Advancing Regional Equity

The Second National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth

May 23-25, 2005

Pennsylvania Convention Center , PA

Summit Program PolicyLink is a national nonprofit research, The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and communications, capacity building, and advocacy Livable Communities works to inspire, catalyze, organization, dedicated to advancing policies and strengthen philanthropic leadership and to achieve economic and social equity based on expand funders’ abilities to support organizations the wisdom, voice, and experience of local working to build more livable communities constituencies. through smarter growth policies and practices.

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Welcome to Philadelphia and to Advancing Regional Philadelphia is the perfect location for a conversation Equity: The Second National Summit on Equitable about advancing regional equity. Rich in historic Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth. We neighborhoods, home to great natural assets, and are all here because we share a commitment to boasting some of the nation’s top educational increasing economic, environmental, and social institutions, the city is in the throes of change as it justice in America. Over the next two-and-half days, grapples with declining population as residents in plenary sessions, workshops, caucuses, and follow opportunities and amenities to the suburbs. informal conversations, we will share the work we do Philadelphia also nurtures a rich tapestry of to create communities, regions, and indeed, a nation, organizations working to restore greatness to the city where everyone has the opportunity to participate and the region, and thus is a unique backdrop for and prosper. Innovative strategies for building conversations about the possibilities of the regional affordable homes and apartments, connecting jobs equity framework for achieving positive change. and transportation, improving community health, strengthening rural economies, and promoting more Your presence here among such a diverse group of equitable infrastructure decisions, are just some of people who represent community organizations, what we will discuss, debate, and develop. Our time foundations, government, and businesses from together will allow us to adapt and apply these urban, suburban, and rural areas reflects the belief strategies wherever they are needed, especially to that realizing full economic and social inclusion is benefit low-income people and working families. more than a dream. Sharing what we know and what we are doing will bring us closer to making it a reality. Regional growth and development patterns profoundly impact the life circumstances and outcomes of low- income people and communities of color. Too many people are isolated in neighborhoods without living wage jobs or public transit to reach employment in other parts of the region. Too many children struggle in poor quality, deteriorating schools. Too many people live in communities with poor air and water quality and disease-causing toxic sites. Too many neighborhoods lack basic services like supermarkets, banks, safe parks, and inviting public spaces.

In the coming years, the American population will continue to grow and decisions will be made about how, where, and what to build in response. We must work to ensure that growth and development now Angela Glover L. Benjamin Starrett and in the future increases opportunity for all people. Blackwell Executive Director, Without such vigilance, the pattern of poor decision- Founder and CEO, Funders’ Network for making that has allowed sprawling development PolicyLink Smart Growth and patterns to take a toll on families and the environment, Livable Communities especially in America’s older communities, will continue. Unless we demand better decisions, it will be difficult—if not impossible—for children, families, and communities to realize positive outcomes for the future.

1 Our Sponsors

We greatly appreciate the foundations and institutions that provided financial support, grassroots scholarships, and numerous regional delegations. The visionary leadership and generosity of these sponsors made the summit possible.

The Ford Foundation The William Penn Foundation W. K. Kellogg Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Annie E. Casey Foundation Hewlett Packard Company

Bank of America The Boeing Company The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation The California Endowment The California Wellness Foundation Marguerite Casey Foundation Claneil Foundation Dade Community Foundation Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Fannie Mae Foundation Bank of Philadelphia George Gund Foundation The Gifford Foundation Grand Victoria Foundation Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media (GFEM) Kaiser Permanente The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) The McKnight Foundation The Meyer Foundation Miami Dade County Task Force on Urban Economic Revitalization Herman & Frieda Miller Foundation Charles Stewart Mott Foundation New York Community Trust The Philadelphia Foundation Prince Charitable Trusts The Prudential Foundation The San Francisco Foundation The Skillman Foundation Surdna Foundation Washington Mutual

Sponsor list as of May 2, 2005

2 3 We acknowledge with gratitude the numerous partners who helped PolicyLink and the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities in the planning, outreach, and programmatic development of the summit. Your support and guidance helped shape this important national event. Thank you for making the summit a success.

2 3 Table of Contents

4 5 Themes Summit Themes 6 Agenda Agenda at a Glance 8 Workshops Workshops and Caucuses 14 Monday, May 23rd 15 Tuesday, May 24th 21 Wednesday, May 25th 29 Book Signing Authors’ Showcase and Book Signing 32 Screening Room Screening Room and i-Café 36 Schedule 37 Multimedia at the Summit 39 Speakers Speaker Biographies 44 Map Venue Map 72

4 5 Advancing Regional Equity: The Second National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth Summit Themes

6 7 The Changing Face of Regions More than ever, the only constant in many regions is change. Economic and social opportunity is being impacted by dramatic shifts in immigration, racial composition, the location of employment, and urban, suburban, and rural growth and development.

Summit participants will explore these trends further Themes and learn how regional equity strategies are being tailored to respond to changing regional dynamics.

Strategies that Build Power To achieve regional equity, smart growth proponents, environmental justice advocates, labor leaders, community organizers, civil rights champions, community developers, those in philanthropy, the private sector, and academia must build leadership for policy change that makes economic and social equity a central goal of all efforts to create a more inclusive society. Summit participants will discuss effective power-building strategies that advance regional equity agendas.

Innovative Policy and Practice During the last decade, the commitment and accomplishments of advocates nationwide have resulted in progress toward achieving regional equity. The summit will highlight projects and policies that are improving outcomes for low-income people and communities of color at the local, regional, state, and federal levels.

Campaigns, Policies, and Politics Social and economic change is achieved through hard work and political engagement. Regional equity advocates are learning important lessons from their campaigns, struggles, and achievements. The summit will showcase a diverse array of equity campaigns across the country and discuss strategies for successfully confronting political challenges.

6 7 Advancing Regional Equity: The Second National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth Agenda at a Glance

8 9 Monday, May 23

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8:00am Continental Breakfast Ballroom B

8:45 – 10:30am Opening Plenary Ballroom B Agenda Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges in Advancing Regional Equity

15 minute break

10:45 – 12:15pm Workshop Series One The Context for Advancing Regional Equity

Concurrent Sessions Understanding Regional Dynamics: Implications for Social and 201A Economic Justice New Realities in Federal and State Funding 201B Civil Rights Leaders Explore Regional Equity 201C The Leadership Role of Public Officials 204A Infrastructure: The Next Equity Frontier 204B Politics, Power, and Land Use Policy 204C Building Shared Perspectives: The Intersection of Smart Growth, 202 Regional Equity, and Environmental Justice

15 minute break

12:30 – 2:30pm Luncheon Plenary Ballroom B The Role of Philanthropy: Making a Sound Investment in Regional Equity

15 minute break

2:45 – 4:15pm Workshop Series Two Trends in the Field

Concurrent Sessions Achieving Prosperity and Opportunity in America’s Older Core Cities 201A On Track: An Analysis of Transit-Oriented Development 201B Promoting Equitable Development in Rural Communities 201C Building the High-Road Economy: Labor, Jobs, and Smart Growth 204A Food for Thought: Regional Access to Healthy Foods 204B Separate and Unequal Infrastructure: Public Investment in 204C School Facilities Crossing Borders: Immigrants, Communities, and Regional 202 Development

15 minute break

8 9 Monday, May 23 continued

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4:30 – 6:00pm Issue, Geographic, and Strategy Caucuses Facilitated group discussions and networking

Concurrent Caucuses African American Forum on Race and Regionalism: 201A Promoting Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Transit-Centered Community Development Leadership Roundtable 201B Community Organizers’ Caucus 201C Rural Opportunities and Policy Challenges 204A There Goes the Neighborhood? The Challenges and Opportunities 204B of Equitable Development and the Arts

6:00 – 8:00pm Opening Reception Grand Hall

10 11 Tuesday, May 24

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7:30am Continental Breakfast Ballroom B

8:30 – 10:00am Keynote Address Ballroom B Agenda Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

15 minute break

10:15 – 11:45am Workshop Series Three Leveraging Local, Regional, and State Policy

Concurrent Sessions The Philadelphia Story 201A The Double Bottom-Line: Business Perspectives on Equitable 201B Development Rural and Urban Alliances for Economic Opportunity 201C Promoting Equitable Transportation Investments 204A Action for Regional Equity: A Advocacy Case Study 204B Sub/urban: Building Alliances for Metropolitan Equity 204C Lessons from Los Angeles: Managing Public Investment for 202 Growth and Equitable Development

15 minute break

12:00 – 2:30pm Workshop Series Four (Working Lunch) Building Skills and Crafting Effective Tactics

Interactive sessions focused on deepening the skills and knowledge of participants on issues critical to advancing regional equity. The sessions accommodate a range of skill levels.

Please pick up a box lunch outside of the breakout rooms on your way to a workshop.

Concurrent Sessions Forging Effective Cross-Sector Collaboration: 201A A Focus on Health Disparities e-Advocacy: Effective Strategies for Policy Campaigns 201B Communicating About Regional Equity 201C But Did it Make a Difference? Evaluation and Indicators 204A Winning Affordable Housing Policies 204B The Advocate: Tools and Strategies for Progressive Policy Change 204C Exploring New Information Systems: GIS as an Advocacy Tool 202

Note: Attendees signed up for the Sustainable Agriculture Tour should meet at the registration desk no later than 12:15pm.

10 11 Tuesday, May 24 continued

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2:45 – 4:15pm Workshop Series Five Strategic Alliances, Public Will, and Community Organizing, Part I

Concurrent Sessions Inclusionary Zoning Campaigns for Diverse Communities 201A Detroit: Re-establishing the Motor City as the Engine for 201B Regional Development Advancing Environmental Justice Across Regions 201C Messaging and Framing: Engaging the Public in the Regional 204A Development Discourse Securing Community Benefits Agreements 204B Friends in High Places: Administrative and Legislative Alliances 204C Racial and Cultural Competencies in Advocacy Work 202

15 minute break

4:30 – 6:00pm Issue, Geographic, and Strategy Caucuses Facilitated group discussions and networking opportunity

Concurrent Caucuses Starting at the Grassroots: How to Put ‘Regional’ in 201A Community Building Community Development Caucus 201B Housing Advocacy Strategy Caucus 201C The Regional and Neighborhood Equity Project 204A Communicating about Growth and Development 204B Community GIS Innovations: The Importance of Parcel 204C Mapping and Data Collection

Evening Open time for socializing, mingling, and enjoying Philadelphia. We encourage you to patronize local restaurants. A list of recommended restaurants is in your registration packet.

