2009-2010 Experts of

Color Directory
Economic Security and Asset Building

A Publication of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative

www.expertsofcolor.org

Helping People and Communitie s Bec ome, and Remain, Ec onomically Secure
The Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative

Unleashing the potential of all Americans to generate economic growth and lay
the foundation for American competitiveness in the global marketplace requires
closing the gap in economic security and mobility that exists between people
of color and whites. Today, while the median income for a family of color is
about 70 percent of the income of a white family, the average family of color
owns only 16 cents of wealth compared to the average white family’s
dollar. Wealth, what you own minus what you owe, allows people to start a
business, buy a home, send children to college, and ensure an economically
secure retirement. Wealth is what allows families to weather the inevitable
economic ups and downs of life, provides them opportunities for innovation
and entrepreneurship, and enables them to move up the social and economic
ladder.

The Insight Center’s Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative is educating policy
makers about the magnitude of the racial wealth gap and why it is important for
the economy as a whole to close it, providing the media with experts who can
speak on the important economic issues of the day, and developing solutions to
close America’s racial wealth gap for the next generation.

For more information visit www.racialwealthgap.org.

The Experts of Color Network (ECON)

The Experts of Color Network contains over 140 of the nation’s leading Native
American, Asian-American, African-American, Latino, and Native Hawaiian
scholars, advocates, community practitioners, policy analysts, researchers,
private sector leaders, philanthropists and government officials in the asset-
building field.

Since 2004, the Insight Center for Community Economic Development and
the Ford Foundation have brought together the leading asset-building scholars
and practitioners of color to ensure that economic development and policy
decisions create opportunity for all Americans, regardless of race or ethnicity.
Through research, convenings, and network building, the Insight Center and
the Ford Foundation have fostered a community of experts in the field who have
developed strategies for closing the racial wealth gap that persists in our society.

For more information and for the full list of members visit
www.expertsofcolor.org

The Insight Center for Community Economic Development

Founded in 1969, the Insight Center for Community Economic Development

is a national nonprofit research, consulting and legal organization dedicated to
building economic health and opportunity in vulnerable communities. We are a
leader in promoting policies and programs that foster economic security, and
this principle is the driving force behind all our work.

For more information about the Insight Center visit

www.insightcced.org

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About the Experts of Color Directory

This directory contains 74 experts of color on asset-building and economic

security to serve the needs of journalists, policymakers, researchers, and others
who want to spotlight America’s racial wealth gap and craft solutions to close it.
They can offer their expertise and share their knowledge on issues that are most
relevant to today’s economy – from housing, jobs, savings and investment to
debt, credit, social insurance and business development.

The experts in this directory were selected because they are established leaders
in their fields who can lend their voice and expertise to shape national and local
economic debates. If you find an expert with the help of this directory, please let
the expert know you found them through the directory.

Please note that this directory is only a small selection of the members in the
Experts of Color Network. The complete and most up-to-date list of experts in
our database can be found at www.expertsofcolor.org

Organization of the Directory

In order to facilitate finding the right expert for your needs, we’ve organized
our experts alphabetically and have provided their contact information, a
brief biography, a description of their work and expertise, the population they
specialize in, and their fluency in a language other than English.

In the appendices, you will find the experts categorized by their last name,
expertise, state of residence and language fluency. You will also find a list of the
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative’s publications.

Contact an Expert

If you would like us to put you in contact with an expert, please email Victor
Corral, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative Program Associate at vcorral@
insightcced.org or call us at 510.251.2600.

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 Bob Agres works to encourage Type of Work
increased investments in Research, Policy, Advocacy
sustainable and community-
based approaches to economic Expertise
development by assisting Community economic
community-based economic development, sustainable
institutions that provide direct development, small business,
economic benefits to individuals, financial services
families, and communities with
education, research and technical Population Focus
Bob Agres, Jr. assistance. Mr. Agres has helped Native Hawaiians
Executive Director to establish the Hawai`i CBED
Hawai’i Alliance for Program in the State Department
Community Based Economic of Business, Economic
Development Development and Tourism, as
well as the Hawai’i Community
677 Ala Moana Blvd. Suite 702 Loan Fund, a nationally certified
Honolulu, HI 96813 community development financial
808.550.2661 institution.
bagres@hacbed.org

Rudy Arredondo represents the Type of Work

Rudy Arredondo
President, CEO Publishers. Mr. Arredondo is a
Latino Farmers and Ranchers
National Trade Association
717 D Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004
202.628.8833
hola_5@hotmail.com
interests of small Latino farmers Policy, Advocacy
and ranchers in Washington, DC
dealing with policy, legislation and Expertise
regulatory issues. He edits and Land, minority agriculture,
publishes the National Hispanic economic development, small
Political Reporter, and is a past business, entrepreneurship
member of the Hispanic Lobbyist
Association. He has worked Population Focus
for the DNC, the UFW, and the Latinos
National Association of Hispanic
Language Fluency
recipient of the United Nations Spanish
Association (DC Chapter) Human
Rights Award, the Founders
Leadership Award of the Hispanic
Democratic Club of Montgomery
County, the Maryland Governor’s
Citation for Health, the Maryland
House of Delegates Citation for
Health Issues Leadership and
the Maryland Senate Citation for
Health Leadership.

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 Rep. Augare (Enrolled Blackfeet Type of Work
Member) is the Majority Whip of Policy maker, Financial Services
the MT House of Representatives. Expert
While directing a multi-state and
19 tribal nation regional planning Expertise
project, he helped create landmark Green jobs, asset-building,
public policy measures to economic development, small
support community infrastructure business, workforce development
development, and is credited
with creating a model of building Population Focus
Shannon J. Augare sustainable partnerships and Native Americans, residents from
Representative and Majority family asset building programs. He the State of Montana
Whip works with Gov. Schweitzer and
Montana House of US Senators Baucus and Tester on
Representatives economic development projects,
and serves on the US/ Thailand
Trade Negotiations taskforce to
PO Box 2031 ensure trade opportunities are
Browning, MT 59417 promoted for Indian Country.
406.450.5686 Rep. Augare serves on the MT
shannonjaugare@gmail.com Board of Crime Control, the Family
Economic Security Council and is
Chairman of the Law and Justice
Interim Committee. He is the vice-
chairman of the National Caucus of
Native American State Legislators
and serves on several committees
of the National Conference of State
Legislators.

Dr. Austin is an expert in the field of Type of Work

Algernon Austin, Ph.D.
Director
Race, Ethnicity, and
the Economy Program
Economic Policy Institute
1333 H Street, NW Suite 300
East Tower
Washington, DC 20005
202.775.8810
aaustin@epi.org
racial relations with a concentration Research
on Black Americans. His current
work focuses on workforce Expertise
development and income as Labor market conditions,
preconditions to building wealth. economic mobility and racial
Previously, he was Assistant discrimination, workforce
Director of Research at the development
Foundation Center and a Senior
Fellow at Demos. Dr. Austin has Population Focus
published numerous books and African-Americans
articles, including Getting It Wrong:
How Black Public Intellectuals
Are Failing Black America
(iUniverse, Inc., 2006), and
Achieving Blackness: Race, Black
Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in
the Twentieth Century (NYU Press,
2006).

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Don E. Baylor, Jr.
Senior Policy Analyst
Center for Public Policy Priorities
Don Baylor currently works on
improving public policies and
private practices to advance the
economic and social conditions of
low- and moderate-income Texans.
Previously, Mr. Baylor served as
a Legislative Director at New York
ACORN where he specialized in
such issues as the Earned Income
Tax Credit (EITC), the minimum
wage, affordable housing, and
welfare reform.
Type of Work
Research, Policy
Expertise
Workforce and economic
development, tax policy, debt &
credit, financial services
Population Focus
African-Americans, Latinos

900 Lydia Street

Austin, TX 78702
512.320.0222
baylor@cppp.org

Janis Bowdler oversees policy Type of Work

analysis, research, and advocacy Civil Rights, Advocacy
on issues related to housing,
homeownership, wealth-building Expertise
and financial services in the Homeownership, predatory lending
Latino community. Previously, she and other financial abuses, asset-
was the Project Manager for a building, debt & credit, financial
residential redevelopment project services
at the Famicos Foundation.
Population Focus
Janis Bowdler Latinos
Deputy Director
Wealth Building Policy Project
National Council of La Raza

Raul Yzaguirre Building

1126 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
202.785.1670
jbowdler@nclr.org

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Melissa L. Bradley
Senior Strategist,
Capital Access Program
Green For All
4200 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Suite #106-123
Washington, DC 20016
917.549.6092
melissa@greenforall.org
Melissa is a Senior Strategist Type of Work
for Green For All, a national Philanthropy, Researcher, Policy
organization dedicated to building Advocate Financial Sector Expert
an inclusive green economy that
will lift people out of poverty, Expertise
where she leads the Capital Green jobs, business /
Access Program that provides microenterprise, debt & credit,
human, social and financial financial education, products &
capital to entrepreneurs and services, savings & investment,
businesses to create, scale and post-secondary education training,
sustain green jobs. Melissa is the wealth disparities, workforce
Founder and former Managing development
Director of New Capitalist™, which
creates economically profitable Population Focus
and sustainable individuals, People of Color, Asian Americans,
businesses and communities, and Latinos, Native Americans, youth,
Positive Impact™ - an initiative rural populations and ex-offenders
that promotes diverse voices and
visions within independent media.
She is the Founder and President
of Reentry Strategies Institute,
the only national criminal justice
intermediary explicitly focused on
reentry, and serves as an Advisor
to the Renewal 2 Investment Fund,
and holds board positions with
Georgetown University Board of
Governors, Social Venture Network
(ex-officio), Green America (Chair),
the Creative Capital Foundation,
and the Tides Network &
Foundation. Previously, Melissa
was a VP at UBS, and a Financial
Regulatory Affairs Fellow with the
US Department of Treasury.

