar in the elds ohealth and long-term care, thepolitics o aging, social policy,ethnicity and disability. He was

the rst Assistant Secretary orAging in the U.S. Departmento Health and Human Servicesunder President Clinton. In 1978,President Carter appointed himto the Federal Council on Aging.Dr. Torres-Gil is a Fellow o theGerontological Society o America,and the National Academy oPublic Administration, a pastPresident o the American Societyon Aging, and a member o theNational Academy o SocialInsurance.

Type of Work


Social Security & social insurance,wealth disparities

Population Focus

Latinos, Immigrants

Mahealani Wendt

Executive DirectorNative Hawaiian Legal Corporation

1164 Bishop Street, Suite 1205Honolulu, HI [email protected]

Mahealani Wendts expertiseincludes Native Hawaiian land, andnatural and traditional rights. She

has been a member o the Stateo Hawaii Judiciarys AlternativeDispute Resolution Board, andwas the rst Native Hawaiian boardmember o the Native AmericanRights Fund.

Type of Work

Policy, Law, AdvocacyExpertise

Land, Native Hawaiian rights law,dispute resolution and communitydevelopment

Population Focus

Native Hawaiians

Lillian Beadsie Woo, Ph.D.

Senior Fellow, Family EconomicSuccess Program

Annie E. Casey Foundation701 St. Paul StreetBaltimore, MD 21202

[email protected]

Dr. Woo works on issues relating tothe economic success o amilies.Previously, she was a SeniorEconomist at CFED where shemanaged the annual assessmento state economic developmentor each o the ty states andthe biennial assessment o stateasset development. Under theauspices o the Luce Scholarsprogram, Dr. Woo worked onpolicies and projects designedto create opportunities or ruralcommunities. She has also workedat the International Food PolicyResearch Institute, the WorldBank, and as a primary analyst o

Malaysias New Economic Policy.

Type of Work

Research

Expertise

Tax policy, asset-building,community economic development

Population Focus

Communities o color


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Robert Wynn

DirectorAsset Builders o America, Inc.

P.O. Box 46202Madison, WI [email protected]

Robert Wynn is a nancial expert,educator, and owner o AkamaiLLC, a business and communitydevelopment consulting rm. He isalso the director o Better Investing,a national trade association or

investment clubs, and a ormermember o the Federal ReservesConsumer Advisory Council.Mr. Wynn currently leads projectCLIMB, whose goal is to establishone hundred investment clubs inMilwaukee, as well as an alternativecredit data project unded in partby the Brookings Institution. Mr.Wynn recently launched LandRich, an ambitious eort to helpcash poor property owners toderive greater value rom their realestate holdings.

Type of Work

Financial EducationExpertise

Savings & investments, nancialservices

Population Focus

Communities o color


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Appendix A

A

Agres, Jr., Bob 2 Arredondo, Rudy 2 Augare, Shannon 3

Austin, Algernon 3

B

Baylor, Don 4Bowdler, Janis 4Bradley, Melissa 5Brooks, Joe 5

C

Calpotura , Francis 6Carr, James 6Chang, Mariko 7

Clay, Roger 7Cordova , Teresa 8

D

Danner, Robin 8Darity, William 9Dela Cruz, Melany 9Di, Zhu Xiao 10Dixon, Rebecca 10

E

Edwards, Karen 10

F

Fenelon, James 11Fiddler, Tanya 12

G

Garcia, Jose 12Glover Blackwell, Angela 13Gonzales, Moises 13Granados, Luis 14Gunn, Gena 14

H

Hamilton, Darrick 15Hao, Lingxin 15Hasegawa, Lisa 15Hicks, Sarah 16

Horne, Savi 16Hudson, Paul 16

I

Im, Hyepin 17

J

Janis, Terry 17Jayaraman, Saru 18Jones-DeWeever, Avis 18

K

Kijakazi, Kilolo 19Kutty, Nandinee 19

L

Leigh, Wilhelmina 20Lui, Meizhu 20

M

McPherson, Christine 21Meeks, Elsie 21Mensah, Lisa 22Mitchell, Thomas 22Moy, Kirsten 22

N

Nembhard, Jessica Gordon 23

O

Oliver, Melvin 23Ong, Paul 24

P

Panameo, Aracely 24Pastor, Manuel 25Pastor, Luis 25Pate, Kimberly 25

Pata, Jaqueline Johnson 26Pennick, Edward 26powell, john 26

Q

Quionez, Jose 27

R

Roberts, Michael 27Robles, Barbara 28Rockeymoore, Maya 28Rodriguez, Eric 29

S

Shanks, Trina 29Silva, Javier 29Simms, Margaret 30Soto-Class, Miguel 30Spriggs, William 31Stainbrook, Cris 31

T

Tam, Tse Ming 32 Thor, Doua 32 Torres-Gil, Fernando 33

W

Wendt, Mahealani 33Woo, Lillian 33Wynn, Robert 34


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Appendix B

Debt, Credit and Financial Services

Housing and Home Lending

Land Acquisition, Retention and Development

Small and Micro Business Development

Savings and Investments

Agres, Jr. BobAugare, Shannon

Baylor, DonBowdler, JanisBradley, MelissaCalpotura, FrancisCampa, DennisCarr, JamesChang, MarikoDanner, RobinDi, Zhu XiaoDixon, RebeccaEdwards, Karen

Fiddler, TanyaFischer, Tracy

Garcia, JoseGunn, GenaHamilton, DarrickHasegawa, LisaHorne, SaviHudson, PaulIm, HyepinKutty, NandineeMcPherson, ChristineMeeks, ElsieMensah, Lisa

Moy, KirstenOliver, Melvin

Panameo, AracelyPastor, LuisPate, KimberlyQuionez, JoseRoberts, MichaelRobles, BarbaraRodriguez, EricSilva, JavierStainbrook, CrisWynn, Robert

Bowdler, JanisBrooks, JoeCampa, DennisCarr, JamesChang, MarikoClay, RogerDanner, RobinDi, Zhu XiaoFiddler, Tanya

Garcia, JoseGranados, LuisHamilton, DarrickHasegawa, LisaHorne, SaviHudson, PaulKutty, NandineeLeigh, WilhelminaMcPherson, Christine

Mensah, LisaOliver, MelvinPanameo, AracelyPata, Jaqueline Johnsonpowell, johnRoberts, MichaelRobles, BarbaraRodriguez, Eric

Arredondo, RudyBrooks, JoeCarr, JamesEdwards, KarenFenelon, James

Gonzales, MoisesHorne, SaviJanis, TerryMcPherson, ChristineMitchell, Thomas

Oliver, MelvinPennick, EdwardRoberts, MichaelStainbrook, CrisWendt, Mahealani

Agres, Jr. BobArredondo, RudyBradley, MelissaCarr, JamesCordova, TeresaDanner, RobinDela Cruz, MelanyDixon, Rebecca

Fiddler, TanyaFischer, TraceyGranados, LuisHorne, SaviHudson, PaulJayaraman, S

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