12 13 Wednesday, May 25

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7:30am Continental Breakfast Ballroom B

8:00 – 9:30am Plenary Session Ballroom B Agenda Philanthropic Roundtable Discussion

15 minute break

9:45 – 11:15am Workshop Series Six Strategic Alliances, Public Will, and Community Organizing, Part II

Concurrent Sessions Promoting Housing Opportunity Across Regions 201A Faith in Action: Congregational Perspectives on Advancing 201B Regional Equity Community Factors that Impact Health: 201C New Allies, New Messages Philanthropy as Partners: Funders’ Perspectives on Regional and 204A Neighborhood Equity The Wal-Mart Effect: Building the Momentum to Respond 204B Demonstrating the Struggle for Regional Equity in Camden, 204C Gentrification: The Unfinished Agenda 202

15 minute break

11:30am – 12:30pm Closing Plenary Ballroom B Leadership for Policy Change

12 13 Advancing Regional Equity: The Second National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth Workshops and Caucuses

14 15 Monday, May 23

8:45-10:30am 10:45-12:15pm (concurrent sessions) Opening Plenary Workshop Series One: The Context for Advancing Regional Equity Monday Welcoming Remarks Understanding Regional Dynamics: • Carl Anthony, Acting Director, Community and Implications for Social and Resource Development Unit, Ford Foundation Economic Justice • Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and Chief Executive Across the country, communities are experiencing Officer, PolicyLink major political, social, and economic shifts as a result • Michael A. Nutter, Councilman, 4th , of regional growth and development patterns. To Workshops Philadelphia City Council ensure that individuals and families in all communities • L. Benjamin Starrett, Executive Director, Funders’ can participate in and benefit from regional economic Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities activity, advocates must understand these patterns. This session features several of the nation’s leading Progress, Opportunities, policy and research experts describing trends such and Challenges in Advancing as the nature and location of jobs; racial, economic, Regional Equity and political changes in the suburbs; and housing The opening session explores the power of the affordability across neighborhoods and regions. They regional equity framework for achieving economic will provide an overview of national data and their and social justice in the . It features own in-depth analyses, and draw out the implications diverse leaders from the labor, faith, community for effective regional equity responses. development, and civil rights arenas who are Moderator advancing regional equity. The panelists will define Manuel Pastor, Jr., Professor, Latin American and what regional equity means in practice and share Latino Studies, and Co-director, Center for Justice, promising efforts to achieve it. They will also discuss Tolerance, and Community, University of California, strategies for confronting challenges and articulate Santa Cruz their visions for the movement. Panelists Moderator • Bruce Katz, Vice President, Brookings Institution Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and Chief Executive and Founding Director, Brookings Metropolitan Officer, PolicyLink Policy Program Panelists • Michael A. Stoll, Associate Professor of Public Policy, • Francisco Estrada, Director of Public Policy— School of Public Affairs, and Associate Director, Sacramento Office, Mexican American Legal Defense Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, University of and Educational Fund (MALDEF) California, Los Angeles • Gerald Hudson, Executive Vice President, Service • Margery Austin Turner, Director, Metropolitan Employees International Union/1199 (SEIU) Housing and Community Policy Center, The Urban • Jeremy Nowak, President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute The Reinvestment Fund • Reverend Cheryl Rivera, Lead Organizer, Metropolitan Alliance of Congregations West, and Founder and Director, Gamaliel African American Leadership Commission

14 15 New Realities in Federal and The Leadership Role of State Funding Public Officials Since 2000, an unprecedented number of states Around the country, local and state officials are have faced budget crises driven by recession and the implementing equitable development and smart continuing retreat by the federal government from growth strategies in response to the regional forces supporting longstanding programs that serve low- that influence their communities. Engage in discussion income communities. The result has been cuts in with officials who are aggressively pursuing new and programs and services at the state and local levels innovative strategies to promote regional equity. affecting education, health, social services, and Moderator transportation. In the midst of fiscal difficulties how Judith Bell, President, PolicyLink can advocates continue to advance equity and Panelists protect vulnerable populations? Explore the prognosis • Cielo V. Castro, Deputy Director, Constituency for government fiscal support and its implications Services, National Association of Latino Elected for communities. Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund Moderator • Daniel T. Kildee, Treasurer, Genesee County, Michigan Dede Myers, Vice President and Community Affairs • Charles Lyons, Selectman (1981-2005), Town of Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Arlington, Massachusetts, and Past President, Panelists National League of Cities • Sheila Crowley, President, National Low Income • Michael A. Nutter, Councilman, 4th District, Housing Coalition Philadelphia City Council • Robert Friedman, General Council, Founder and Chair, CFED Infrastructure: • Robert Greenstein, Founder and Executive Director, The Next Equity Frontier Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Advocates increasingly recognize the importance of infrastructure decisions in regional development. Civil Rights Leaders Explore Highway builders, agribusiness, and utility companies Regional Equity typically dominate public infrastructure decision- How does where you live influence your quality of life; making, but community-based groups and coalitions that is, how you live? Where you live can determine are increasingly gaining influence in financing, your opportunity, your future. Viewing the dynamics planning, and regulatory policies for transportation, of civil rights through the lens of regional equity water, school facilities, telecommunications, parks, unites the vitality and vision of both movements for energy generation, and other arenas. Explore how racial, economic, and social justice. These innovative infrastructure decisions shape neighborhoods and leaders discuss how to develop and implement metropolitan growth patterns and discuss efforts to strategies that build a better society for all, especially ensure that low-income residents benefit from these for low-income people and communities of color. public investments. Moderator Moderator Dayna L. Cunningham, Project Manager, Lord-Ross Raymond Colmenar, Associate Director, PolicyLink Philanthropic Advisors Panelists Panelists • Scott Bernstein, President, Center for Neighborhood • Theresa Fay-Bustillos, Executive Director, Levi Strauss Technology Foundation, and Vice President, Worldwide • Robert Garcia, Executive Director and Counsel, Center Community Affairs, Levi Strauss & Company for Law in the Public Interest • Stewart Kwoh, President and Executive Director, • William Kennedy, Managing Attorney, Sacramento Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern Office, Legal Services of Northern California California • john a. powell, Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and Professor, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University

16 17 Politics, Power, and Land Use Policy 12:30-2:30pm Land use decisions have a critical impact on social, Luncheon Plenary economic, and environmental outcomes in regions. The Role of Philanthropy: Making a Sound This panel of leading advocates reviews innovative Investment in Regional Equity campaigns that promote fair land use policies and practices and examines the positive impacts on This plenary session features foundation executives environmental justice, housing, transportation, and discussing philanthropy’s support of diverse initiatives fiscal reform. that are designed to reverse inequitable patterns of Moderator regional growth and development. Panelists approach Don Chen, Founding Executive Director and Chief this work from a variety of issue areas and Executive Officer, Smart Growth America perspectives and in this discussion, explore questions Panelists such as: how is a regional equity framework useful

• Myron Orfield, Director, Institute on Race and Poverty, in shaping philanthropic strategies to create economic Monday University of Minnesota and social opportunity for disadvantaged families? • David Rusk, Urban Policy Consultant What opportunities and challenges exist for funders • Laurie Weahkee, Executive Director, Sacred Alliance that wish to support regional equity efforts? What for Grassroots Equality (SAGE) Council are the most promising points for interventions? Moderator Building Shared Perspectives: Ian Wilhelm, Senior Reporter, The Chronicle of The Intersection of Smart Growth, Philanthropy Workshops Regional Equity, Panelists and Environmental Justice • Carl Anthony, Acting Director, Community and The smart growth, regional equity, and environmental Resource Development Unit, Ford Foundation justice movements all seek to influence regional • Richard M. Foster, Vice President for Programs, W. K. development decisions. Tensions can emerge regarding Kellogg Foundation goals, activities, priorities, and language. This session • Aurie A. Pennick, Executive Director, Field Foundation investigates how some of the nation’s most progressive of Illinois organizations have started to blend disparate interests • Robert K. Ross, President and Chief Executive Officer, to promote more equitable and inclusive metropolitan The California Endowment areas. Hear how advocates address differences, resolve conflicts, and unite around a common cause. Moderator Michael Mendez, Lead Consultant, Assembly Select Committee on Environmental Justice, California State Assembly Panelists • Juliet Ellis, Executive Director, Urban Habitat • Jill Fuglister, Executive Director, Coalition for a Livable Future • Penn Loh, Executive Director, Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)

16 17 2:45-4:15pm (concurrent sessions) Promoting Equitable Development Workshop Series Two: in Rural Communities Trends in the Field More than 55 million people in the United States live in areas defined by the Census Bureau as rural, yet these areas are often forgotten in regional policy Achieving Prosperity and discourse. However, there are many best practices found in Rural America that have relevance to other Opportunity in America’s Older communities. The lessons to be learned there address Core Cities ways to organize residents and ensure that their voices While some of America’s cities continue to experience are heard in policymaking and asset development positive growth, many others continue to struggle strategies. Discover the issues that confront advocates with issues of population loss, stagnant economies, in these communities and the significance of rural large scale vacancy and abandonment, and policy agendas for achieving regional equity. concentrated poverty. This session will explore how Moderator the regional equity framework is a viable and Joe Brooks, Vice President for Civic Engagement, effective tool to revitalize struggling older core PolicyLink cities—primarily located in the Midwest and Panelists Northeast—into vibrant, equitable, and competitive • William J. Bynum, Chief Executive Officer, Enterprise centers of prosperity and opportunity. Panelists will Corporation of the Delta and Hope Community Credit review key trends effecting America’s older core Union cities, key principles for charting a new course, and • Cynthia Mildred Duncan, Director, The Carsey promising strategies and policies being advanced at Institute, University of New Hampshire the local and state level. • Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, Director, Children’s Defense Moderator Fund, Southern Regional Office Kim Burnett, Program Officer, Community Revitalization, Surdna Foundation Building the High-Road Economy: Panelists Labor, Jobs, and Smart Growth • Radhika Fox, Senior Associate, PolicyLink What are the promising strategies for promoting a • Anika Goss-Foster, Program Director, Detroit Office, high-road economy in the face of globalization and Local Initiatives Support Coalition fierce corporate competition? In this session, labor, • Court Gould, Director, Sustainable Pittsburgh business, and community leaders will discuss challenges and opportunities to meet the needs of On Track: An Analysis of Transit- working families through smart growth and regional Oriented Development economic development initiatives. Transit-oriented developments (TODs) are mixed-use Moderator developments centered around transit hubs that hold J. Philip Thompson, Associate Professor of Urban the promise of connecting low-income people to Politics, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, employment opportunities, quality housing, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology services. Meaningful participation and leadership by Panelists community advocates in TOD projects are needed to • Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Executive Director, Working prevent such consequences as the displacement of Partnerships USA existing low-income residents. Increasingly, a diverse • Nicole Price, Community and Political Organizer, SEIU array of community development and advocacy District 1199E-DC organizations recognize the tangible opportunity that • Joel Rogers, Professor of Law, Political Science, and TODs represent. Learn about the role that public Sociology, and Founder and Director, Center on policy plays in securing effective TOD and how Wisconsin Strategy, University of Wisconsin, Madison cooperation between the diverse participants can yield positive and equitable results. Food for Thought: Moderator Carrie Makarewicz, Senior Research Analyst, Center Regional Access to Healthy Foods for Neighborhood Technology The availability of affordable, quality fresh fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods in low-income Panelists neighborhoods determines dietary choices, well- • Mary Nelson, President, Bethel New Life being, and influences local economic development. • Michael Sarbanes, Executive Director, Citizens Learn about innovative strategies to improve access Planning and Housing Association (CPHA) to healthy food, including: efforts to help rural Latino • Bruce M. Watts, Senior Director, Tri-County farmers resist the commodification of water and Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon ensure sustainable agricultural practices; a colorful (TriMet) mobile market that brings healthy food and nutrition

18 19 education to residents of an underserved Moderator neighborhood; a health maintenance organization Julie Kohler, Program Officer, National Venture Fund, that hosts farmers’ markets for their staff and plan John S. and James L. Knight Foundation members; and a successful policy advocacy effort that Panelists secured $100 million to bring grocery stores, farmers’ • Miguel Garcia, Acting Deputy Director, Community markets, and healthy corner stores to residents in and Resource Development Unit, Ford Foundation underserved neighborhoods across Pennsylvania. • Lisa Hasegawa, Executive Director, National Coalition Engage in discussion with speakers and session for Asian Pacific American Community Development participants about how efforts to secure healthy food • Hussein M. Samatar, Executive Director, African can transform the physical and economic health of Development Center communities and regions. Moderator Loel S. Solomon, National Director for Community Monday Health Initiatives and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente 4:30-6:00pm (concurrent caucuses) Panelists Issue, Geographic, and Strategy Caucuses • Hannah Burton, Senior Associate, The Food Trust • Malaika Edwards, Co-founder, The People’s Grocery • Moises Gonzales, Executive Director, Mexicano Land Education and Conservation Trust These facilitated caucuses provide opportunities to share information, resources, and ideas about issues Workshops Separate and Unequal that may not be covered in the workshops and Infrastructure: Public Investment in plenary sessions or that participants would like to School Facilities discuss in more depth. More than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, racial segregation persists and regional African American Forum on Race development patterns and population growth have and Regionalism: Promoting resulted in a massive need to modernize old schools and construct new ones. School across the Sustainable Metropolitan country are in the midst of a $90 billion three-year Communities building boom. Unfortunately, many low-income The session features renowned African American communities of color receive less of this public scholars and experts discussing the influence and investment than wealthier communities. Examine challenges of race on the sustainability of how recent litigation and legislative advocacy are metropolitan communities. This session is sponsored pushing states to make their school construction by the African American Forum on Race and expenditures more equitable. Regionalism (AAFRR), which was initiated in 2002 by Moderator the Ford Foundation. AAFRR is a means to share Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law, Georgetown experiences and build broad strategic alliances that University advance regional equity. Spearheaded by Carl Panelists Anthony of the Ford Foundation, AAFRR is co-chaired • Mary Filardo, Founder and Executive Director, 21st by Angela Glover Blackwell of PolicyLink; Robert Century School Fund Bullard at Clark Atlanta University’s Environmental • Sue Fothergill, Education Advocate, American Civil Justice Resource Center; and john a. powell of the Liberties Union of Maryland (ACLU-MD) Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. • Richard Raya, Senior Associate, PolicyLink Facilitators Carl Anthony, Acting Director, Community and Crossing Borders: Resource Development Unit, Ford Foundation Deeohn Ferris, President, Global Environmental Immigrants, Communities, and Resources Inc. Regional Development Recognizing the vibrancy and energy that immigrants bring to regions paves the way for a discussion of the various challenges and opportunities when engaging diverse communities in regional equity efforts. Join speakers representing philanthropy and community development, as they discuss how these demographic changes affect the regions and communities in which they work. Participants will learn about promising practices to promote social and economic inclusion.