Joe Brooks works to foster civic Type of Work

engagement by individuals and Research, Policy, Advocacy
community organizations and
has worked to solve problems Expertise
through mobilizing people and Homeownership, land, savings &
organizations across the small investment, wealth disparities
towns of the Mississippi Delta
and in big metropolitan centers. Population Focus
He currently heads an innovative Communities of color
PolicyLink initiative to address the
Joe Brooks growing crisis facing boys and men
Vice President for Civic of color, bringing together a diverse
Engagement cross-section of constituencies
PolicyLink to address the challenges of
social and economic justice. Mr.
1438 Webster Street, Suite 303 Brooks also has had extensive
Oakland, CA 94612 experience addressing rural black
510.663.2333 landownership issues and was a
jb@policylink.org senior manager in the Berkeley,
California government focusing
on neighborhood community
development. He has served
as president of the Emergency
Land Fund, editor of the Review
of Black Political Economy,
and as a program executive for
Neighborhood and Community
Development at the San Francisco
Foundation.

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Francis Calpotura community organizer, trainer and
Founder & Executive Director
Transnational Institute for
Grassroots Research and
Action (TIGRA)
900 Alice St. #320
Oakland, CA 94612
510.338.4915
fcalpotura@transnationalaction.org
Dennis Campa
Director
City of San Antonio Department of
Community Initiatives
115 Plaza De Armas, Ste 210
San Antonio, TX 78205
210.207.7209 development, and homeless
dennis.campa@sanantonio.gov
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Francis is the Founder and Type of Work
Executive Director of TIGRA, a Community Practitioner, Policy
movement center for transnational Advocate
organizing that promotes global
justice through the economic Expertise
power of immigrants—those who Immigration, remittances, financial
send billions of dollars through education, products & services,
the wires to support the families organizing strategies
they’ve left behind. Francis has
spent twenty-five years as a Population Focus
People of color, immigrants, global
writer, and has been Co-Director migrants
at the Center for Third World
Organizing where he founded Language Fluency
innovative training and organizing Tagalog, Spanish
projects like the Minority Activist
Apprenticeship Program. He is a
founding member of the National
Organizers Alliance, Californians for
Justice, the Alliance for Philippine
Concerns, and the Asian Pacific
Environmental Network, and has
received awards, fellowships,
and recognitions for his work.
In 2006, the InterCommunity
Peace & Justice Center in Seattle
characterized him as an “Effective
Social Changer,” and in 2007,
ColorLines Magazine named him
a “Social Change Innovator to
Watch.”
Dennis Campa has more than Type of Work
36 years of experience in human Policy expert, Community
development services at the city, Practitioner, Consultant
county and state levels. Through
a network of private and public Expertise
sector partnerships, he leads Debt & credit, home ownership,
the Department of Community tax policy, financial products,
Initiatives to use its investments services and education, post-
and strategies to address issues secondary education & training,
confronting families, the elderly savings & investment, workforce
and the workforce of San Antonio. development
Dennis leads projects that include
financial economic success Population Focus
programs for working families, Residents of San Antonio,
subsidized child care, services communities of color, immigrants
for the elderly and disabled;
workforce development, youth
assistance among others. In 2009,
Dennis was selected by CFED as
an “Innovator-in-Residence” and
will be launching comprehensive
savings programs that will be
linked to loan products, education,
car ownership and housing
stabilization in innovative ways
to help individuals and families
achieve economic security.

James Carr Washington University. He has
Chief Operating Officer
National Community
Reinvestment Coalition
727 15th Street, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
202.628.8866 Impact Award from the National
jcarr@ncrc.org
Mariko Chang, Ph.D.
Author and Independent
Consultant
10 Overlook Dr.
Acton, MA 01720
978.844.3529
mchang19@gmail.com
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James Carr is a nationally Type of Work
recognized expert on housing and Policy, Research
urban policy, and the development
of innovative financial instruments Expertise
and strategies to promote Homeownership, business/
affordable lending, inner-city microenterprise, debt & credit, tax
development, and wealth creation policy, financial education, financial
for lower-income households. Mr. products & services, land, savings
Carr is also a visiting professor at & investment, wealth disparities,
Columbia University and George workforce development
been a Senior VP for the Fannie Population Focus
Mae Foundation and Assistant African-Americans, Latinos,
Director for Tax Policy with the Immigrants
U.S. Senate Budget Committee.
He is an Aspen Institute Scholar
and recipient of the Community
Organization of Black County
Officials, and has served as Vice
Chair of the Washington Urban
League, Trustee of the National
Cathedral Association, and
Member of the Board of Directors
for The Washington Ballet. Mr.
Carr is currently an Advisory
Committee member of the Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco
and the Center for Community
Development Investments.
Mariko is the author of a Type of Work
forthcoming book on the gender Research, Consulting
wealth gap titled Shortchanged:
Why Women Have Less Wealth Expertise
and What Can be Done About it Gender wealth gap, debt &
(Oxford University Press, 2009). credit, home ownership, savings
Previously, she was an Associate & investment, social insurance,
Professor of Sociology at Harvard wealth disparities
University where she published
on the use of social networks for Population Focus
gathering financial information and Women, people of color, youth,
began her work on the gender rural populations, and ex-offenders
wealth gap. In addition to her
book on the gender wealth gap,
she is creating a website devoted
to providing easily-accessible
data and fact sheets on wealth
inequality, including detailed
information on assets and debts by
gender, race, and other important
characteristics.
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Roger Clay Housing Finance Agency, and
President Vice President of the Corporation
Insight Center for Community
Economic Development
2201 Broadway, Suite 815
Oakland, CA 94612
510.251.2600
rclay@insightcced.org
Teresa Cordova, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Architecture
and Planning
University of New Mexico
2401 Central Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87121
505.277.5050
tcordova@unm.edu steering committees of community
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Roger Clay currently leads Type of Work
the Insight Center, a national Research, Policy, Community
research, consulting and legal Practice
organization dedicated to building
economic health and opportunity Expertise
in vulnerable communities. He Homeownership, business
has extensive experience in development, workforce
community development and development
public interest law. He has been
General Counsel for the California Population Focus
African-Americans, communities
of color
for Supportive Housing. He has
been a board member of the
Center for Community Change,
Vice-Chair of the Stanford Board
of Trustees, the chair of both the
American Bar Association (ABA)
Forum on Affordable Housing
and Community Development
Law and the ABA Commission on
Homelessness and Poverty. He is
currently on the National Advisory
Board for the Stanford Institute on
Research in the Social Sciences.
Mr. Clay recently received the
2009 Michael S. Scher Award
for outstanding service and
commitment to affordable housing
and community development law
from the ABA.
Teresa Cordova is an Associate Type of Work
Professor of Community and Researcher, Policy advocate
Regional Planning at the University
of New Mexico, where she Expertise
teaches community and urban Business/microenterprise, post-
development, and community secondary education & training,
economics. She is the Director community economic development
of the Resource Center for Raza
Planning which does research and Population Focus
policy analysis on issues affecting Latinos
traditional communities in New
Mexico. She works on issues
related to environmental justice
global/local relations, grassroots
activism, and community
development. She is the President
of the Rio Grande Community
Development Corporation and
sits on numerous boards and
development corporations,
planning organizations, and
campus committees.

Robin Danner Native communities in Hawaii and
President & CEO the Pacific.
Council for Native Hawaiian
Advancement
1050 Queen Street, Suite 200
Honolulu, HI 96814
800.709.CNHA (2642)
robin@hawaiiancouncil.org
William A. Darity, Ph.D.
Arts and Sciences Professor of
Public Policy Studies, Economics,
and African and African American
Studies
Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Sanford Building
Durham, NC 27708
919.612.1171
william.darity@duke.edu
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Robin Danner has over 20 years Type of Work
of public and private sector Research, Policy, Consulting
experience working with native
communities around issues of Expertise
housing and community economic Business/microenterprise,
development. Ms. Danner currently homeownership, financial
leads an organization dedicated education, financial products &
to capacity building and providing services, savings & investment,
support services to agencies and workforce development
organizations focused primarily on
Population Focus
Native Hawaiians
Dr. Darity’s research includes Type of Work
a focus on inequality by race, Researcher, Consultant
class and ethnicity, stratification
economics, the racial achievement Expertise
gap, skin shade and labor Post-secondary education &
market outcomes, and the training, wealth disparities,
social psychological effects of labor market issues, workforce
unemployment exposure. He development
previously served as director of
the Institute of African American Population Focus
Research at UNC Chapel Hill, People of Color, African
was a fellow at the National Americans, Latinos
Humanities Center, and a visiting
scholar at the Federal Reserve’s
Board of Governors. He is a past
president of the National Economic
Association and the Southern
Economic Association, and Editor
in Chief of a new edition of the
International Encyclopedia of the
Social Sciences. He has published
or edited 10 books and more
than 200 articles in professional
journals, his most recent books
include Boundaries of Clan and
Color: Transnational Comparisons
of Inter-Group Disparity (co-editor
2003) published by Routledge.
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 Melany Dela Cruz runs the Asian Type of Work
Pacific American Community Policy advocate, Community
Development Data Center, a Practitioner, Researcher
partnership of the UCLA Asian
American Studies Center, the Expertise
National Coalition for Asian Demographics, business/
Pacific American Community microenterprise, home ownership,
Development (CAPACD), and post-secondary education &
U.S. Census Bureau Census training, community economic
Information Center Program— development
Melany Dela Cruz which serves the census data
Assistant Director, needs of CAPACD members and Population Focus
Asian American Studies Center other Asian and Pacific Islander Asian Americans
University of California Los Angeles organizations who work on
housing and community economic
3230 Campbell Hall development. Melany provides
Los Angeles, CA 90095 training and technical support on
310.206.7738 gathering and using census data;
melanyd@ucla.edu develops reports on Asian and
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
subpopulation group census data;
as well as specialized reports,
data, or mapping services to meet
the specific needs of community-
based organizations.

Zhu Xiao Di’s work focuses on Type of Work

Zhu Xiao Di and Land Policies and Their
Senior Research Analyst
Joint Center for Housing Studies
Harvard University
1033 Massachusetts Avenue
5th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.7908
zhu_xiao_di@harvard.edu
wealth and income distribution Research
and growth, debt and inheritance,
housing demand and housing Expertise
policy, and international Debt & credit, homeownership,
development and public housing wealth disparities
policy. Mr. Di is a contributor
to The Oxford Handbook of Population Focus
Pensions and Retirement Income Communities of color
(Oxford University Press, 2006),
Language Fluency
Outcomes (Lincoln Institute of Chinese (Mandarin)
Land Policy, 2007). In addition
to helping produce “The State of
the Nation’s Housing” report that
is annually released by the Joint
Center, he has authored or co-
authored numerous Joint Center
publications on various issues
relating to asset-building.

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 Rebecca Dixon specializes in state
budget and tax analysis and policy
supports for low-income working
families. Ms. Dixon has experience
in community economic
development law, nonprofit law,
and low-income health care policy.
Type of Work
Policy, Research, Advocacy
Expertise
Business and microenterprise,
homeownership, tax policy,
financial products & services, post-
secondary education & training

Population Focus
Rebecca Dixon African-Americans
Policy Analyst
Enterprise Corporation
of the Delta

4 Old River Place
Jackson, MS 39202
1.866.THE.DELTA
rdixon@ecd.org

Karen Edwards, a member of Type of Work

the Choctaw tribe, was the co- Research
founder of the Center for Social
Development (CSD), and currently Expertise
consults with CSD and the Kathryn Tax policy, financial education,
M. Buder Center for American land, savings & investment, wealth
Indian Studies at Washington disparities
University in St. Louis, First Nations
Development Institute, and the First Population Focus
Nations OWEESTA Corporation. Native Hawaiians, Native
Karen Edwards Ms. Edwards has served as a Americans
President resource for IDA programs and
KME Consulting state IDA policymakers and
advocates, and has conducted
15872 294th Circle studies on EITC, IDAs, and other
Arkansas City, KS 67005 asset initiatives serving Native
314.225.9335 communities.
edwards78910@sbcglobal.net

Dr. Fenelon is a social justice Type of Work

James Fenelon, Ph.D.
Professor Native Americans through a study
California State University
San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino, CA 92407
909.537.7291
jfenelon@csusb.edu
advocate who has published Research
extensively in the areas of
American Indian sociopolitical Expertise
issues, race/ethnic conflicts, Urban community conflicts,
and social policies. In his book, indigenous community struggles,
Culturicide, Resistance, and land, post-secondary education &
Survival of the Lakota (Sioux training
Nation, 1998), he developed
theories and methods of analyzing Population Focus
the United States’ domination of Native Americans
of the Lakota society.

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Tanya Fiddler
Executive Director
Four Bands Community Fund
Four Bands Community Fund
Box 932
Eagle Butte, SD 57625
605.964.3687
tfiddler@fourbands.org
Jose Garcia Institute for Latino Policy (NILP),
Associate Director for Research
and Policy
Economic Opportunity Program
Demos
220 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
212.633.1405
jgarcia@demos.org
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Tanya Fiddler, a member of the Type of Work
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, heads Community Development Financial
a nationally recognized Native Institutions (CDFI)
CDFI that is the lead organization
on the Cheyenne River Indian Expertise
Reservation in the areas of small Small business/microenterprise
business training and lending, development, financial education,
entrepreneurship, education and products and services, savings &
financial literacy. Previously, Tanya investments, housing and home
worked as a housing specialist lending
for a reservation-based, Native
nonprofit housing development Population Focus
organization. Tanya is the Native Americans, rural, and
recipient of the Small Business underserved populations
Administration’s 2007 Minority
Business Champion award for
South Dakota and SBA Region
VIII, and the 2007 Visionary
Leader Award for Outstanding
Achievement from First Nations
Oweesta Corporation for her
contributions to the Native CDFI
industry and local asset building
efforts. In 2008, she was selected
as the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Entrepreneur Advocate of the Year
and received an Aspen Institute
Fellowship. Tanya serves on
several non-profit boards and is
the Co-Chair of the Native CDFI
Network and South Dakota Indian
Business Alliance.
Jose Garcia provides statistical Type of Work
and policy analysis on issues such Policy, Research, Advocacy
as household debt and assets.
Mr. Garcia is co-author of Up to Expertise
Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders Debt & credit, homeownership,
and Failed Economic Policies financial products & services
are Drowning Americans in Debt
(Demos and The New Press, Population Focus
2008). He was the past Vice African-Americans, Latinos
President for Policy at the National
Language Fluency
and his writings and opinions have Spanish
appeared in the Boston Globe,
BusinessWeek, USA Today, Los
Angeles Times, Daily News,
Univision and El Diario.
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 A national leader for social justice Type of Work
and equity, Ms. Blackwell seeks Policy, Research, Advocacy
to strengthen America by creating
stronger low-income communities Expertise
and communities of color. A Poverty, race and democracy,
former senior VP at the Rockefeller healthy and affordable
Foundation, she has appeared on communities, equitable
Nightline, PBS’s NOW, and is a development
frequent commentator on public
radio’s Marketplace and The Population Focus
Angela Glover Blackwell Tavis Smiley Show, and has been Communities of color
Founder & CEO featured on the opinion pages of
PolicyLink numerous national newspapers.
She is the founder of the Oakland
1438 Webster Street, Suite 303 Urban Strategies Council, where
Oakland, CA 94612 she pioneered new approaches to
510.663.2333 neighborhood revitalization, and
Ashley@policylink.org was a partner at Public Advocates,
a nationally known public interest
law firm. She is the co-author of
Searching for the Uncommon
Common Ground: New
Dimensions on Race in America
(W.W. Norton & Co., 2002), and
contributed to Ending Poverty
in America: How to Restore the
American Dream (The New Press,
2007), an anthology edited by John
Edwards. She serves on numerous
boards and co-chairs a task force
on poverty for the Center for
American Progress.

Moises Gonzales works to Type of Work

empower communities to drive Consulting, Design
and command the development
process at the community and Expertise
neighborhood level. Mr. Gonzales Urban/landscape design,
was the former Executive Director community organizing and
and founder of the Mexicano Land development, land
Education and Conservation Trust,
and is a recipient of the Loeb Population Focus
Fellowship for Sustainable Urban Latinos
Moises Gonzales Design at the Harvard Graduate
Owner, Landscape Urbanist, School of Design. Language Fluency
Urban Planner Spanish
Chimal Designs

116 Derramadera NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113
505.269.1695
carnuelero@yahoo.com

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Luis Granados development and family support
Executive Director center for low-income individuals.
Mission Economic
Development Agency
3505 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.282.3334
lgranados@medasf.org
Luis Granados works on issues Type of Work
of asset-building as they relate Community Economic
to low- and moderate-income Development
individuals, particularly Spanish-
speaking Latinos. He has led Expertise
the development of a business, Homeownership, asset-building,
homeownership, and asset small business development
development program, and
currently leads the development of Population Focus
Plaza Adelante, a one-stop asset Latinos
Language Fluency
He was a founding member of Spanish
the Mission Anti-Displacement
Coalition and the San Francisco
Homeownership Center. He serves
on the Board of Directors for the
National Association of Latino
Community Asset Builders, the
California Reinvestment Coalition,
the California Association of
Micro-Enterprise Organizations,
the Mission Asset Fund and the
Galeria de la Raza.

Gena Gunn works directly with Type of Work

Gena Gunn the community liaison for asset-
Project Director
Center for Social Development
Washington University
George Warren Brown School
of Social Work
state assets policymakers and
advocates providing technical
assistance on the development
of asset policies and inclusive
and diverse statewide asset-
building coalitions. Ms. Gunn
also directs a placed-based
community economic development
research project and serves as
building initiatives.
Research, Consulting
Expertise
Debt & credit, asset policy,
wealth disparities, economic and
workforce development
Population Focus
Communities of color

Campus Box 1196

One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
314.935.7433
ggunn@wustl.edu

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Darrick Hamilton, Ph.D. Program. Dr. Hamilton’s work
Assistant Professor has been funded by the Ford
Milano The New School for
Management and Urban Policy
72 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
212.229.5400 x1514
hamiltod@newschool.edu
Dr. Hamilton works on issues Type of Work
of racial and ethnic inequality in Research
economic and health outcomes,
wealth disparities, homeownership, Expertise
and labor market outcomes. He Wealth disparities,
is an affiliate scholar at the Center homeownership, workforce
for American Progress, and a co- development, health
Associate Director of the American
Economic Association Summer Population Focus
Research and Minority Scholarship African-Americans
Foundation, the National Institutes
of Health, the National Science
Foundation and the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation. He has
been published in the American
Economics Review, the Review of
Black Political Economy, among
others.

Dr. Hao’s research areas include Type of Work

Lingxin Hao, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
410.516.4022
hao@jhu.edu
immigration, social inequality, Research, Policy
family and public policy, social
demography, quantitative methods, Expertise
and advanced statistics. She is Wealth disparities, immigration,
currently studying the impact of health, education
immigration on inter-generational
mobility and health, and the impact Population Focus
of public schools on educational Communities of Color, Immigrants
and economic achievement of
students from disadvantaged Language Fluency
backgrounds. Previously, Dr. Hao Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese)
was a post-doctoral fellow and
a consultant in the Labor and
Population Program at the RAND
Corporation. She has published
numerous journal articles, book
chapters and has written three
books, including Color Lines,
Country Lines: Race, Immigration,
and Wealth Stratification in
America (Russell Sage Foundation,
2007).