18 19 Transit-Centered Community There Goes the Neighborhood? The Development Leadership Challenges and Opportunities of Roundtable Equitable Development and the Arts Using the Philadelphia Allegheny Rail Station area as Neighborhood development efforts can place the a case study, national and local leaders will explore needs of community members and those of artists the opportunities and challenges of creating urban and cultural groups in conflict. Both want affordable infill transit-oriented development in low-wealth places to live and work. Rising costs, competition neighborhoods. This site, located within the African for available space and financing, and historic American Allegheny West neighborhood, offers representations of communities and artists commuter rail and bus service to a significant number as adversaries diminish opportunities for working of the region’s job clusters. Yet the station area is toward a common cause. Using current research, underutilized and surrounded by abandoned and case studies, discussion, and examples from caucus blighted industrial properties. Join this caucus participants, this session examines issues, discussion about how transit-centered community recommends resources, and explores successful development approaches can: (1) improve access to practices in engaging stakeholders and building regional employment opportunities; (2) connect shared agendas. neighborhood-based employers to the regional Facilitators workforce; and (3) leverage the transit station area Caron Atlas, Independent Consultant as a focus for redevelopment efforts. Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Arts, Museum, and Facilitator Management Consultant Beverly Coleman, Program Director, Philadelphia Neighborhood Development Collaborative

Community Organizers’ Caucus 6:00-8:00pm Regardless of the policy objective, organizing remains Opening Reception a critical strategy for mobilizing neighborhood residents to influence major decisions that affect their quality of life. The need for organizing to keep pace with rapidly changing conditions in metropolitan Welcome regions is a theme that will be highlighted throughout Anthony M. Santomero, President, Federal Reserve the summit. This caucus offers a place for organizers Bank of Philadelphia to compare notes, tactics, and strategies about the challenges and opportunities they face. Organizers from all levels of experience are encouraged to participate in the caucus to meet and think together about how to make the most of the emerging regional equity movement. Facilitator Dwayne Marsh, Senior Associate, PolicyLink

Rural Opportunities and Policy Challenges This caucus offers an opportunity for rural policy players, researchers, and practitioners to network, build relationships, and start a process of peer technical assistance. Participants will lift up examples of current rural policy campaigns, best practices, and lessons learned that can be shared and built upon by other rural policy activists. Explore the political and policy agendas that can better connect rural america with other areas of the country and achieve economic and social equity. Facilitator Joe Brooks, Vice President for Civic Engagement, PolicyLink

20 21 Tuesday, May 24

8:30-10:00am 10:15-11:45am (concurrent sessions) Keynote Address Workshop Series Three: Leveraging Local, Regional, and State Policy Tuesday Speaker The Philadelphia Story Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour This panel offers a case study of our host region that with Jim Lehrer looks at efforts underway to promote greater economic prosperity and inclusion in Greater Philadelphia. The In this morning keynote address, Ray Suarez will offer session will review the key opportunities and challenges reflections on the media and its role in engaging the that confront Greater Philadelphia and will feature public about issues related to regional growth and initiatives being advanced at the local, regional, and Workshops development. state level to return Philadelphia—and indeed the whole state—to economic vibrancy. Hear from a diverse array of perspectives including the community development, social service, smart growth, and business communities. Moderator Beverly Coleman, Program Director, Philadelphia Neighborhood Development Collaborative Panelists • Sharmain Matlock-Turner, President, Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition • Janet Milkman, President and Chief Executive Officer, 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania • David B. Thornburgh, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Economy League, Southeastern Pennsylvania

The Double Bottom Line: Business Perspectives on Equitable Development Private sector leaders are essential partners in advancing regional equity. This session features a moderated discussion among business leaders who seek a double bottom line from their investments. Panelists share how they can receive necessary financial returns while creating community benefits such as good jobs, quality housing, environmentally sensitive production values, and increased opportunities for ownership and wealth building for residents. Participants will learn practical ideas on engaging business leaders in double bottom line discussions in their communities. Moderator George F. Knox, Senior Principal, The Knox Firm Panelists • Robert L. Harris, Vice President of Environmental Affairs, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) • Robert Milbourne, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Columbus Partnership

20 21 Rural and Urban Alliances for Action for Regional Equity: Economic Opportunity A Massachusetts Advocacy In many states across the nation, low-income rural Case Study and urban core communities face similar challenges For nearly three years, leading activists in Massachusetts such as economic crises and concentrated poverty. have been promoting policies that address affordable While their agendas for confronting these challenges housing, transit investment, and environmental may be similar, political alliances between rural justice. This work necessitates building partnerships and urban constituencies are rare. Where are the that transcend traditional geographic and issue connecting points for alliance-building and shared boundaries across individual neighborhoods and all leadership opportunities? Hear about experiences the way to the State House in . Discuss the that are equitable, environmentally sustainable, and challenges of working with diverse interests, benefit both rural and urban constituents and share stretching limited organizational resources, engaging insights on advancing strategies and building political a politically resistant culture, and the progress that alliances to promote economic growth and vitality. has been achieved: the first statewide policy Moderator campaigns led by Action! have begun to bring a wide Miriam Shark, Senior Associate, The Annie E. Casey array of community organizations into collective Foundation advocacy for regional equity. Panelists Moderator • Alan A. Gumbel, Founder, Gumbel & Associates Philip Bronder-Giroux, Executive Director, • Peter H. Pennekamp, Director, Humboldt Area Tri-Community Action Program, Inc. Foundation Panelists • Deborah B. Warren, Executive Director, Southern • Edward Becker, Executive Director, Essex County Rural Development Initiative Greenbelt Association • Lyn Billman-Golemme, Planning and Policy Promoting Equitable Consultant, Billman-Golemme Associates, and Vice Transportation Investments President for Legislation and Policy, American Federal and state transportation investments offer Planning Association, Massachusetts Chapter opportunities for influencing regional development. • Marvin Martin, Director, Greater Four Corners But too often, rather than reinvestment in existing Action Coalition infrastructure or public transit that can revitalize older communities, these resources are distributed in ways Sub/urban: Building Alliances for that encourage sprawl and disinvestment. Across the Metropolitan Equity country, coalitions are seeking to influence the way The inequities associated with sprawling development transportation dollars are allocated and to promote patterns harm not only urban centers, but increasingly reinvestment, greater mobility, and access to regional older, first-tier suburbs. In response, numerous opportunity for low-income people. Leading transit coalitions are emerging among urban and suburban advocates discuss what they are doing to achieve communities. This session examines the successes transportation equity. and challenges of organizing urban-suburban political Moderator alliances to advance regional equity. Panelists focus Hooper L. Brooks, Program Director for the on strategies that move a statewide policy agenda for Environment, Surdna Foundation regional impact, develop and motivate constituents, Panelists and sustain efforts over the long haul. • Robert D. Bullard, Ware Distinguished Professor of Moderator Sociology and Director, Environmental Justice Fred Blackwell, Deputy Director, Mayor’s Office of Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University Community Development, City and County of • Stuart Cohen, Co-founder and Executive Director, San Francisco Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC) Panelists • Judith Espinosa, Director, Alliance for Transportation • Martin P. Johnson, Founder and President, Isles, Inc. Research Institute, University of New Mexico • Sarah Lansdale, Executive Director, Sustainable Long Island • Conan Smith, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, 10th District, and Executive Director, Michigan Suburbs Alliance

22 23 Lessons from Los Angeles: 12:00-2:30pm (concurrent sessions) Managing Public Investment for Workshop Series Four: Growth and Equitable Development Building Skills and Crafting Effective Tactics With 10 million residents, Los Angeles County is the most populous county in the nation. It has grown by one million residents in the past 10 years, and is Forging Effective Cross-Sector expected to keep on growing. A variety of Collaborations: approaches are being employed to deal with the A Focus on Health Disparities challenges brought about by this growth, including infill development and the revitalization of urban Collaboration across diverse sectors is critical to neighborhoods. Hear about several equitable achieving regional equity. This session focuses on how development efforts underway and discuss how to build and maintain effective coalitions—including outreach, communications, leadership development,

lessons from these struggles are relevant for much of Tuesday the rest of the country. and balancing divergent perspectives. An analysis of a cross-sector collaboration to address health Moderator disparities brings on-the-ground perspective to the Sheri Dunn Berry, Principal, Sheri Dunn Berry session. Emphasis will be on understanding the Consulting intersection of a variety of community factors that Panelists impact health, the need for comprehensive strategies, • Stephen English, Co-director, Advancement Project and the role of philanthropy in funding broad scale Workshops • Tammy Bang Luu, Lead Organizer, Bus Riders Union, initiatives. Labor/Community Strategy Center Moderator • Manuel Pastor, Jr., Professor, Latin American and Mildred Thompson, Associate Director, PolicyLink Latino Studies, and Co-director, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community, University of California, Panelists Santa Cruz • George Khaldun, Chief Operating Officer, Harlem Children’s Zone • Rebecca Morley, Executive Director, National Center for Healthy Housing • Marion Standish, Director, Health Disparities, The California Endowment • Bill Walczak, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Codman Square Health Center

e-Advocacy: Effective Strategies for Policy Campaigns The 2004 elections underscored the rapid and dramatic emergence of e-advocacy as a tool for change. In particular, ballot campaigns demonstrated how a host of online techniques—emails, blogs, alerts, flash videos—can facilitate direct interaction and immediate action. Come see exciting examples of e-advocacy tools and explore how they can be used to advance your policy campaigns. Moderator Judith Bell, President, PolicyLink Panelists • Arnold Chandler, Research Associate, PolicyLink • David Chiu, Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Grassroots Enterprise, Inc. • Maya Harris, Associate Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) • Ellen Schneider, Founder and Executive Director, Active Voice • Rob Stuart, Senior Vice President, @DVOCACY, INC.