Lisa Hasegawa is a powerful Type of Work

Lisa Hasegawa
Executive Director currently serves on the Board of
National Coalition for Asian
Pacific American Community
Development (CAPACD)
voice for the unique community
development needs of Asian
American and Pacific Islander
(AAPI) communities. Ms.
Hasegawa has served as the
Community Liaison for the
White House Initiative on Asian
Americans Pacific Islanders, the
Chair for the National Council
for Asian Pacific Americans, and
the National Low Income Housing
Coalition.
Policy, Advocacy
Expertise
Debt & credit, homeownership,
financial education, financial
products & services, wealth
disparities, workforce development
Population Focus
Asians, Native Hawaiians, Pacific
Islanders, Immigrants

1628 16th Street, NW - 4th Floor

Washington, DC 20009
202.223.2442
lisa@nationalcapacd.org

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Sarah Hicks, Ph.D. guidance from tribal leadership
Director
National Congress of American
Indians (NCAI)
Policy Research Center
1516 P Street NW,
Washington DC 20005
202.466.7767
shicks@ncai.org
Savi Horne farmers to continue to work on the
Executive Director land. She specializes in minority
Land Loss Prevention Project
411 West Chapel Hill St.
Suite 1104
Durham, NC 27701
800.672.5839
savi@landloss.org
Paul Hudson Redevelopment Agency, the
Chairman and CEO Orthopedic Hospital Foundation,
Broadway Federal Bank
4800 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90010
323.634.1700
pchudson@broadwayfederalbank.
com
16
Sarah Hicks is an enrolled member Type of Work
of the Native Village of Ouzinkie. Research, Policy, Advocacy
Ms. Hicks previously worked for
the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She Expertise
is a welfare reform expert and the Social insurance, savings &
founding director of NCAI’s Policy investments
Research Center which operates
with a tribally-driven, capacity- Population Focus
building research agenda for the Native Americans
benefit of tribal communities. With
and NCAI, Sarah sets the strategic
direction for the Policy Research
Center and oversees the Center’s
work. She also serves as principal
investigator on a number of the
Center’s projects.
Savi Horne leads a public interest Type of Work
law firm created by the North Policy, Law, Consulting
Carolina Association of Black
Lawyers in response to the decline Expertise
in family farmers and low-income Land, agricultural policy, minority
and minority landowners. In this farmers, business/microenterprise,
capacity, she develops agriculture debt & credit, homeownership
policy initiatives at regional and
federal levels that encourage Population Focus
minority and limited-resource African-Americans
agricultural issues, sustainable
agriculture, food systems policy, and
environmental justice policy. Ms.
Horne has received awards from
the Southern Region Sustainable
Research & Education Program,
and the Environmental Protection
Agency.
Paul Hudson is an expert on Type of Work
community based financial Financial Services, Community
services. He heads Broadway Development
Federal Bank, the 4th largest
Black-owned bank in the Expertise
country, with a 60+ year history Business/microenterprise,
of service to underserved urban homeownership, financial
communities. Mr. Hudson is education, financial products &
active on many boards including services, savings & investment
the Los Angeles Community
Population Focus
Communities of color
the Red Cross, the Southern
California Counseling Center, and
chairs the Board of Community
Build, Inc.
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Hyepin Im Ms. Im has organized a faith-
President & CEO based conference in conjunction
Korean Churches for Community
Development
3550 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 922
Los Angeles, CA 90010
213.985.1500
hyepin@gmail.com
Hyepin Im helps faith-based and Type of Work
community based organizations Community Practice, Research,
build capacity in economic Consulting
development. She has partnered
with the FDIC and Freddie Expertise
Mac to develop a Korean Homeownership, financial
curriculum in financial literacy and education, savings & investment,
homeownership, and implemented workforce and economic
a $5 million U.S. Dept. of Labor development
workforce development program.
Population Focus
Asian Americans, Immigrants
with the White House, and the
U.S. Department of Housing and Language Fluency
Urban Development, and has also Korean
developed a national database and
research study on Asian American
churches. Her work and opinions
have appeared in numerous
national media outlets.

Terry Janis, an Oglala Lakota, Type of Work

works extensively on Native Community Practitioner
American and international
indigenous education, human Expertise
rights, and native land ownership. Tribal land ownership, education,
At the Northwest Area Foundation, law, indigenous rights, rural
he helped to design and implement development
a rural leadership program,
Horizons. Currently, Mr. Janis sits Population Focus
on the board of the Two Feathers Native Americans
Terry Janis Endowment of The Saint Paul
Program Officer Foundation and is a member of
Indian Land Tenure Foundation Native Americans in Philanthropy,
the National Indian Education
151 East County Road B2 Association, the National Congress
Little Canada, MN 55117 of American Indians, and the State
651.766.8999 Bar of Arizona.
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Saru Jayaraman works to win workplace justice
Co-Director campaigns, and has launched a
Restaurant Opportunities Center,
United (ROC-U)
275 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2300
New York, NY 10001
917.226.3713
saru@rocunited.org
Avis Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D. the Post-Katrina Realities of the
Director
Research, Public Policy and
Information Center for African
American Women,
National Council of Negro Women
633 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20004
202.737.0120
jones-deweever@ncnw.org
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After 9/11, together with workers Type of Work
from Windows on the World, Policy, Advocacy, Research
the restaurant at the top of
the World Trade Center, Saru Expertise
Jayaraman founded and ran an Business/microenterprise,
immigrant workers’ organizing workforce and economic
center for restaurant workers. At development, wealth disparities,
ROC-U, Ms. Jayaraman conducts domestic and international labor
research and policy work related
to the restaurant industry, Population Focus
Communities of color, Immigrants
cooperatively-owned restaurant. Language Fluency
She is an Assistant Professor of Spanish
Public Interest Law at Brooklyn
College, and previously created
and developed The Alliance For
Justice, a new Law and Organizing
Program at the Workplace Project,
a Latino immigrant workers’
rights center. Ms. Jayaraman has
appeared on many national media
outlets and has been recognized
for her work by President Bill
Clinton, Crain’s Business Weekly,
the Rockefeller Foundation, Mayor
Michael Bloomberg and the
Harvard Foundation.
Dr. Jones-DeWeever is an expert Type of Work
on poverty in urban communities, Research, Policy, Advocacy
inequality of educational
opportunity and the impact of Expertise
welfare reform on women and Health, education, economic
communities of color. She is the empowerment, post-secondary
author of numerous publications education & training, wealth
on policy issues affecting women disparities
of color, including Women in the
Wake of the Storm: Examining Population Focus
Women, African-Americans,
Women of New Orleans and the communities of color
Gulf Coast; Saving Ourselves:
African American Women and
the HIV/AIDS Crisis; Resilient and
Reaching for More: Challenges
and Benefits of Higher Education
for Welfare Recipients; and the
forthcoming, Black Girls in the City
of New York: Quiet Strength, Bold
Resilience. She is a highly sought-
after political commentator whose
policy perspectives have been
featured on CNN, NPR, the New
York Times, and the Washington
Post.
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Kilolo Kijakazi, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Ford Foundation
320 East 43rd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10017
212.573.5000
k.kijakazi@fordfound.org
Dr. Kijakazi works in the Type of Work
Ford Foundation’s Economic Policy, Research
Development Unit in the Asset-
building and Community Expertise
Development Program. She is Social insurance & Social Security,
responsible for taking to scale savings & investments, pensions
the work on facilitating savings
and investments for low-income Population Focus
families and individuals, and Communities of color
ensuring that these asset-building
strategies are culturally relevant
to the communities they impact.
Previously, Dr. Kijakazi worked at
the Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities where she specialized in
Social Security, provided testimony
before Congress, and served as
a panelist at the White House
Conference on Social Security
under the Clinton Administration.
Prior to that, she worked at the
US Department of Agriculture,
Food and Nutrition Service where
she designed and monitored
evaluations of the Food Stamp
Program, and at the National
Urban League. She is the author of
many scholarly articles published
by the National Academy of Social
Insurance, the Gerontological
Society and others. In 1997 she
published a book titled, African-
American Economic Development
and Small Business Ownership
(Garland Publishing, 1997).

Dr. Kutty is a policy consultant who Type of Work

Nandinee K. Kutty, Ph.D.
Independent Consultant
1040 N. Quincy St. Apt. 411
Arlington, VA 22201
703.465.8774
nndkutty@aol.com
specializes in elderly household
finances and Social Security. She
is particularly interested in wealth/
asset accumulation strategies
through housing and financial
investments. Dr. Kutty’s research
has been published in peer-
reviewed journals of economics
and public policy. She is the
co-editor and contributor for
Segregation: The Rising Costs
for America (Routledge, 2008),
and previously taught at Cornell
University.
Research, Policy
Expertise
Homeownership, business/
microenterprise, tax policy,
financial education, financial
products & services, savings &
investment, social insurance
Population Focus
Communities of color, Immigrants
Language Fluency
Hindi

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Wilhelmina Leigh, Ph.D. Urban Development, the Urban
Senior Research Associate
Joint Center for Political and
Economic Studies
1090 Vermont Ave., NW,
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
202.789.3500
wleigh@jointcenter.org
Meizhu Lui union in Massachusetts. Her work
Director
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
Initiative Women’s Fund, the Union of
Insight Center for Community
Economic Development
2201 Broadway, Suite 815
Oakland, CA 94612
510.251.2600
mlui@insightcced.org
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Dr. Leigh works in the areas of Type of Work
health policy, housing policy, Research
income security/asset building, and
labor market issues. Previously, Expertise
she was a principal analyst at Homeownership, Social Security &
the U.S. Congressional Budget social insurance, wealth disparities
Office, and has held positions at
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Population Focus
U.S. Department of Labor, the Communities of color
U.S. Department of Housing and
Institute, and the National Urban
League. Dr. Leigh has taught at
Georgetown, Harvard, and Howard
universities, and the University of
Virginia. She is an elected member
of the National Academy of Social
Insurance.
For over 30 years, Meizhu Lui has Type of Work
dedicated herself to economic Research, Policy, Advocacy
justice, working as an educator,
organizer, and academic scholar. Expertise
She currently heads an initiative Community, economic, and
to close the racial wealth gap. workforce development, wealth
Previously Ms. Lui headed United disparities, tax policy
for a Fair Economy, and was the
first Asian American to become Population Focus
the elected President of a local Communities of color
for racial and gender equality has
been recognized by the Boston
Minority Neighborhoods, and
the Labor Studies Program at
the University of Massachusetts
in Boston. She is a Trustee of
the Hyams Foundation and was
selected for the 2007 Barr Fellows
Program. Ms. Lui also served on
the Center for American Progress
National Initiative to End Poverty,
and co-authored The Color of
Wealth: The Story Behind the
US Racial Wealth Divide (The
New Press, 2006). Meizhu has
appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, and
her op-eds have been published
by the Washington Post and the
San Francisco Chronicle. She is a
member of Politico’s Arena and a
“Braintruster”of the New Deal 2.0
Project.
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Christine McPherson tribe. She has also served on the
Managing Director
Indian Child Welfare Program
Casey Family Programs
1300 Dexter Ave. North, Floor 3
Seattle, WA 98109
206.270.4910
cmcpherson@casey.org
Elsie Meeks
Director of the South Dakota
USDA Rural Development Office
USDA Rural Development
State Office
200 4th Street SW
Federal Building, Room 210
Huron, SD 57350
605.352.1100
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Christine McPherson is a member Type of Work
of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe Research, Policy
of Chippewa Indians who has
advocated for services for children Expertise
on tribal, state, and national levels Debt & credit, homeownership,
for many years. She previously land, post-secondary education &
served as the Division Director training
of Anishnabek Community and
Family Services, a comprehensive Population Focus
social services agency for the Native Americans
Michigan Governor’s Task Force on
Children’s Justice.
Elsie Meeks has over 20 years Type of Work
of experience working for Research, Advocacy, Community
Native community economic Development Financial Institutions
development. In February 2009, (CDFIs)
Elsie Meeks was nominated to
serve as the Director of the USDA Expertise
Rural Development Office in Savings & investments, financial
South Dakota, her confirmation services, land
is pending. Ms. Meeks serves
as chairperson of the Lakota Population Focus
Funds and is a board member Native Americans, rural
of the Corporation for Enterprise populations
Development, Northwest
Area Foundation, Council on
Foundations and the Oglala Sioux
Tribe Partnership for Housing. She
is an International Advisory Council
member of Native Nations Institute
and is on the Board of Governors
for the Honoring Nations program
of the Harvard Project on American
Indian Economic Development.
She completed a six-year term
on the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights and was the first
Native American to serve on the
Commission. Ms. Meeks is the
current chairperson for the Native
Financial Education Coalition.
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Lisa Mensah Ms. Mensah has served as a
Executive Director
Initiative on Financial Security
The Aspen Institute
271 Madison Avenue, Suite 804
New York, NY 10016
212.895.8070
lisa.mensah@aspeninstitute.org
Lisa Mensah is an expert in using Type of Work
financial tools to improve the Policy, Research
economic security of the working
poor, and works to encourage Expertise
personal savings for low- and Homeownership, financial
middle-income Americans. education, pension, savings &
She leads an advisory board investment
to explore financial products
that build wealth from birth to Population Focus
retirement for working families. Communities of color
Deputy Director for the Economic
Development Unit, and the Rural
Poverty and Resources program
at the Ford Foundation, working
on microfinance and women’s
economic development, and was
the leading national funder of
individual development accounts
to community organizations. Prior
to her work at Ford, she worked
in the Corporate Finance Analysis
Division of Citibank.

Thomas Mitchell is a national Type of Work

Thomas Mitchell
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin Law School
expert on the issue of African-
American landownership, and
is working with the National
Conference of Commissioners and
the Ford Foundation on Uniform
State Laws on drafting the Uniform
Tenancy in Common Partition
Act. He serves on the American
Bar Association’s Property
Preservation Task Force and is
the Vice-President of the board of
Farmers’ Legal Action Group.
Research, Policy
Expertise
Rural community development
and legal issues governing the
ownership and retention of
property in poor and minority
communities in rural America
Population Focus
African-Americans

975 Bascom Mall

Madison, WI 53706
608.890.1237
tmitchell@wisc.edu

Kirsten Moy heads the Aspen Type of Work

Kirsten Moy She was a distinguished visitor
Director
Economic Opportunities Program
The Aspen Institute
One Dupont Circle, NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
202.736.5800
kirsten.moy@aspeninstitute.org
Institute’s Economic Opportunities
Program, which promotes learning
about highly promising poverty
alleviation, self-employment,
and employment strategies. Ms.
Moy previously led a national
research project at the Community
Development Innovation and
Infrastructure Initiative (CDIII).
with the Human and Community
Development program of the John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, and served as
the Director of the Community
Development Financial Institutions
Fund (CDFI) at the US Department
of Treasury under President
Clinton.
Research, Policy
Expertise
Asset building for low-income
consumers, community
development finance, socially
responsible investing, scale-up of
community-based organizations
and initiatives
Population Focus
Underserved and under-banked
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Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
African American
Studies Department
John Jay College, CUNY
445 West 59th St., Rm. 3217N
New York, NY 10009
jgordonnembhard@gmail.com
Melvin Oliver, Ph.D.
Dean of Social Sciences
and Professor White Wealth: A New Perspective
University of California at Santa
Barbara
College of Letters and Science
Cheadle Hall, Room 2217
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805.893.8354
crobbins@ltsc.ucsb.edu
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Jessica Gordon Nembhard is a Type of Work
political economist, policy analyst, Research, Teaching, Consulting
and an educator. Her research
focuses on community and asset Expertise
based economic development Community economic
and policy; democratic community development and asset building,
economics, cooperative cooperative businesses,
economics and worker ownership; microenterprise, post-secondary
and wealth building in communities education & training, workforce
of color. She is a specialist development
in developing and analyzing
indicators of asset building Population Focus
through cooperative ownership. African-Americans, low-income
She co-edited the volume Wealth and urban communities
Accumulation and Communities
of Color in the U.S.: Current
Issues with Ngina Chiteji (Univ.
of Michigan Press, 2006); and is
completing a book on the history
of African- American cooperatives.
Dr. Gordon Nembhard is a Master
Teacher for Howard University’s
Summer Institute on Race and
Wealth, and a visiting scholar
with the Howard Economics
Department’s Center on Race and
Wealth. She is a board member of
the National Economic Association,
The Ecological Democracy Institute
of North American and Grassroots
Economic Organizing Newsletter,
the Black Enterprise Magazine
Board of Economists and the
editorial board of the journal
Feminist Economics.
Dr. Oliver is a nationally recognized Type of Work
expert on racial/urban inequality Research, Policy
and poverty who has published
extensively on racial wealth Expertise
disparities. Previously, he was Vice Racial/urban inequality
President of the Asset-building and and poverty, debt & credit,
Community Development Program homeownership, land, pension,
at the Ford Foundation, and a savings & investment, wealth
UCLA faculty member. Dr. Oliver disparities
has been a contributor to many
books and scholarly journals, and Population Focus
is the co-author of Black Wealth/ African-Americans, communities
of color
on Racial Inequality (Routledge,
1997), an award-winning and now
classic exploration of wealth, race,
and inequality. He has received
many prestigious awards for his
work, and currently serves on
the board of the Urban Institute,
DBASSE, University of Michigan’s
National Poverty Center, PolicyLink
and the McCune Foundation.
He is a Sociological Research
Association member and has
served on the Council of the
American Sociological Association.
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Paul Ong, Ph.D.
Professor of Urban Planning,
Social Welfare and Asian American
Studies
University of California at Los
Angeles
3250 School of Public Affairs
Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095
310.614.2458
pmong@ucla.edu minority” by showing they are just
Aracely Panameño
Director, Latino Affairs
Center for Responsible Lending
910 17th St., NW Suite 500
Washington, DC 20006
202.349.1875
aracely.panameno@
responsiblelending.org media commentator, reporter and
24
Dr. Ong has done research on the Type of Work
labor market status of minorities Researcher
and immigrants, displaced high-
tech workers, work and welfare, Expertise
and transportation access. He Business/microenterprise, home
is currently studying the effects ownership, post-secondary
of neighborhood economies on education & training, wealth
welfare and work, community disparities, workforce development
economic development in minority
communities, and the labor market Population Focus
for healthcare workers. Previously, Asian Americans, Immigrants,
Dr. Ong studied the impact of Native Hawaiians
immigration on the employment
status of young African-
Americans, and the influence of car
ownership and subsidized housing
on welfare usage. He co-authored
a widely reported 1994 study on
Asian Pacific Americans, which
challenged the popular stereotype
of Asians as the country’s “model
as likely as other groups to be
impoverished. Dr. Ong has served
as an advisor to the U.S. Bureau
of the Census, the California
Department of Social Services, the
state Department of Employment
Development and the Wellness
Foundation and the South Coast
Air Quality Management District.
Aracely Panameño is in charge Type of Work
of engaging with the Latino Policy, Financial Sector
community at the Center
for Responsible Lending, an Expertise
organization dedicated to Debt & credit, homeownership,
protecting homeownership financial products & services,
and family wealth by working wealth disparities, immigration
to eliminate abusive financial
practices. Aracely is a Latina Population Focus
leader, activist, and spokesperson Latinos, immigrants, people of
at the domestic and international color
level. For more than 20 years,
Aracely has worked on Latina Language Fluency
women’s health issues, Spanish
migrant workers, education,
immigration, and economic
justice. She is a published author,
accomplished public speaker,
columnist, strategic grassroots
organizer and coalition builder.
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Manuel Pastor, Ph.D. of the Commission on Regions
Professor of Geography and
American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California
College of Letters, Arts
and Sciences
Department of Geography
Kaprielian Hall (KAP)
3620 South Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089
213.740.5604
mpastor@college.usc.edu
Luis Pastor been awarded the Herb Wegner
CEO Award for outstanding organization,
Latino Community Credit Union
201 W. Main Street, Suite B01
Durham, NC 27701
919.688.9270
luis@cooperativalatina.org
Kimberly Pate
Vice President for Strategic
Partnerships
CFED
1200 G Street NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
202.408.9788
kpate@cfed.org
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Dr. Pastor is a nationally Type of Work
recognized expert on issues of Policy, Research
demographic change, economic
inequality, and community Expertise
empowerment whose opinion Urban poverty, regional
pieces have been published in the development, labor markets and
LA Times, the San Jose Mercury low-wage workers
News, the Los Angeles Business
Journal, and the Christian Science Population Focus
Monitor. He served as a member Latinos
appointed by California’s Speaker
of the State Assembly, and was
awarded a Civic Entrepreneur of
the Year award from the California
Center for Regional Leadership.
He currently sits on the board
of the Economic Policy Institute,
the Los Angeles Alliance for a
New Economy and the Center for
Community Change.
Luis Pastor oversees one of the Type of Work
fastest growing community-based Financial Services
and member-owned nonprofit
financial institutions in the U.S. that Expertise
provides protection of financial Community and economic
assets, access to loans, financial development, financial products
independence and financial & services, financial education,
education. His innovative and savings & investments
community-based financial services
are nationally recognized and have Population Focus
Latinos
the Dora Maxwell Award for social Language Fluency
responsibility, the Louis Herring Spanish
Award for Philosophy in Action, the
Wachovia NEXT Award, and the
Credit Union Excellence in Lending
Award.
Kimberly Pate specializes in Type of Work
representing the interests of Financial Services, Policy
low-income women, families and
disadvantaged communities. Expertise
Previously, Ms. Pate was the Deputy Business development, savings
Director of National Projects for & investments, microenterprise,
Wider Opportunities for Women entrepreneurship, tax policy
(WOW), a women’s employment
organization that is recognized Population Focus
nationally for its skills training Native Americans, women
models, technical assistance and
advocacy for women workers.
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 Jaqueline Johnson Pata currently Type of Work
heads the oldest and largest Policy, Tribal Government,
tribal government organization in Advocacy
the United States. Prior to joining
NCAI, Ms. Johnson served as Expertise
deputy assistant secretary for Homeownership, housing policy,
Native American programs of the land
U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development. She is the Population Focus
previous Executive Director of the Native Americans
Jaqueline Johnson Pata Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing
Executive Director Authority in Juneau, Alaska, and
National Congress of American a former vice chair of the Alaska
Indians (NCAI) Housing Finance Corporation. Ms.
Johnson Pata is a member of the
1516 P Street NW, Raven/Sockeye clan of the Tlingit
Washington DC 20005 tribe.
202.466.7767
jjohnson@ncai.org