22 23 Communicating About Winning Affordable Housing Policies Regional Equity Most regions in the United States are in desperate Ongoing strategic communications plans and need of more affordable housing. Across the country, campaigns are essential to efforts to achieve policy community advocates and elected officials are change. Challenges to such efforts include limited pursuing the adoption of housing trust funds, organizational resources as well as media that appear inclusionary zoning, and mixed-income and transit- disinterested or uninformed about issues related to oriented developments to increase housing poverty and equity. The session will focus on building opportunities for low-income and moderate-income the skills necessary to develop effective messages, residents. Advocacy campaigns are critical to securing pitch stories, get placements, and deliver key messages affordable housing. Effective use of media, public to target audiences. Discuss how to develop internal events, community forums, lobbying, and press media resources and build relationships among conferences can move policymakers to adopt much traditional, ethnic, and alternative media. Learn high- needed housing measures. In this workshop, some of tech and no-tech tips for effectively making the case the nation’s leading state and local advocates share for regional equity. strategies to increase session participants’ efficacy in Moderator securing affordable housing. Janet Dewart Bell, Director of Communications, Moderator PolicyLink Kalima Rose, Associate Director, PolicyLink Panelists Panelists • Joan Grangenois-Thomas, Media Coordinator, • Hattie B. Dorsey, Founder, President, and Chief Douglas Gould and Company Executive Officer, Atlanta Neighborhood • Rinku Sen, Publisher, ColorLines Magazine, and Development Partnership Communications Director, Applied Research Center • Aaron Gornstein, Executive Director, Citizens’ • David Swanson, Board Member, Progressive Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) Democrats of America • Chip Halbach, Co-founder and Executive Director, Minnesota Housing Partnership But Did it Make a Difference? • Jaimie Ross, Affordable Housing Director, 1000 Evaluation and Indicators Friends of Florida Are you interested in measuring or documenting the The Advocate: Tools and Strategies outcomes of your organization’s work? Do you wonder how funders, evaluators, and researchers for Progressive Policy Change capture the important facts and trends in your This session provides an introduction to the policy community? This session helps demystify evaluation, process, advocacy tools, and useful strategies for new indicators, and other methods and measures used to advocates, and provides an opportunity for long-time assess progress and make the case for neighborhood advocates to network with one another, identify revitalization and regional equity. The panelists are useful resources, and share helpful strategies. Small leaders of innovative community-based research and group discussions with advocates working on similar evaluation projects, and provide first-hand accounts issues will focus on strategies and experiences in of how residents are engaged in this work. The choosing goals, organizing a coalition, gathering and session gives examples of how data can galvanize using research, building public will, and working public interest, improve practice, and leverage greater effectively with policymakers. philanthropic resources. Moderator Moderators Rebecca Flournoy, Senior Associate, PolicyLink Craig Howard, Vice President and Director, Low- Panelists Wage Workers and Working Communities Policy • David Arizmendi, Executive Director, Proyecto Azteca Area, MDRC • Brian Kettenring, Southern Regional Director, Victor Rubin, Director of Research, PolicyLink Association of Community Organizations for Reform Panelists Now (ACORN) • Maggie Grieve, Senior Manager, Success Measures, • Mark Pedulla, Tenant Organizer, City Life/Vida Urbana NeighborWorks America • Lisette Islas, Director of Community Organizing, Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation • Phuonglan Nguyen, Co-coordinator, Community Learning Network, Making Connections-Denver

24 25 Exploring New Information Sustainable Agriculture Tour Systems: GIS as an Advocacy Tool According to a recent report prepared by the Successful advocacy is increasingly being supported Brookings Institution, “Few states possess either the by a wide variety of data analysis and display systems. greater potential or more troubling history of recent This session reviews the latest desktop and web- underachievement than Pennsylvania.” As the third- based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and slowest growing state in the nation, it developed the data analysis tools for policy advocacy. Presenters sixth-largest amount of land and consumed more showcase GIS projects developed by nonprofits, farmland and natural space per new resident than universities, public-nonprofit partnerships, and the every state but Wyoming. Using metropolitan Lancaster private sector. Experience some of the most powerful as a case study, this site visit explores what has applications and learn how strategic mapping tools happened in the state and what is being done to can be used to advance regional equity. reverse it by drawing on the perspective of individuals who are fighting the trend. Leaders from diverse

Moderator Tuesday sectors—Lancaster County’s Amish farming Josh Kirschenbaum, Senior Associate, PolicyLink community, an economic development revitalization Panelists corporation, a smart growth builder, the County’s • Tom Kingsley, Principal Research Associate, The Blue Ribbon Committee for Agriculture, and municipal Urban Institute government —will address the participants. Stops • Patrick J. McGuigan, Executive Director, The include a visit to Springwater Farm and Lancaster’s Providence Plan Central Market—the country’s oldest publicly-owned, • Myron Orfield, Director, Institute on Race and Poverty, Workshops continuously-operated farmers market. University of Minnesota • Kathryn Pettit, Research Associate, The Urban Note: There are a limited number of seats available Institute based on a first-come, first-served basis. Please sign • Jason Reece, Research Associate, Kirwan Institute for up at the registration desk. Participants must meet at the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University the registration desk no later than 12:15pm. The bus • Neal Richman, Associate Director, UCLA Advanced will return to the convention center at 7:00pm. Policy Institute

Moderator Cathy Weiss, Executive Director, Claneil Foundation Speakers • Ronald Bailey, Executive Director, Campaign to Renew Pennsylvania • Robert Bowman, President, Charter Homes Group and Member, Blue Ribbon Committee for Agriculture • Michael Brubaker, President, Brubaker Corporation; Member, Blue Ribbon Committee for Agriculture • Caroline Novak, Consultant, Lancaster Farmland Trust • Rose Smith, Director, Central Market • Alvin Stoltzfus, Owner, Springwater Farm • Jane Thomas, Director, Inner City Group • Judy Wicks, President, White Dog Café Foundation • Daniel Zimmerman, Manager, Warwick Township

24 25 2:45-4:15pm (concurrent sessions) Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSES) Workshop Series Five: • Heaster Wheeler, Executive Director, Detroit Branch, Strategic Alliances, Public Will, and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Community Organizing, Part I Advancing Environmental Justice Inclusionary Zoning Campaigns for Across Regions Diverse Communities Regional dynamics affect land, air, and water quality Inclusionary zoning (IZ) is increasingly used as a policy in communities across the country. Environmental tool for creating affordable housing by setting aside justice advocates are addressing these dynamics by affordable units in new or rehabilitated housing building strong coalitions, speaking out, and working developments. In the process, IZ also promotes the with a variety of partners to reach their goals. creation of mixed-income communities. In this Panelists will talk about the strategies and networks session, panelists discuss campaigns underway in that hold the most promise for achieving greater Chicago, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, and environmental justice in regions across the nation. Washington, D.C., sharing their successes, how they Moderator are overcoming roadblocks, and how to build public Arlene Rodriguez, Program Officer for the will for this important affordable housing tool. Environment, The San Francisco Foundation Moderator Panelists Radhika Fox, Senior Associate, PolicyLink • Deeohn Ferris, President, Global Environmental Panelists Resources Inc. • Nicholas J. Brunick, Director, Regional Affordable • Peggy Shepard, Executive Director and Co-founder, Housing Initiative, Business and Professional People West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT) for the Public Interest • Willena Cannon, Safe House Community Organizer, • Julie Miles, Director, New York City Campaign for Greesboro Housing Coalition Inclusionary Zoning • Doug Shoemaker, Deputy Director, Non-profit Messaging and Framing: Housing Association of Northern California (NPH) • Joslyn N. Williams, President, Metropolitan Engaging the Public in the Regional Washington Council, American Federation of Labor - Development Discourse Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) While the number of individuals and organizations working to achieve regional equity and smart growth Detroit: is on the rise, their efforts have not yet captured the Re-establishing the Motor City as widespread media attention that is necessary to engage the general public in the need for policy the Engine for Regional change. Attracting media attention and reaching Development desired audiences requires developing and framing Facing tremendous impediments to economic key messages in ways that are compelling and cogent recovery, community, business, and political leaders and that underscore their relevance to the lives of all have begun to advance strategies that promote people, including those in low-income neighborhoods greater prosperity among all residents in Detroit and and communities of color. In this session, panelists the broader region. This session addresses the explore why successful communications strategies unbalanced development patterns that have created begin with an understanding of the importance of challenges for regional equity and highlight emerging messaging and framing to regional equity strategies for economic recovery that advance social, and smart growth issues as vital to local, state, and economic, and racial equity. Leaders from some of federal policy conversations. the region’s most powerful and innovative institutions Moderator will discuss essential components of the regional David Brancaccio, Host, NOW equity agenda for the Motor City: inclusive Panelists transportation policies, land use reforms that level the • Michael Goldberg, Principal, Action Media and playing field for development, city-suburb alliances, Consultant, Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and and addressing race and regionalism. Livable Communities Moderator • Roberto Lovato, Writer, Pacific News Service Anika Goss-Foster, Program Director, Detroit Office, Local Initiatives Support Coalition Panelists • Charlene M. Crowell, Lansing and Detroit Policy Specialist, Michigan Land Use Institute • Ponsella Hardaway, Executive Director, Metropolitan

26 27 Securing Community Benefits Racial and Cultural Competencies Agreements in Advocacy Work Community benefits agreements (CBAs) have This workshop explores the racial and cultural emerged as a powerful equitable development tensions often present in the struggle to promote strategy by providing community members the means regional equity. Advancing equity touches on to ensure that public investments result in defined sensitive issues of wealth, race, and class. How do public benefits tailored to community needs. This advocates develop the cultural competencies needed session examines best practices from completed and to promote inclusion and build diverse community promising CBAs, drawing on the perspectives of leadership? Attention to this human dimension of community-based organizations in California, New social change is central to effectively building lasting York, and Wisconsin. coalitions for addressing longstanding inequities in Moderator communities. Discuss strategies to address these issues and effectively engage all residents in policy

Brad Lander, Director, Pratt Institute Center for Tuesday Community and Environmental Development advocacy, with particular emphasis on low-income Panelists people and communities of color. Lessons from the • John Goldstein, President, Milwaukee County Labor Twin Cities, the Mississippi Delta, and the nation’s Council capital demonstrate promising practices for further • Madeline Janis-Aparicio, Co-founder and Executive consideration. Director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Moderator

(LAANE) Jesse Leon, Program Manager, Funders’ Network for Workshops • Jerilyn López Mendoza, Policy Director, Los Angeles Smart Growth and Livable Communities Office, Environmental Defense Panelists • Maura Brown, Director of Organizing, Alliance for Friends in High Places: Metropolitan Stability Administrative and Legislative • Justin Kii Huenemann, American Indian Families Alliances Project • Freeman McKindra, Sr., Community Liaison, Office of Elected and appointed officials are working to Community-Based Public Health, College of Public promote sustainable, equitable regional development Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences through strategic alliances with community partners • Marian Urquilla, Director, Columbia Heights/Shaw and advocates. This open dialogue presents their Family Support Collaborative inside perspectives and experiences and how outside influences can play a critical role in policy decisions. Moderator Nick Bollman, Founder and President, California 4:30-6:00pm (concurrent caucuses) Center for Regional Leadership Issue, Geographic, and Strategy Caucuses Panelists • Representative Dwight Evans, Chair, Democratic Appropriations Committee, Pennsylvania House of Representatives • Parris N. Glendening, President, Smart Growth Starting at the Grassroots: Leadership Institute, and Former Governor, State of How to Put ‘Regional’ Maryland in Community Building Civic engagement is an important strategy for linking grassroots community efforts to regional initiatives aimed at creating healthy neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan regions. Community builders have many strategies and lessons to share about how advocacy efforts can build civic capacity and achieve equitable policy outcomes. The National Community Building Network (NCBN) invites you to a conversation among practitioners, advocates, and funders that will clarify the role of grassroots community building in creating meaningful regional equity policy agendas. Facilitator Thomas Watson, Board Member, National Community Building Network, and Co-founder, Center for Participatory Change

26 27 Pennsylvania Community advance understanding of how funders can make a Development Caucus difference in this critical arena. The RNEP is chaired by Carl Anthony of the Ford Foundation. Is community development well represented at decision-making tables in Pennsylvania? Do you and Facilitator your colleagues have a coherent message about Jesse Leon, Program Manager, Regional and the value of your work? Do you feel the community Neighborhood Equity Project, Funders’ Network for development field has the tools necessary for Smart Growth and Livable Communities community revitalization? These are the questions you and your colleagues from around the Communicating about Growth and Commonwealth will discuss as you learn about Development efforts and opportunities to advocate for community Participants in this session will have the opportunity development at the regional and state level. This to go deeper in exploring effective ways to talk in caucus will bring together rural, urban, and suburban public about growth and development issues. The community development organizations, advocates, caucus will complement two other sessions on funders, and intermediaries in Pennsylvania to share communications, messaging, and framing being held experiences working on state and regional policy at the summit. Informed by work commissioned by issues. Representatives from 10,000 Friends the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable of Pennsylvania, Rural Local Initiatives Support Communities over the past 18 months and dozens of Corporation, the Philadelphia Association of focus groups and training sessions, materials and Community Development Corporations, and the tools will be presented at this session that can help Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network will share improve communications about regional equity and information about some of the efforts already smart growth. Work being done in Greater Philadelphia underway that you can tap into. around the key issue of housing affordability— Facilitator a critical regional and neighborhood equity issue— Elizabeth Lynn, Senior Program Officer, McCune will be showcased during the caucus. The work is Foundation being supported by the William Penn Foundation. Facilitator Housing Advocacy Strategy Caucus Michael Goldberg, Principal, Action Media, and An opportunity for housing advocates from around Consultant, Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and the country to gather and share success stories, Livable Communities challenges, and strategies. Are you working to create a local housing trust fund? Win inclusionary zoning? Community GIS Innovations: Another housing advocacy issue? Bring materials The Importance of Parcel Mapping from your campaign and be prepared to tell your and Data Collection story. The session will open with a brief overview of Innovations in community-based uses of mapping the advocacy elements of the Philadelphia Housing technology abound as web-based GIS applications Trust Fund Campaign. are being used to track, analyze, and help manage Facilitator important community information. This caucus will Sue Sierra, Policy Coordinator, Philadelphia showcase two premier parcel-based GIS systems from Association of Community Development Corporations Los Angeles, California (LOTS by the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge at UCLA) and Philadelphia, The Regional and Neighborhood Pennsylvania (The Philadelphia Neighborhood Equity Project Information System by the Cartographic Modeling Since the first summit in Los Angeles in 2002, Lab at the University of Pennsylvania). Participants philanthropic leaders have been working together to with parcel-based GIS applications are invited to join strengthen their efforts, learn from each other, and and share their mapping systems, as are participants better understand how to frame the issues of wanting to learn about the latest technological regional and neighborhood equity to provide more innovations. resources and accelerate progress. Participants in this Facilitator caucus will hear about the work of the Funders’ Josh Kirschenbaum, Senior Associate, PolicyLink Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities and its Regional and Neighborhood Equity Project (RNEP), an action-oriented network of funders working to ensure that regional and neighborhood equity is advanced through the smart growth and livable communities movement. The RNEP project is documenting promising practices, enabling learning from key regions, and producing information to

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8:00-9:30am 9:45-11:15am (concurrent sessions) Philanthropic Roundtable Discussion Workshop Series Six: Strategic Alliances, Public Will, and Community Organizing, Part II Wednesday This plenary roundtable gives you the chance to Promoting Housing Opportunity participate in a question-and-answer session with Across Regions philanthropic leaders who are working to build more One troubling consequence of regional development equitable and inclusive neighborhoods and regions. patterns is the continued segregation of housing by The session will begin with brief reflections from each income and race. These trends have tremendous panelist, followed by questions from the audience, impact on low-income people and communities of and a moderated discussion. If you would like to pose Workshops color, limiting their access to quality housing, positive a question to the panelists, please fill out a card at employment, educational attainment, and other the registration desk. Because of the large number of economic opportunities. Achieving racially-integrated, summit attendees, cards written before the session economically-diverse housing in communities will be given priority during the session. throughout a region requires a combination of skills: Moderator effective advocacy, strategic policy goals, consistent James O. Gibson, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study monitoring, and creative development approaches. of Social Policy Learn what some of the nation’s leading housing Panelists advocates, researchers, and policymakers are doing to • Christine A.W. Doby, Program Officer, Pathways Out promote the equitable distribution of affordable of Poverty Program, The Charles Stewart Mott housing across regions. Foundation Moderator • Paul S. Grogan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kalima Rose, Associate Director, PolicyLink The Boston Foundation Panelists • Feather O. Houstoun, President, The William Penn • David J. Harris, Executive Director, Fair Housing Foundation Center of Greater Boston • Sheila F. Maith, Managing Director, Policy and • Rolf Pendall, Associate Professor and Director of Leadership Development, Fannie Mae Foundation Graduate Studies, Department of City and Regional • Scot T. Spencer, Senior Associate and Manager of Planning, Cornell University Baltimore Relations, The Annie E. Casey Foundation • Peter O’Connor, Executive Director, Fair Share • Darren Walker, Director, Working Communities, The Housing Center and Fair Share Housing Development Rockefeller Foundation

28 29 Faith in Action: Philanthropy as Partners: Congregational Perspectives on Funders’ Perspectives on Regional Advancing Regional Equity and Neighborhood Equity During the last several years, some of the nation’s Building on a plenary session earlier in the agenda, preeminent faith-based organizing networks have this session allows for a deeper discussion regarding embraced regional equity to address issues facing the roles of philanthropy in advancing social and their communities. There is power in organized economic equity. Foundation representatives discuss constituencies and low-income, low-wealth families how they think about this work and the challenges are often organized through their faith institutions. they face in making the case for grantmaking in this This workshop reflects on how regional equity issues area. Learn what grantees can do to help them are viewed by faith-based organizations, how support this work. congregations can help ensure that all individuals and Moderator families can participate in and benefit from economic Elizabeth R. Lynn, Senior Program Officer, McCune growth and activity throughout regions, and how Foundation more voices from the faith community can be added Panelists to regional equity discussions and policy debates. • Dan Bartholomay, Program Director, The McKnight Moderator Foundation Gordon Goodwin, Principal Consultant, Development • Mariano Diaz, Senior Vice President, Community Solutions Partnerships, The San Diego Foundation Panelists • Lorne Steedley, Program Associate, The Annie E. • Mary Gonzales, California Director, Gamaliel Casey Foundation Foundation • Lucille L. McEwen, President and Chief Executive The Wal-Mart Effect: Building the Officer, Harlem Congregations for Community Momentum to Respond Improvement, Inc. Wal-Mart has become the largest private employer in • Reverend Andre L. Shumake, Sr., President, Richmond both the United States and Mexico, and a global Improvement Association economic power. As the retail giant further expands in rural communities, reaches into new urban markets, Community Factors that Impact and strengthens its philanthropic and public relations Health: New Allies, New Messages initiatives, the “Wal-Mart Effect” on local communities At the intersection of health, community, and region, has galvanized academics, policymakers, the media, advocates are finding powerful new allies and making organized labor, and community organizers around convincing arguments about the many factors that the world. Low-income communities struggle with contribute to health and well-being. Access to the difficult choice of whether to support a low-wage, affordable housing, stores and services, public transit, non-union employer, or oppose what is sometimes and healthy air, water, and land are all factors their only opportunity for local retail and jobs. that affect health and are profoundly influenced by Panelists present multiple sides of this issue, with regional economic and development dynamics. a discussion that seeks to move beyond polarizing Find out how advocates for health, housing, and aspects of the Wal-Mart debate. environmental justice are crossing issue boundaries Moderator to build strong communities. Panelists and Liza Featherstone, Author and Journalist, Selling participants will explore some of the unique needs Women : The Landmark Battle for Workers’ of urban and tribal communities and learn about Rights at Wal-Mart promising practices to strengthen these communities. Panelists Moderator • Joe Alvarez, Director, Northeast Region, American Jamie Bussel, Program Associate, The Robert Wood Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Johnson Foundation Organizations (AFL-CIO) Panelists • Reverend Joseph C. Kyles, Founder and Pastor, Heirs • Lance Morgan, Chief Executive Officer, Ho-Chunk, of the Promise Church, Chicago, and Chairman, 37th Inc. Ward Pastors’ Alliance • Leda Perez, Director, Community Voices Miami, • Greg LeRoy, Executive Director, Good Jobs First Collins Center for Public Policy • Mildred Thompson, Associate Director, PolicyLink

30 31 Demonstrating the Struggle for Regional Equity in Camden, New Jersey 11:30am-12:30pm Devastated by the social and economic restructuring Closing Plenary of urban America, Camden is a city struggling with Leadership for Policy Change poverty, crime, and environmental degradation. The State of New Jersey has highlighted the shared local, regional, and state interest in having Camden This closing session features a cross-section of revitalized with the implementation of a five-year, summit participants reflecting on their experiences $175 million receivership. Hear about the “inside during the event and collectively challenging us to game” of rebuilding Camden as a regional asset, the advance the regional equity movement even more “outside game” of addressing the structural and vigorously. They share insights about lessons learned,

political forces perpetuating disparities, and about new relationships formed, and strategic priorities Wednesday efforts to link people with opportunity throughout identified. This session pays particular attention to the region that are underway. Hear about the how the role of leadership, at all levels, contributes challenges and lessons learned from people trying to to meaningful policy change. make regional equity a reality on the ground. Moderator Rebecca Riley, Consultant, Community and Resource

Development Unit, The Ford Foundation Workshops Panelists • Kara J. Coleman, Acting Executive Director, Alliance for the Revitalization of Camden City (ARCC) • Jeremy Novak, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Reinvestment Fund • Melvin R. Primas, Chief Operating Officer, City of Camden, New Jersey • Paul Scully, Executive Director, New Jersey Regional Coalition

Gentrification: The Unfinished Agenda After receiving significant attention in the mid-to- late-nineties, the issue of gentrification faded slightly from the national spotlight. Yet as thousands of low- income and moderate-income residents can attest, the problem is far from solved. As the decisions that drive the displacement of longstanding community members from neighborhoods undergoing revitalization become increasingly regional in nature, organizers and advocates are tailoring their strategies and tactics. See how neighborhood, regional, and state advocacy has adjusted to the evolving character of gentrification, and how civic engagement has become even more important in advancing policies that prevent displacement. Moderator Chantel L. Walker, Director of Programs and Evaluation, Marguerite Casey Foundation Panelists • Nancy Aardema, Executive Director, Logan Square Neighborhood Association • Dwayne Marsh, Senior Associate, PolicyLink • Karen Moore, Executive Director, Miami County Dade Task Force for Urban Revitalization

30 31 Advancing Regional Equity: The Second National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth Authors’ Showcase and Book Signing

Summit participants will have an opportunity to meet some of the panelists who have published books focused on economic and social justice issues. Their books will be available for purchase and the authors available to sign them at designated below. Visit the publications area located near the breakout rooms at the 200 level of the Convention Center.