Edward Pennick works to provide Type of Work

self-help economic opportunities Cooperatives, Community
and hope for many low-income Development
communities across the South,
through the only organization Expertise
in the Southeast that has as its Land, agriculture, and minority
primary objectives the retention farmer issues in the American
of Black owned land and the use South
of cooperatives for land-based
economic development. He is an Population Focus
Edward Pennick expert with extensive experience African-Americans
Director on various land, business,
Land Assistance Fund rural, and agricultural issues as
Federation of Southern they relate to minority farmers,
Cooperatives specifically Black farmers, and has
testified before Congress on behalf
2769 Church Street of a coalition of minority farmers on
East Point, GA 30344 the 2008 Farm Bill.
404.765.0991
lafund@mindspring.com

john powell is an internationally Type of Work

recognized authority in the areas of Research, Policy
civil rights, civil liberties, and issues
relating to race, ethnicity, poverty Expertise
and the law. He has published Homeownership, civil rights,
extensively on the issues of civil liberties, wealth disparities,
structural racism, racial justice and business development
regionalism, concentrated poverty
and urban sprawl, opportunity Population Focus
based housing, voting rights, and African-Americans, communities
john a. powell affirmative action. Previously, Mr. of color
Executive Director powell founded and directed the
The Kirwan Institute for the Study Institute on Race and Poverty at
of Race and Ethnicity the University of Minnesota. He has
The Ohio State University also served as Director of Legal
Services in Miami, Florida and was
433 Mendenhall Laboratories the National Legal Director of the
125 S. Oval Mall ACLU.
Columbus, OH 43210
614.688.5429
carter647@osu.edu