32 Book Signing Schedule

date / time author / book

Monday, May 23

2:45 – 3:45pm Angela Glover Blackwell, Stewart Kwoh, Manuel Pastor Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America

3:45 – 4:45pm Bruce Katz Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000

4:45 – 5:45pm Sheryll Cashin The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream

Tuesday, May 24

10:15 – 11:00am Ray Suarez Book Signing The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999

12:15 – 1:15pm Robert Bullard Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New Routes to Equity

1:30 – 2:30pm Liza Featherstone Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart

3:00 – 4:00pm Myron Orfield American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability

4:00 – 5:00pm David Rusk Cities without Suburbs: A Census 2000 Update Inside Game/Outside Game

33 Descriptions of Books (in alphabetical order by author)

Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class New Dimensions on Race in America Are Undermining the American Dream Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and Chief Executive Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law, Georgetown Officer, PolicyLink; University Law Center Stewart Kwoh, President and Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Center; and The Failures of Integration is a provocative look at Manuel Pastor, Executive Director, Center for Justice, how segregation by race and class is ruining Tolerance, and Community, University of California, American democracy. Only a small affluent minority Santa Cruz are truly living the American Dream, complete with attractive, job-rich suburbs, reasonably low taxes, Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New good public schools, and little violent crime. For the Dimensions on Race in America, the fourth in The remaining majority of , segregation comes American Assembly’s Uniting America Series, explores with stratospheric costs. In a society that sets up new aspects of the search for racial justice in the “winner” and “loser” communities and schools twenty-first century. The authors propose solutions defined by race and class, racial minorities in to such continuing problems of inequity as the digital particular are locked out of the “winner” column. divide, an unfair criminal justice system, and the African-Americans bear the heaviest burden. negative racial impact of uncontrolled sprawl. The book challenges Americans to aim for the highest levels of unity, the uncommon common ground. Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart Liza Featherstone, Journalist Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New Routes to Equity On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling Robert Bullard, PhD, Ware Distinguished Professor of women delighted with their jobs. But reality is Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a 52-year-old Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University black woman in Pittsburgh, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class In the United States, not all communities receive the action representing 1.4 million women. In an same benefits from transportation advancements and explosive investigation of this historic lawsuit, Liza investments. For more than a century, African Featherstone reveals how Wal-Mart, a self-styled Americans and other people of color have struggled “family-oriented, Christian company” exploits to dismantle transportation policies that promote and their employees. exacerbate racial and economic disparities and social exclusion. The modern civil rights movement has its Featherstone reveals the creative solutions Wal-Mart roots in transportation. Decisions to build highways, workers around the country have found to this expressways, and beltways have far-reaching effects exploitation—like fighting for unions, living-wage on land use, energy policy, and the environment. ordinances, and childcare options. Selling Women Similarly, the decisions by county commissioners to Short tells the personal stories of these employees limit and even exclude public transit to job-rich and uses superb investigative journalism to show suburban economic centers have serious mobility why women who work in low-wage jobs are getting implications for central city residents. Highway a raw deal, and what they are doing about it. Robbery presents case studies that call into question the fairness and legality of many of our nation’s transportation policies, practices, and procedures and offers corrective solutions.

34 Redefining Urban and Suburban America: In Inside Game/Outside Game, Rusk argues that Evidence from Census 2000 focusing solely on programs aimed at improving Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan inner-city neighborhoods—playing only the “inside Policy and the Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair game”—is a losing strategy. Achieving real in Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings improvement requires matching the “inside game” Institution with a strong “outside game” of regional strategies to overcome growing fiscal disparities, concentrated The first volume in the Redefining Urban and Suburban poverty, and urban sprawl. Rusk argues that state America series focused on population growth and government action is particularly critical where decline, and dramatic changes occurring in the racial regions are highly-fragmented by many competing and ethnic makeup of cities and suburbs. This second city, village, and township governments. Rusk volume focuses on an even richer set of subjects provides vivid success stories that demonstrate from Census 2000 and makes clear that regional best practices for these regional strategies along differences add texture to these broader social and with recommendations for building effective economic trends. Using data from the Census “long regional coalitions. form,” the contributors probe migration, income and poverty, and housing trends in the nation’s largest cities and metropolitan areas. The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration 1966-1999 Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour American Metropolitics: The New Suburban with Jim Lehrer Reality and Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability In The Old Neighborhood, Ray Suarez examines the Myron Orfield, Executive Director, Institute on Race social and economic factors that have turned our and Poverty, University of Minnesota oldest and largest cities into urban orphans. He discusses how changes in race, religion, and economy

In American Metropolitics, Myron Orfield applies have transformed our cities from clusters of close-knit Book Signing revolutionary mapping and demographic research to communities to places where no one seems to want to an eye-opening analysis of the economic, racial, live. The pedantic possibility of such a story is avoided environmental, and political trends of the 25 largest through Suarez’s artful use of personal experience and metropolitan regions in the United States. In vignettes by current and former city residents. Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community Stability, Orfield offers a thorough analysis of Suarez selects the cities of Chicago, Philadelphia, metropolitan development trends and concentrates Cleveland, and the District of Columbia for more on the example of Minneapolis/St. Paul for an analysis in-depth analysis. The common thread tying together that is applicable to other parts of the United States. the plight of these cities is the phenomenon of Orfield presents useful strategies for improving “great white flight” and the willingness of realtors schools, creating affordable housing, protecting the to profit from this fear and fact by “block busting” environment, and improving quality of life. neighborhoods whenever a minority family moved in. Together with the decreased importance of the church as a cohesive mechanism and the loss of Cities without Suburbs: A Census 2000 Update industry and the jobs it provides, Suarez chronicles and Inside Game/Outside Game how these cities have lost half their population in David Rusk, Urban Policy Consultant the last 50 years.

First published in 1993, Cities without Suburbs has become an influential analysis of America’s cities among city planners, scholars, and the general public alike. It has been called “the Bible of the regionalism movement” by the Congressional Quarterly. This third edition is among the first books of any kind to employ information from the 2000 U.S. Census. While refining his argument with new data covering the period from 1950 to 2000, Rusk assesses the major trends of the 1990s, including the perceived rebound of central cities, the impact of Hispanic and Asian immigration, the growing similarities of older “inner- ring” suburbs to central cities, and the emerging influence of faith-based regional reform movements.

35 Advancing Regional Equity: The Second National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth Screening Room HP i-Café

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Developed by: Developed by: PolicyLink, Active Voice, the Funders’ Network for The Hewlett Packard Company, PolicyLink, Smart Growth and Livable Communities, and the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media and Livable Communities.

What does regional equity look like? Would you Got Internet? like to be able to visualize it for yourself and your Come visit the HP i-Café with 40 Internet-ready constituents? workstations where you can stay connected to your office, test drive new software applications, and get During the summit, the Screening Room will feature the latest updates on equity activities. clips and previews from a collection of the latest documentary films, GIS applications, and e-advocacy Hours: tools. Summit organizers worked with Active Voice Monday, May 23, 8:00am - 6:00pm and Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media to Tuesday, May 24, 7:30am - 6:00pm (closed 12:00 - 3:30pm for session) bring to the summit over 20 samples of video and Wednesday, May 25, 7:30am - 12:30pm multimedia tools that can help practitioners and policymakers bring the concept of regional equity into sharp focus, humanize complex issues, engage diverse constituents, and advance policy campaigns.

The Screening Room opens following the Monday morning plenary and will continually present excerpts from dynamic titles that address such issues as the history of housing segregation, regional health disparities, the impact of immigrant labor, and much more.

Consult the schedule for times and the filmography that follows for program descriptions. Space is limited; seats will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

36 Screening Room Schedule

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date / time film / director

Monday, May 23

10:45 – 11:15am Divided We Sprawl Andrea Torrice, Director

11:15 – 11:45am Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story William Kavanaugh, Director

11:45 – 12:15pm Wal-Mart Double Feature: Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes To Town Micha Peled, Director; and Frontline: Is Wal-Mart Good For America? Rick Young, Director

2:45 – 3:15pm The New Americans Steve James and Gordon Quinn, Executive Producers Gita Saedi, Series Producer

3:15 – 3:45pm Fenceline: A Company Town Divided Slawomir Grunberg and Jane Greenberg, Directors

3:45 – 4:15pm Taken for a Ride

Jim Klein, Director Screening Room

4:30 – 5:15pm Race: The Power of An Illusion (Episode 3, The House We Live In) Llewellyn Smith, Director

5:15 – 6:00pm GIS Demonstration: Local, State, and National Mapping Systems Come get a sneak preview of the Exploring New Information Systems: GIS as an Advocacy Tool workshop. This session will highlight some of the nation’s leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) developed to illustrate regional equity. Short presentations will be made on maps developed by the Community Mapping Assistance Project, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Institute on Race and Policy, the Kirwan Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and others.

37 date / time film / director

Tuesday, May 24

10:15 – 10:45am Flag Wars Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras, Directors

10:45 – 11:15am Edens Lost and Found Dale Bell and Harry Wiland, Producers

11:15 – 11:45am Imagining Home: Stories of Columbia Villa Sue Arbuthnot, Director

12:00 – 2:00pm California and the American Dream

12:00 – 12:30pm The Price of Renewal Paul Espinosa, Director

12:30 – 1:00pm Return of the Lost Tribes Jed Riffe, Director

1:00 – 1:30pm Against the Grain: Sustainability, Agriculture, and the Food We Eat Emiko Omori, Director

1:30 – 2:00pm Los Angeles: The City of Tomorrow Lyn Goldfarb, Director

2:00 – 2:30pm The Best of Third World Newsreel Third World Newsreel (TWN) is an alternative media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation, and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color. This session will showcase clips from four films: The Mississippi Triangle by Christine Choy, Alan Siegel, and Worth Long; My Grandmother Worked by Latrice Dixon; Claiming Open Spaces by Austin Allen; and The Case Against Lincoln Center by Newsreel.

Wednesday, May 25

9:45 – 10:15am Farmingville Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini, Directors

10:15 – 10:45am e-Advocacy Showcase Through a review of online videos, flash animation, and content from several advocacy websites, this session will preview how multimedia content is being used to support an array of advocacy goals and campaigns.

10:45 – 11:15am The Fire Next Time Patrice O’Neill, Director

38 Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story (2005) is a one- hour television documentary about contemporary race relations and the persistence of racial segregation in American life. Through the eyes of three different families, the film shows how one city’s struggle brought about a landmark federal ruling against Multimedia housing segregation. at the Summit “I am pleased to express my admiration for this film and my strong conviction that it does an excellent job of helping people understand important substantive Independent Films that Put a Human Face and procedural issues in America today.” on Regional Equity —Representative Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts

Contact information: Kavanagh Productions Inc. Tel: 212/480-0065 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.kavanaghproductions.com

California and the American Dream (early 2006) explores the dynamics of culture, identity, and civic engagement within the most multiethnic state in America. California is now a microcosm for an emerging global culture and offers a tantalizing glimpse into the future with lessons, warnings, and reassurances for the nation and the world. This four- part PBS series opens windows onto the complex, daunting, but frequently rewarding process of building civil society under conditions that are both unique and universal.

—Los Angeles: The City of Tomorrow Screening Room Los Angeles is the nation’s largest and most diverse city, but it wasn’t always this way. The film begins in 1969 with Tom Bradley’s mayoral campaign, which set in motion the complex interplay of race, immigration, and coalition politics that transformed Los Angeles. The story profiles a new political empowerment of Latinos and labor as they work with multicultural coalitions advocating social and economic justice, and accountable development.

—Against the Grain: Sustainability, Agriculture, and the Foods We Eat California introduced fast foods, industrial farming, genetically modified produce, and direct marketing of fast food to school children. Now the state has stepped up to lead a different kind of food revolution: organic and sustainable farming. This program will track the spirit and strengths of this new movement and establish California as a global leader in today’s food debates.

39 —The Price of Renewal Claiming Open Spaces (1995) explores African- What is gained and what is lost when a community American culture as it clashes with the modern develops and improves itself through a partnership American city. The film is both a critical examination with public and private entities? Local residents, of the design and histories of American urban open investors, and government officials in a San Diego space and a celebration of leisure, recreation, inner city neighborhood describe extraordinary gains and resistance. in crime prevention and improved infrastructure. Others in the community say this ‘successful’ urban Distributed by: renewal project has driven up housing costs, forced Third World Newsreel out long-term residents, and alienated local 545 Eighth Avenue, 10th floor entrepreneurs. The film examines the double-edged New York, NY 10018 sword of redevelopment and profiles an improbable Michelle Materre, Distribution Director alliance of groups and individuals working together Tel: 212/947-9277, ext. 308 to craft a vibrant urban village from an ethnically, E-mail: [email protected] culturally, and economically diverse population. Web: www.twn.org

—Return of the Lost Tribes Native people in California paid a high price for the Divided We Sprawl (2005) uses stories of people on dreams of Europeans who rushed into the state and the frontlines of change to examine, in a two-hour claimed its resources as their own. Efforts by American documentary, how land use policies promoting subur- Indians to find sustainable economic opportunities banization have devoured open space and farms and resulted in the landmark 1987 U.S. Supreme is destroying cities. The film uses six key portraits to Court decision opening the door to Indian gaming take us on a journey—from the rust belt and the sun- nationwide. belt, and east and west—that reveals how we have become a more divided country even as we become a Contact information: more suburban nation. The program also offers hope California and the American Dream by pointing to people engaged in a growing move- Tel: 323/669-1106; 510/845-2044 ment of civil rights and environmental activists who Web: www.beyondthedream.org are proposing more balanced housing, land-use, and transportation polices to achieve regional equity.