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Jose Quiñonez and as a lobbyist for various
Executive Director nonprofit organizations advocating
Mission Asset Fund
1500 South Van Ness Ave,
Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.738.2559
jose@missionassetfund.org
Michael E. Roberts
President Native communities. Previously, Mr.
First Nations Development
Institute
703 3rd Avenue, Suite B
Longmont, CO 80501
303.774.7836
mroberts@firstnations.org
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Jose Quiñonez currently heads Type of Work
an organization which seeks Policy, Community Practitioner
to expand access to financial
services, savings and investment Expertise
opportunities for residents of Financial products & services,
San Francisco’s Mission District, savings & investment, wealth
a primarily working class, Latino disparities
community. Mr. Quiñonez
previously worked in the Office of Population Focus
Congressman Ruben Hinojosa, Latinos, Immigrants
Language Fluency
on an array of issues including Spanish
immigration, hunger, and welfare.
He has also worked at the Center
for Responsible Lending, as well
as for the Asset Policy Initiative in
California.
Michael E. Roberts is an enrolled Type of Work
member of the Central Council of Native Assets
Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of
Alaska. He is currently working to Expertise
restore Native control and culturally- Business/microenterprise, debt &
compatible stewardship of the credit, homeownership, tax policy,
assets of Native people including land, savings & investment
land, human potential, cultural
heritage, and natural resources, Population Focus
and to establish new assets for Native Americans
ensuring the long-term vitality of
Roberts worked in venture capital
and private equity. He currently
serves on the Advisory Council
of the Center for Native American
Public Radio, on the National
Advisory Committee for the National
Center for Family Philanthropy, as
well as the Advisory Committee for
the Lakota Fund, Indian Country’s
first community development
financial institution. Mr. Roberts is a
past board member and treasurer
of the Association for Enterprise
Opportunity.
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Barbara Robles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Social Work and the
National Center for Community
Development and Civil Rights,
College of Public Programs,
Arizona State University
411 N. Central Ave., Suite 800
Phoenix, AZ 85004
602.496.0074
barbara.robles@asu.edu
Maya Rockeymoore, Ph.D. previously a VP for Research and
Founder and President Programs at the Congressional
Global Policy Solutions, LLC
1830 11th Street, NW Suite 1
Washington, DC 20001
202.265.5111
maya@globalpolicysolutions.com
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Dr. Robles is a nationally recognized Type of Work
expert on Latino small and micro Research
business, Latino family and
community financial needs and Expertise
behaviors, and asset-building Business/microenterprise, debt
policies. She has published & credit, homeownership, tax
extensively and co-authored The policy, financial education, financial
Color Wealth: The Story Behind products & services, post-
the Racial Wealth Divide (The secondary education & training,
New Press, 2006). Her work wealth disparities
has been funded by the Annie E.
Casey Foundation, State Farm Population Focus
Foundations, the Kauffman Latinos, Immigrants
Foundation, and the Filene
Research Institute. Language Fluency
Spanish
Dr. Rockeymoore is a respected Type of Work
policy analyst, researcher, and Policy
advocate who works with non-
profit organizations, foundations, Expertise
governmental entities, and socially- Business/microenterprise,
responsible corporations to pension, Social Security & social
develop creative and measurable insurance, health
change strategies to help solve
pressing social, economic, and Population Focus
environmental challenges. She was Communities of color
Black Caucus Foundation where
she founded the Center for Policy
Analysis and Research (CPAR).
Dr. Rockeymoore has been a
Senior Resident Scholar at the
National Urban League, Chief Of
Staff to Congressman Charles
Rangel (D-NY), and has served as
Professional Staff on the House
Ways and Means Committee. She
serves on the board of the National
Committee to Preserve Social
Security and Medicare, and has
appeared on numerous national
media outlets. She is the author
of The Political Action Handbook:
A How to Guide for the Hip Hop
Generation (R&A Press, 2004),
and co-editor of Strengthening
Community: Social Insurance in
a Diverse America (Brookings
Institution Press, 2004), and a
2004 Aspen Institute Henry Crown
Fellow.
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Eric Rodriguez has written or contributed to
Deputy Vice President
Office of Research, Advocacy
and Legislation
National Council of La Raza
Raul Yzaguirre Building
1126 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
202.785.1670
erodriguez@nclr.org
Trina Shanks, Ph.D. the impact of matched savings
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734.764.7411
trwilli@umich.edu Development Accounts to its work
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Eric Rodriguez is responsible Type of Work
for providing strategic guidance Policy, Research, Advocacy
for public policy, legislative, and
advocacy activities related to Expertise
economic mobility and financial Tax policy, social insurance,
security policy issues. This work homeownership, financial services,
involves coverage of a wide range and Social Security
of issues including federal budget,
tax, banking, homeownership, Population Focus
and Social Security reform. He Latinos
publications on economic issues
and their impact on low-income
Latinos, and has been cited in both
the English and Spanish media. He
has testified before Congress on
Social Security reform, mortgage
lending, welfare reform, and other
major issues, and is a current
member of the National Academy
of Social Insurance Security and
a past board member of the
Coalition on Human Needs.
Dr. Shanks is an expert on the Type of Work
relationship between assets, Research
poverty and children’s well-being;
public policy for families; social and Expertise
economic development, particularly Savings & investment, wealth
in urban communities. Dr. Shanks disparities
is the Co-Principal Investigator for
SEED Impact Assessment (Saving Population Focus
for Education, Entrepreneurship, African-Americans
and Downpayment) to assess
Language Fluency
accounts targeted toward saving Spanish
for children’s education. Prior to
joining academia, Dr. Shanks was
an Executive Director for Christian
Community Services, Inc., where
she initiated its family mentoring
program and introduced Individual
with public housing residents. She’s
also been a consultant for Stand for
Children, a Children’s Defense Fund
affiliate.
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Javier Silva the Federal Reserve Bank.
Community Affairs Analyst
Federal Reserve Bank of
New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045
212.720.5000
javier.silva@ny.frb.org
Margaret Simms, Ph.D.
Institute Fellow
Urban Institute
2100 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
202.833.7200
msimms@urban.org
Miguel Soto-Class
Executive Director Conservation Trust of Puerto
Center for the New Economy
273 Ponce De Leon, Ste. 1403
San Juan, PR
787.622.1120
mike@grupocne.org was published by the Brookings
30
Javier Silva has conducted research Type of Work
on rising debt levels of working Research, Policy
families and completed numerous
studies on credit card debt, Expertise
including a paper on debt and race Debt & credit, financial products &
for both Demos and CFED. Mr. services, savings & investment
Silva currently conducts community
outreach, primarily in Puerto Rico, Population Focus
where he is engaged in a wide Latinos, communities of color
range of asset-building initiatives for
Dr. Simms is a nationally Type of Work
recognized expert on the Research, Policy
economic well-being of African-
Americans. She currently leads Expertise
a research initiative exploring Social insurance
challenges faced by 9 million
low-income families and their 19 Population Focus
million children. She has worked African-Americans, communities
at the Joint Center for Political of color
and Economic Studies, has been
a board chair of the Institute
for Women’s Policy Research,
and is the incoming president of
the National Academy of Social
Insurance. Dr. Simms was elected
to the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences in 2005.
Miguel Soto-Class has had a Type of Work
wide range of experience in both Research, Policy
the private and public sectors,
and founded Puerto Rico’s first Expertise
think-tank to promote innovative Tax policy, savings & investment
economic development strategies.
He serves on the Board of Population Focus
Directors for the University of Latinos, Puerto Ricans
Puerto Rico Press, the Baldwin
School of Puerto Rico, and Language Fluency
the Advisory Council for the Spanish
Rico. Mr. Soto-Class has been a
columnist for El Nuevo Día, Puerto
Rico’s largest circulation daily,
and his first book, The Economy
of Puerto Rico: Restoring Growth,
Institution in 2006.
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William Spriggs, Ph.D.
Assistant Secretary for Policy
US Department of Labor
200 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20210
202.693.5959
Cris Stainbrook Philanthropy, and the Two Feathers
President Endowment of The Saint Paul
Indian Land Tenure Foundation
151 East County Road B2
Little Canada, MN 55117
651.766.8999
cstainbrook@indianlandtenure.org
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Dr. Spriggs is a nationally Type of Work
recognized expert who has Research
appeared on many national
media outlets, and has given Expertise
congressional testimony on Social Security & social insurance
various national social policy
issues. Prior to his nomination Population Focus
to the Department of Labor in African-Americans
2009, Dr. Spriggs was the Chair
of the Economics Department at
Howard University, and has been
a senior fellow at the Economic
Policy Institute and the Executive
Director of the National Urban
League’s (NUL) Institute for
Opportunity and Equality where he
edited the State of Black America
1999. He previously worked for
the National Commission for
Employment Policy, the Small
Business Administration, and
the Department of Commerce
during the Clinton Administration.
Dr. Spriggs was awarded the
Congressional Black Caucus
Chairman’s Award, and has
been a past-board member and
President of the National Economic
Association. He currently serves
on the boards of the National
Academy of Social Insurance,
the Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management, the
National Employment Law Project
and the National Advisory Council
of Corporate Voices for Working
Families.
Cris Stainbrook has been actively Type of Work
involved in ensuring that Indian Financial Services, Community
lands are owned and managed by Development
Indian people for over fifteen years.
He currently serves as a board Expertise
member of the Minnesota, Grotto, Homeownership, land, savings &
and Saint Paul Foundations, and investment
the Minnesota affiliate of the Civil
Liberties Union. He was a founding Population Focus
member of Native Americans in Native Americans
Foundation. He previously worked
at the Northwest Area Foundation.
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Tse Ming Tam
Vice President, Community
Investment
United Way of the Bay Area
1970 Broadway, Ste 340
Oakland, CA 94612
510.238.2421
ttam@uwba.org
Doua Thor American organizations as well as
Executive Director
Southeast Asia Resource
Action Center
1628 16th St. NW, 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20009
202.667.4690
doua@searac.org
32
Tse Ming Tam manages the Type of Work
Financial Stability Partnership Financial Sector Expert,
portfolio at the United Way of Philanthropy
the Bay Area which focuses on
helping households reduce debts, Expertise
build income, and build and Workforce development, asset-
protect assets. Previously, Tse building, sector initiatives
Ming helped transform the Insight
Center’s sector demonstration Population Focus
project into a field of practice and Communities of color
created the National Network
of Sector Partners (NNSP), a
national organization that provides
assistance to the sector field,
which is a regional, industry-
focused approach to workforce
and economic development.
Mr. Tam has also served as the
Acting Director for Chinese for
Affirmative Action, a nonprofit
civil rights advocacy organization
promoting equal access to
housing, education, employment,
contracting and public services
that under his tenure received
President Clinton’s Community
Excellence Award.
Doua Thor works to advance the Type of Work
interests of Cambodian, Laotian, Policy, Advocacy
and Vietnamese Americans
through leadership development, Expertise
capacity building, and community Post-secondary education &
empowerment, and advocates training, Social Security & social
on the federal level on education insurance, wealth disparities,
and immigration issues. Ms. workforce development
Thor has worked with national
and grassroots Southeast Asian Population Focus
Asian Americans, Immigrants
other diverse refugee organizations
for many years, and was a New Language Fluency
Voices Fellow with Hmong National Hmong
Development, Inc. (HND). She
serves on the boards of the Asian &
Pacific Islander American Vote, and
the Asian Pacific Islander American
Scholarship Fund, and is a member
of the Nielsen Media Research
Asian Pacific American Advisory
Council.
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Fernando Torres-Gil, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Academic
Affairs, Professor of Social
Welfare and Public Policy, and
Director of the Center for Policy
Research on Aging
University of California at Los
Angeles
3250 Public Affairs Building
Box 951656
Los Angeles, CA 90095
310.206.1994
torres@spa.ucla.edu
Mahealani Wendt
Executive Director
Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation
1164 Bishop Street, Suite 1205
Honolulu, HI 96813
808.521.2302
mawendt@nhlchi.org
Lillian “Beadsie” Woo, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Family Economic
Success Program
Annie E. Casey Foundation
701 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
410.547.6600
bwoo@aecf.org
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Dr. Torres-Gil is a nationally Type of Work
recognized expert and widely Research, Policy
published scholar in the fields of
health and long-term care, the Expertise
politics of aging, social policy, Social Security & social insurance,
ethnicity and disability. He was wealth disparities
the first Assistant Secretary for
Aging in the U.S. Department Population Focus
of Health and Human Services Latinos, Immigrants
under President Clinton. In 1978,
President Carter appointed him
to the Federal Council on Aging.
Dr. Torres-Gil is a Fellow of the
Gerontological Society of America,
and the National Academy of
Public Administration, a past
President of the American Society
on Aging, and a member of the
National Academy of Social
Insurance.
Mahealani Wendt’s expertise Type of Work
includes Native Hawaiian land, and Policy, Law, Advocacy
natural and traditional rights. She
has been a member of the State Expertise
of Hawaii Judiciary’s Alternative Land, Native Hawaiian rights law,
Dispute Resolution Board, and dispute resolution and community
was the first Native Hawaiian board development
member of the Native American
Rights Fund. Population Focus
Native Hawaiians
Dr. Woo works on issues relating to Type of Work
the economic success of families. Research
Previously, she was a Senior
Economist at CFED where she Expertise
managed the annual assessment Tax policy, asset-building,
of state economic development community economic development
for each of the fifty states and
the biennial assessment of state Population Focus
asset development. Under the Communities of color
auspices of the Luce Scholars
program, Dr. Woo worked on
policies and projects designed
to create opportunities for rural
communities. She has also worked
at the International Food Policy
Research Institute, the World
Bank, and as a primary analyst of
Malaysia’s New Economic Policy.
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 Robert Wynn is a financial expert, Type of Work
educator, and owner of Akamai Financial Education
LLC, a business and community
development consulting firm. He is Expertise
also the director of Better Investing, Savings & investments, financial
a national trade association for services
investment clubs, and a former
member of the Federal Reserve’s Population Focus
Consumer Advisory Council. Communities of color
Mr. Wynn currently leads project
Robert Wynn “CLIMB,” whose goal is to establish
Director one hundred investment clubs in
Asset Builders of America, Inc. Milwaukee, as well as an alternative
credit data project funded in part
P.O. Box 46202 by the Brookings Institution. Mr.
Madison, WI 53744 Wynn recently launched “Land
608.332.4423 Rich,” an ambitious effort to help
Wynn_r@sbcglobal.net cash poor property owners to
derive greater value from their real
estate holdings.

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Appendix A

A Hamilton, Darrick 15 Panameño, Aracely 24

Agres, Jr., Bob 2 Hao, Lingxin 15 Pastor, Manuel 25
Arredondo, Rudy 2 Hasegawa, Lisa 15 Pastor, Luis 25
Augare, Shannon 3 Hicks, Sarah 16 Pate, Kimberly 25
Austin, Algernon 3 Horne, Savi 16 Pata, Jaqueline Johnson 26
Hudson, Paul 16 Pennick, Edward 26
B powell, john 26
Baylor, Don 4 I
Bowdler, Janis 4 Im, Hyepin 17 Q
Bradley, Melissa 5 Quiñonez, Jose 27
Brooks, Joe 5 J
Janis, Terry 17 R
C Jayaraman, Saru 18 Roberts, Michael 27
Calpotura , Francis 6 Jones-DeWeever, Avis 18 Robles, Barbara 28
Carr, James 6 Rockeymoore, Maya 28
Chang, Mariko 7 K Rodriguez, Eric 29
Clay, Roger 7 Kijakazi, Kilolo 19
Cordova , Teresa 8 Kutty, Nandinee 19 S
Shanks, Trina 29
D L Silva, Javier 29
Danner, Robin 8 Leigh, Wilhelmina 20 Simms, Margaret 30
Darity, William 9 Lui, Meizhu 20 Soto-Class, Miguel 30
Dela Cruz, Melany 9 Spriggs, William 31
Di, Zhu Xiao 10 M Stainbrook, Cris 31
Dixon, Rebecca 10 McPherson, Christine 21
Meeks, Elsie 21 T
E Mensah, Lisa 22 Tam, Tse Ming 32
Edwards, Karen 10 Mitchell, Thomas 22 Thor, Doua 32
Moy, Kirsten 22 Torres-Gil, Fernando 33
F
Fenelon, James 11 N W
Fiddler, Tanya 12 Nembhard, Jessica Gordon 23 Wendt, Mahealani 33
Woo, Lillian 33
G O Wynn, Robert 34
Garcia, Jose 12 Oliver, Melvin 23
Glover Blackwell, Angela 13 Ong, Paul 24
Gonzales, Moises 13
Granados, Luis 14
Gunn, Gena 14

H P

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Appendix B

Debt, Credit and Financial Services

Agres, Jr. Bob Fiddler, Tanya Moy, Kirsten

Augare, Shannon Fischer, Tracy Oliver, Melvin
Baylor, Don Garcia, Jose Panameño, Aracely
Bowdler, Janis Gunn, Gena Pastor, Luis
Bradley, Melissa Hamilton, Darrick Pate, Kimberly
Calpotura, Francis Hasegawa, Lisa Quiñonez, Jose
Campa, Dennis Horne, Savi Roberts, Michael
Carr, James Hudson, Paul Robles, Barbara
Chang, Mariko Im, Hyepin Rodriguez, Eric
Danner, Robin Kutty, Nandinee Silva, Javier
Di, Zhu Xiao McPherson, Christine Stainbrook, Cris
Dixon, Rebecca Meeks, Elsie Wynn, Robert
Edwards, Karen Mensah, Lisa

Housing and Home Lending

Bowdler, Janis Garcia, Jose Mensah, Lisa

Brooks, Joe Granados, Luis Oliver, Melvin
Campa, Dennis Hamilton, Darrick Panameño, Aracely
Carr, James Hasegawa, Lisa Pata, Jaqueline Johnson
Chang, Mariko Horne, Savi powell, john
Clay, Roger Hudson, Paul Roberts, Michael
Danner, Robin Kutty, Nandinee Robles, Barbara
Di, Zhu Xiao Leigh, Wilhelmina Rodriguez, Eric
Fiddler, Tanya McPherson, Christine

Land Acquisition, Retention and Development

Arredondo, Rudy Gonzales, Moises Oliver, Melvin

Brooks, Joe Horne, Savi Pennick, Edward
Carr, James Janis, Terry Roberts, Michael
Edwards, Karen McPherson, Christine Stainbrook, Cris
Fenelon, James Mitchell, Thomas Wendt, Mahealani

Small and Micro Business Development

Agres, Jr. Bob Fiddler, Tanya Ong, Paul

Arredondo, Rudy Fischer, Tracey Pate, Kimberly
Bradley, Melissa Granados, Luis Pennick, Edward
Carr, James Horne, Savi Roberts, Michael
Cordova, Teresa Hudson, Paul Robles, Barbara
Danner, Robin Jayaraman, Saru Rockeymoore, Maya
Dela Cruz, Melany Kutty, Nandinee
Dixon, Rebecca Nembhard, Jessica Gordon

Savings and Investments

Brooks, Joe Im, Hyepin Quiñonez, Jose

Campa, Dennis Kijakazi, Kilolo Roberts, Michael
Carr, James Kutty, Nandinee Shanks, Trina
Chang, Mariko Meeks, Elsie Silva, Javier
Danner, Robin Mensah, Lisa Soto-Class, Mike
Edwards, Karen Oliver, Melvin Wynn, Robert
Hicks, Sarah Pastor, Luis
Hudson, Paul Pate, Kimberly

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Appendix B

Social Insurance: Medicaid, Social Security and Unemployment Insurance

Bradley, Melissa Kutty, Nandinee Simms, Margaret

Carr, James Leigh, Wilhelmina Spriggs, William
Chang, Mariko Oliver, Melvin Thor, Doua
Hicks, Sarah Rockeymoore, Maya Torres-Gil, Fernando
Kijakazi, Kilolo Rodriguez, Eric

Income, Jobs and Workforce Development

Austin, Algernon Darity, William Nembhard, Jessica Gordon

Baylor, Don Gunn, Gena Ong, Paul
Blackwell, Angela Glover Hasegawa, Lisa Pastor, Manuel
Bradley, Melissa Im, Hyepin powell, john
Campa, Dennis Janis, Terry Tam, Tse Ming
Carr, James Jayaraman, Saru Thor, Doua
Clay, Roger Lui, Meizhu Woo, Lillian
Danner, Robin Moy, Kirsten

Tax Policy

Augare, Shannon Edwards, Karen Rodriguez, Eric

Baylor, Don Kutty, Nandinee Soto-Class, Mike
Campa, Dennis Lui, Meizhu Woo, Lillian
Carr, James Pate, Kimberly
Dixon, Rebecca Roberts, Michael

Wealth Disparities

Bradley, Melissa Hao, Lingxin Pastor, Manuel

Brooks, Joe Hasegawa, Lisa powell, john
Carr, James Jayaraman, Saru Quiñonez, Jose
Chang, Marik Jones-DeWeever, Avis Robles, Barbara
Darity, Wiliam Leigh, Wilhelmina Shanks, Trina
Di, Zhu Xiao Lui, Meizhu Thor, Doua
Edwards, Karen Oliver, Melvin Torres-Gil, Fernando
Gunn, Gena Ong, Paul
Hamilton, Darrick Panameno, Aracely

Immigration

Arredondo, Rudy Hao, Lingxin Quiñonez, Jose

Calpotura, Francis Im, Hypein Thor, Doua
Campa, Dennis Ong, Paul

Women

Chang, Mariko Lui, Meizhu Simms, Margaret

Jones-DeWeever, Avis Pate, Kimberly

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Appendix C: Experts by State

Arizona Georgia New York

Robles, Barbara Pennick, Edward Garcia, Jose
Hamilton, Darrick
California Hawaii Jayaraman, Saru
Brooks, Joe Agres, Bob Kijakazi, Kilolo
Calpotura, Francis Danner, Robin Mensah, Lisa
Clay, Roger Lui, Meizhu Silva, Javier
Dela Cruz, Melany Wendt, Mahealani Gordon Nembhard, Jessica
Fenelon, James
Glover Blackwell, Angela Kansas North Carolina
Granados, Luis Edwards, Karen Darity, William
Hudson, Paul Horne, Savi
Im, Hyepin Maryland Pastor, Luis
Oliver, Melvin Woo, Lillian
Ong, Paul Hao, Lingxin Ohio
Pastor, Manuel powell, john
Quiñonez, Jose Massachusetts
Tam, Tse Ming Chang, Mariko Puerto Rico
Thor, Doua Di, Zhu Xiao Soto-Class, Miguel
Torres-Gil, Fernando
Michigan South Dakota
Colorado Shanks, Trina Fiddler, Tanya
McPherson, Christine Fischer, Tracey
Roberts, Michael Minnesota Meeks, Elsie
Janis, Terry
District of Columbia Stainbrook, Cris Texas
Arredondo, Rudy Baylor, Don
Austin, Algernon Mississippi Campa, Dennis
Bowdler, Janis Dixon, Rebecca
Bradley, Melissa Virginia
Carr, James Missouri Kutty, Nandinee
Hasegawa, Lisa Gunn, Gena
Hicks, Sarah Wisconsin
Jones-DeWeever, Avis Montana Mitchell, Thomas
Leigh, Wilhelmina Augare, Shannon Wynn, Robert
Moy, Kirsten
Panameño, Aracely New Mexico
Pate, Kimberly Cordova, Teresa
Johnson Pata, Jaqueline Gonzales, Moises
Rockeymoore, Maya
Rodriguez, Eric
Simms, Margaret
Spriggs, William

Appendix D: Experts by Fluency in a Language Other Than English

Spanish Hmong Korean

Arredondo, Rudy Thor, Doua Im, Hyepin
Calpotura, Francis
Garcia, Jose Chinese Tagalog
Gonzales, Moises Hao, Lingxin (Mandarin & Calpotura, Francis
Granados, Luis Cantonese)
Jayaraman, Saru Di, Zhu Xiao (Mandarin)
Pañameno, Aracely
Pastor, Luis Hindi
Quiñonez, Jose Kutty, Nandinee
Robles, Barbara
Shanks, Trina
Soto-Class, Miguel

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“Principles for an Inclusive Economy,” March 2009. The Initiative developed

these principles for policymakers, educators, business and civic leaders to
follow in order to begin to reverse the effect of inequitable public policies
and create a more inclusive economy.

The Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative brought together members of
the Experts of Color Network to determine barriers to asset building in com-
munities of color and to provide policy solutions to close the racial wealth
gap. The group developed the following issue-specific factsheets and policy
briefs:

The Racial Gap in Debt, Credit and Financial Services

The Racial Gap in Homeownership and Home Lending
The Racial Gap in Savings and Investments
The Racial Gap in Tax Policy
The Racial Gap in Wages and Employment
The Racial Gap in Business Development
The Racial Gap in Land Acquisition, Development and Retention
Social Insurance and Communities of Color

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Acknowledgements

The Insight Center would like to thank all of those who made the work of the Initiative and
this publication possible, as well as the members of the Experts of Color Network.

Our leadership committee

Rebecca Adamson, Puanani Burgess, Linda Chavez-Thompson, Bill Lan Lee, Julianne
Malveaux and Melvin Oliver.

We also thank our eight asset-building policy working groups, particularly their leaders:

Land Development, Retention and Acquisition

Rudy Arredondo and Thomas Mitchell

Savings and Investments

Karen Edwards

Debt, Credit and Financial Institutions

Jose Garcia

Housing and Homeownership

john powell

Micro and Small Business Ownership

Barbara Robles and Paul Hudson

Employment and Income

Tse-Ming Tam

Social Insurance
Maya Rockeymoore

Tax Policy
Don Baylor

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Acknowledgements

We would also like to express our gratitude and appreciation for the hard work, patience,
and support of the Insight Center staff particularly, Meizhu Lui, Lori Warren, Esther Polk
and Marsha Caldwell, and to Victor Corral for managing the development and production
of this directory.

Finally, we thank the Ford Foundation and Kilolo Kijakazi whose support and vision led to
the development and expansion of the asset building field, and to the production of this
directory.

More Information

For the complete list of all of the members of the Insight Center’s Experts of Color
Network (ECON) and to download a PDF version of this publication, please visit www.
expertsofcolor.org

If you would like us to put you in contact with an expert, please email Victor Corral,
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative Program Associate at vcorral@insightcced.org or
510.251.2600.

Published in the Fall 2009.

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