The Case Against Lincoln Center (1968) examines Contact information: the plight of more than 20,000 Latino families who Torrice Productions were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home Tel: 513/751-7050 to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York E-mail: [email protected] Symphony. This film examines the “patrons of art” complex built by corporations and wealthy families and the culture displayed there. In shots juxtaposing the atmosphere of Lincoln Center with the vibrant street culture of the displaced neighborhood, the film documents the process by which the West Side was turned into a high-rent area for the upper middle class.

Distributed by: Third World Newsreel Edens Lost & Found (2005), a two-hour public 545 Eighth Avenue, 10th floor television documentary that will premiere in the Fall of New York, NY 10018 2005, highlights practical solutions and models for Michelle Materre, Distribution Director urban transformation that go beyond pollution preven- Tel: 212/947-9277, ext. 308 tion to tackle the challenge of improving the quality E-mail: [email protected] of life in cities for ourselves and future generations. Web: www.twn.org Edens Lost & Found “...will demonstrate how individual choices and new ecological approaches are working to reshape and improve our cities. This project will go beyond the theme of urban rebirth; it will also enlighten viewers on how their environment influences their quality of life. It is always a pleasure to have programming that strives to encourage viewers to make a difference in their communities.” —Sandy Heberer, Senior Director, PBS

40 Produced and distributed by: Harry Wiland Media & Policy Center Foundation Tel: 310/828-2966 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.wilandbellprod.com

The Fire Next Time (2005) captures the reaction of Farmingville (2004) tells the story of the shocking the people of the Flathead Valley in Montana who hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day were stunned when a domestic terror cell’s plot to laborers that catapulted a small Long Island town into kill local leaders was uncovered. Ex-cop Brenda national headlines and unmasked a new front line in Kitterman and conservationist Mike Raiman wanted the border wars: surburbia. For nearly a year, the to do something to address the local tensions, but filmmakers lived and worked in Farmingville, New the community was torn. Over a stormy two-year York, so they could capture first-hand the stories of period, The Fire Next Time follows a deeply divided residents, day laborers, and activists. group of Montana citizens caught in a web of conflicts intensified by rapid growth and the power “Farmingville is a primer for anyone—whether of talk radio. lawmaker or citizen—who cares to better understand the usually unseen cost of America’s appetite for Produced and distributed by: cheap labor.” The Working Group —Carolyn Curiel, Tel: 510/268-9675, ext. 300 E-mail: [email protected] Distributed by: Web: www.theworkinggroup.org Docurama Tel: 212/206-8600 Web: www.docurama.com

Fenceline (2002) follows the story of Margie Richard, who claims that her African American community is suffering adverse health effects due to the chemical emissions of a neighboring plant owned by the Royal

Dutch Shell Oil Company. The town of Norco, Flag Wars (2003) is a stark look inside the conflicts Screening Room Louisiana, which derives its name from the New that surface when black working-class families are Orleans Refining Company, is divided between those faced with an influx of white gay homebuyers to their who consider Shell a fair neighbor that carefully Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood. Filmed over four monitors its chemical emissions and the all-black years, Flag Wars’ “as-it-is-happening” style captures Diamond Community. As a result of Shell’s industrial the raw emotions and blunt honesty of unguarded expansion, the size of the Diamond Community has moments as tensions mount between neighbors. been reduced to four streets that extend from the plant’s fence line. “The film is fascinating, point-of-view storytelling.” —Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times “Fenceline...looks at race, toxic pollution, a company town in that portion of the Mississippi Delta known Distributed by: as Cancer Alley, where Shell petrochemicals, pouring Daniel Bickley out of smokestacks, make lovely sunsets and Berkeley Media LLC asthmatic coughing fits.” Tel: 510/486-9900 —John Leonard, New York Magazine

Distributed by: LOGTV Ltd Tel: 800/564-7735 Email: [email protected] Web: www.logtv.com

41 Home Front (2001) tells the story of two diverse FRONTLINE: Is Wal-Mart Good For America? working-class San Francisco Bay Area communities (2004) explores the relationship between U.S. job balancing the promises of economic development losses and the American consumer’s insatiable desire with the perils of gentrification during the economic for bargains. For many retailers, China has become good times of the late 1990s. Winner of the 2001– the cheapest, most reliable production platform in 2002 Northern California Emmy Award for the world. For Wal-Mart, China is the source of up to Outstanding Community Program. $25 billion in annual imports, helping the company deliver everyday low prices to 100 million customers “While clearly sympathetic to the plight of the a week. Through interviews with retail executives, residents, Home Front maintains notable balance… product manufacturers, economists, and trade Even as it enumerates the challenges in the experts, correspondent Hedrick Smith examines the Mission and in Richmond, Home Front does not growing controversy over the Wal-Mart way of doing steer audiences in any particular direction.” business and asks whether a single retail giant has —Dave Ford, San Francisco Chronicle changed the American economy.

Distribution information: “...fascinating for the glimpses it offers into the Specific Pictures hypervigilant Wal-Mart corporate culture, into the 499 Alabama Street Studio 116 company’s logistical acumen, and into its canny San Francisco, California 94110 pricing strategies.“ Tel: 415/552-5856 —Maureen Ryan, Chicago Tribune Fax: 415/552-8979 E-mail: Jennifer@specificpictures.com Distributed by: PBS Video Tel: 800/344-3337 Imagining Home: Stories of Columbia Villa (2005) Web: www.shoppbs.org follows several families in this exploration of the soul and impact of historic, maligned, and cherished Portland, Oregon, public housing undergoing complete The Mississippi Triangle (1984) is an intimate transformation. The film examines community portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, building and demonstrates that fair and inclusive , and whites live in a complex urban revitalization practices are critical to the world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict. The history sustainability of American cities. of the Chinese community is framed against the harsh realities of civil rights, religion, politics, and “This film presents an opportunity for our community class in the South. Rare historical footage and to explore the meanings and results of its commitment interviews of Delta residents are combined to create to public housing.... This documentary is critical to this unprecedented document of interethnic relations our lasting understanding of this process and to in the American South. the appeal for public and congressional support for programs like HOPE VI.” “...ethnicity, acculturation, racism and interracial —Erik Sten, Portland City Commissioner associations; poverty, social and economic change, community development, and much more.” For more information: —Neil McMillen, Professor of History, University of Sue Arbuthnot Southern Mississippi Hare in the Gate Productions, LLC Tel: 503/287-3731 Distributed by: Web: www.hareinthegate.com Third World Newsreel 545 Eighth Avenue, 10th floor New York, NY 10018 Michelle Materre, Distribution Director Tel: 212/947-9277, ext. 308 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.twn.org

42 My Grandmother Worked (1995) examines the “One of the most honest and compelling videomaker’s experience as a black woman working documentaries I’ve ever seen on race and its impact as a nanny for a white family in New York City. on this nation.” Intercutting images of her former place of —Acel Moore, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist employment on the opulent Upper West side with photographs of her grandmother who also worked as Produced and distributed by: a nanny and who raised “two generations of white California Newsreel children,” director Latrice Dixon draws on her own Tel: 877/811-7495 and her grandmother’s experiences as she seeks to Web: www.newsreel.org understand the issues of race, gender, and class that delineate the historically loaded work she and her grandmother have shared. Store Wars: When Wal-mart Comes to Town (2001) looks at the populist spirit that engulfs a small Distributed by: Virginia town when retail giant Wal-Mart comes Third World Newsreel knocking. The ensuing debate, which pits neighbor 545 Eighth Avenue, 10th floor against neighbor, illustrates the struggle between New York, NY 10018 conflicting versions of the American dream. Michelle Materre, Distribution Director Tel: 212/947-9277, ext. 308 “This excellent program uses a David vs. Goliath E-mail: [email protected] scenario—small-town citizens versus corporate Web: www.twn.org behemoth—to offer an engaging rendering of a placid community enlivened by political action.” —Julie Salamon, The New York Times The New Americans (2004) follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants Distributed by: and refugees as they start new lives in America. Bullfrog Films The detailed portraits, woven together in the seven- Tel: 800/543-FROG hour-miniseries, presents a kaleidoscopic picture of E-mail: video@bullfrogfilms.com immigrant life and a personal view of the new America. Web: www.bullfrogfilms.com (ask for special rate for grassroots groups) “Always compelling and frequently heart-wrenching…” —Jabari Asim, Washington Post Taken for a Ride (1996) reveals the tragic and little-

For more information: known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, Screening Room www..org/independentlens/newamericans/ led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle newamericans.html. streetcar lines. Across the nation, tracks were torn To purchase the full series or the engagement up, sometimes overnight, and replaced with diesel modules, visit www.activevoice.net, or call Home buses on city streets. With investigative journalism, Vision (series only) at 888/572-8918 vintage archival footage and candid interviews, the film presents a revealing history of cities in the Produced By: Kartemquin Films twentieth century that is also a meditation on Executive Producers: Steve James and Gordon Quinn corporate power, city form citizen protest, and the Series Producer: Gita Saedi social and environmental implications of Nigerian Story Director: Steve James transportation. Nigerian Story Producer: Gita Saedi Mexican Story Director: Renee Tajima-Pena “An important piece of American history, and a Mexican Story Producers: Renee Tajima-Pena, powerful critique of the influence of corporate Evangeline Griego wealth on our daily lives. I hope it will be widely seen. We desperately need to stop the destruction of our cities and make them clean, beautiful places to live.” Episode 3: The House We Live In is the final —Howard Zinn, Author, A People’s History of the U.S. episode of Race—The Power of an Illusion (2003), a three-part series that makes visible the benefits Distributed by: that quietly and invisibly accrue to white people, New Day Films not necessarily because of merit or hard work, but Tel: 888/367-9154 because our laws and segregated neighborhoods Web: www.newday.com dramatically racialize opportunity. Our communities remain deeply segregated, the wealth gap continues to grow, and “color blind” policies only help perpetuate these inequities.

43 Advancing Regional Equity: The Second National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth Speaker Biographies

44 45 Nancy Aardema the only environmental justice periodical in the country. Dan Bartholomay Executive Director, Logan Square Neighborhood From 1991 through 1997, Anthony served as president Program Director, The McKnight Foundation Association of Earth Island Institute, an international environmental Dan Bartholomay is program director for the McKnight Nancy Aardema is the executive director of Logan organization to protect and conserve the global Foundation’s Region and Communities, and Southeast Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) in Chicago, biosphere. He has taught at the Asian programs. As the lead of an interdisciplinary Illinois. With over 25 years of experience as a community Graduate School of Architecture and Planning and the region and communities program team he sets the organizer, Aardema is widely recognized as an expert in University of California Colleges of Environmental strategic direction for the foundation’s grantmaking in the field. In 2002-2003, she was awarded the Chicago Design and Natural Resources. He has been an advisor neighborhoods and community development, Community Trust Community Service Fellowship. Under to the Stanford University Law School on issues of affordable housing, regional growth management, her direction since 1989, LSNA has garnered a reputation environmental justice. Anthony has a professional open space preservation, and transportation. Much of for innovative and groundbreaking community work. degree in architecture from Columbia University. his work focuses on connecting fields and leaders to LSNA has been recognized with awards from the In 1996, he was appointed Fellow at the Institute of address the complex challenges caused by the growth Chicago Community Trust, the Kaplan Foundation, the Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and development of the Twin Cities region. He also MacArthur Foundation, the Wieboldt Foundation, and . oversees grants that support health, education, and the Woods Fund of Chicago. In 2000, LSNA received the community development projects in Vietnam, Laos, and highly-competitive James V. Brown IV Award for David Arizmendi Cambodia. Prior to joining McKnight, he conceived, Excellence in Community Service. Aardema was Executive Director, Proyecto Azteca planned, and implemented community-based acknowledged in 1995 as “Best Community Organizer” David Arizmendi is executive director of Proyecto Azteca, development projects in Chicago and St. Paul. He spent in the Chicago Magazine “Best of Chicago” feature. a nationally-known community housing development six years as executive director of North End Area corporation that operates a unique self-help housing Revitalization in St. Paul, an organization with small Jose “Joe” Alvarez program in Hidalgo County, Texas on the Texas-Mexico business assistance, commercial real estate, and Director, AFL-CIO Northeast Region border. The organization received the Annie E. Casey housing development programs. In Chicago, he worked Joe Alvarez is director of the AFL-CIO Northeast Region, Foundation Families Count award for 2003. Through as a special projects coordinator for Shore Bank’s nonprofit which encompasses 12 states (from Maine to West Proyecto Azteca, extremely low-income colonia affiliate, The Neighborhood Institute, as economic Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC), Puerto Rico families gain the opportunity to build their own homes. development coordinator for Voice of the People in and the Virgin Islands. Alvarez is responsible for Arizmendi is also CEO and president of the Azteca Uptown, an affordable housing developer, and assistant implementing the AFL-CIO’s program of organizing, Community Loan Fund, a Community Development planner for the Metropolitan Council. In 1994, he was political activism, and membership mobilization. Financial Institution (CDFI) that serves the financial selected as a Leadership Fellow by the St. Paul Companies His leadership in the Northeast emphasizes building needs of colonia residents, providing interest-free for its Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods program. ties to disenfranchised communities, including new mortgage loans, micro loans for home-based business, He has a BA in Urban Affairs from Carleton College. immigrants, and addressing issues such as poverty, and family emergency loans to colonia residents. education, the changing workforce, and the need to He is also the founder of Iniciativa Frontera (IF), a Edward Becker increase labor’s political power. Most recently, he has community/economic development organization on Executive Director, Essex County Greenbelt been responsible for reorganizing and revitalizing the Texas/Mexico border. Arizmedi was selected as a Association the Long Island Federation of Labor after the national 2001 Fannie Mae James A. Johnson Fellow, and in the Edward Becker has over twenty-five years of experience AFL-CIO placed it in trusteeship in June of 2004. same year was also a member of the Rockefeller 2001 in land conservation, environmental protection, and In 1999, Alvarez led the AFL-CIO’s campaign to help Next Generation Leadership cohort. He has a BS in nonprofit management. Since 1987, Becker has been affiliates organize 130,000 public employees in Puerto Economics and an MS in Sociology from the University the executive director of the Essex County Greenbelt Rico. Alvarez came to the AFL-CIO in 1996 with a of Texas Pan-American. During the late 1970s and Association, a nonprofit land trust that has conserved 24-year history in the labor movement, bringing 1980s, Arizmendi designed and organized the 12,000 acres of land north of Boston. One of Greenbelt’s experience in organizing, political campaigning, Education and Legal Defense Fund, a legal service current initiatives is a potential collaborative project collective bargaining, and membership education and component of the National Farmworker Service Centers. with a nonprofit housing trust that will combine the mobilization. He started as a rank and file activist in development of affordable housing with land the textile and health care industries in North Carolina. Caron Atlas conservation. Becker is a graduate of the Yale School Before his appointment as regional director, Alvarez Independent Consultant of Forestry and Environmental Studies. served as the national political director for UNITE, where Caron Atlas is a Brooklyn, New York-based freelance Speakers he led his union in developing a political program consultant working to strengthen connections between Janet Dewart Bell focused on generating membership activism around art and culture, policymaking, and social change. Atlas Director of Communications, PolicyLink a working families political agenda. was the founding director of the American Festival Janet Dewart Bell develops strategic communications Project, a national coalition of activist artists, and worked for PolicyLink and policy campaigns with partners. Carl Anthony for several years with Appalshop, the Appalachian Bell was previously communications director for District Acting Director, Community and Resource media center. Recent consultancies include the Ford, Council 37, AFSCME, New York City’s largest public Development Unit, The Ford Foundation Creative Capital, Doris Duke, and Leeway foundations; employees union, representing 125,000 city workers. Carl Anthony is acting director of the Community and Animating Democracy Initiative; 651 Arts; and National As a member of two AFL-CIO delegations, she has done Resource Development Unit at the Ford Foundation. At Voice, a nonpartisan civic participation coalition. Atlas is communications training for trade unionists in Northern the same time, he continues to direct the foundation’s also an adjunct faculty member at New York University’s Africa. She previously served as director of communications Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative and Tisch School of the Arts. She writes frequently about for the National Urban League, where she redesigned the Regional Equity Demonstration Initiative. Prior to cultural policy, co-edited an anthology of critical the league’s premier publication, The State of Black joining the foundation he was a convenor and co-chair writings about art and civic dialogue, and is currently America. Her prior experience includes work as a television of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development co-writing a publication about the dynamic relationship producer for a CBS affiliate, program developer for (BAASD). BAASD is a multi-stakeholder collaborative between community development and local cultural National Public Radio, and publications editor. Bell is that seeks to build a consensus on how the region assets. Atlas has a master’s degree from the University the recipient of numerous communications awards, of 6.5 million, and over 100 jurisdictions, should grow. of Chicago and was a Warren Weaver fellow at the including an Emmy for outstanding individual He was the founder and executive director of Urban Rockefeller Foundation. achievement. Her radio programming received the Habitat, promoting multicultural urban environmental prestigious Peabody award. Bell worked as leadership for sustainable, socially just communities communications director for the National Committee on in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also co-published and Household Employment to help secure passage of a co-edited the Race, Poverty, and Environment journal, federal law guaranteeing minimum wage coverage to

44 45 household workers. In the Civil Rights Movement, she Sheri Dunn Berry guest in the media and her appearances include ABC’s conducted voter registration and mobilization in several Principal, Sheri Dunn Berry Consulting Nightline, NOW with Bill Moyers, and National Public southern states. She is an active volunteer and presently Sheri Dunn Berry is an independent consultant based in Radio. She has been published in the opinion pages of on the boards of the YWCA of the City of New York, Plays Los Angeles who works with community-building The New York Times, the , and the San for Living, Teaching Matters, and the Reizod Foundation. organizations throughout the United States. Drawing Francisco Chronicle. Blackwell was perviously senior vice from more than 16 years of experience in nonprofit and president for The Rockefeller Foundation, where she Judith Bell government organizations, Berry assists community- directed the foundation’s domestic and cultural divisions President, PolicyLink based and nonprofit groups with project management, and developed the Next Generation Leadership and Judith Bell oversees policy development, strategic strategic planning, board development, program Building Democracy programs, centered on issues of planning, program implementation, and oversight of development, fundraising, organizational membership inclusion, race, and policy. In 1987 she founded the policy campaigns for PolicyLink. Bell leads development development, and event planning. For over six years, she Urban Strategies Council in Oakland, California, and of projects focused on equitable regional development was the executive director of the National Community received national recognition for pioneering a policy to enhance the health, income, and assets of Building Network, a national organization whose community building approach to social change through residents of low-income communities. Her portfolio members work to improve economic conditions and in-depth understanding of local conditions, community- includes community strategies to reduce health solve community problems in low-income driven systems reform, and an insistence on disparities, equity in public investment, and the fair neighborhoods across the country. Prior to heading the accountability. Blackwell has also served as a partner distribution of affordable housing throughout regions. National Community Building Network, Berry spent with Public Advocates, a nationally known public She has supervised research and advocacy, spoken several years working at the Urban Strategies Council, a interest law firm representing the underrepresented. She widely, and edited and written extensively on these policy advocacy and community-building organization earned a bachelor’s degree from Howard University, and topics. Prior to joining PolicyLink, Bell was the director in Oakland, California. She also served as a senior policy a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. of the West Coast Regional Office of Consumers Union, associate at Children Now, a children’s policy and In addition, Blackwell was one of the founders of the where she focused on changing public policies to advocacy organization, and has held a number of other National Community Building Network. promote greater access to health care, health insurance, research and policy positions throughout California and and low-cost auto insurance. Bell developed and co- Washington, DC. She serves on several boards, including Fred Blackwell directed a 50-state project to preserve charitable assets as a founding member of the PolicyLink board of Deputy Director, Mayor’s Office of Community as nonprofit health care institutions convert into for- directors, and is active in a number of ministries in her Development, City and County of San Francisco profit businesses. She has been a contributor to the church. Berry completed her undergraduate studies in Fred Blackwell is currently the deputy director, Mayor’s opinion pages of California’s major newspapers, and has PA at the University of California, Berkeley and holds a Office of Community Development (MOCD) for the City authored numerous articles and studies appearing in a master’s degree in Public Administration from the and County of San Francisco. Prior to MOCD, Blackwell variety of academic and general circulation publications. University of Southern California. was the director for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Bell received a BA, with honors, in American Studies and Making Connections Initiative in Oakland. In this role, he a BA in Biology from the University of California, Santa Lyn Billman-Golemme was responsible for overall project management and the Cruz. She completed a master’s degree in Public Planning and Policy Consultant, Billman-Golemme brokering, provision, and management of technical Administration at the Kennedy School of Government at Associates, and Vice President for Legislation and assistance to community-based organizations working Harvard University, where she was also a Lucius M. Policy, American Planning Association, in partnership with the foundation. Before joining the Littauer Fellow. Massachusetts Chapter Annie E. Casey Foundation, he was manager of the 7th Lyn Billman-Golemme is a planning and policy Street McClymonds Corridor Initiative at The San Scott Bernstein consultant. She serves on the Action For Regional Equity Francisco Foundation. The initiative was a seven-year President, Center for Neighborhood Technology Committee in Massachusetts, representing the American effort funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Scott Bernstein is president of the Center for Planning Association, Massachusetts Chapter, where she Foundation to improve the physical, economic, and Neighborhood Technology, which develops resources to is vice president for Legislation and Policy. At the United human conditions in West Oakland. Prior to joining the promote healthy, sustainable communities. Bernstein Nations Commission for Sustainable Development she foundation, Blackwell worked at the Urban Strategies has been a visiting lecturer at UCLA, an environmental served as the first facilitator for the non-government Council, an Oakland-based community-building fellow of the Institute for Transportation Studies at organizations (NGO) Freshwater Caucus addressing intermediary, Children Now, a statewide child policy and University of California, Davis, a trustee of the Institute access to water equity issues. Billman-Golemme was a advocacy organization in California, and the Children’s for the Regional Community, and a board member of participant in the International Conference on Water and Defense Fund. He holds a graduate degree in City Planning the Brookings Institution Center for Urban and Sustainable Development in Paris and served on the from University of California, Berkley and an undergraduate Metropolitan Policy. He is a founding board member of NGO Advisory Committee for the World Water Forum degree in Urban Studies from Morehouse College. the Surface Transportation Policy Project and Smart in the Netherlands. She is also on the administrative Growth America. He also serves as a board member of committee for the U.S. based Citizens Network for Nick Bollman the State and Local Public Policy Program at the Hubert Sustainable Development. At the state level, Billman- Founder and President, California Center for Humphrey Institute and Imagine Chicago, and is a Golemme is involved with policy and legislative Regional Leadership Fellow of the Center for Small Business and the efforts regarding housing, transportation, education, Nick Bollman is founder and president of the California Environment. Bernstein is author of The Hidden Assets of and economic opportunities, as well as health and Center for Regional Leadership, a statewide nonprofit Communities and publisher of The Neighborhood Works environmental issues. She has a master’s degree in enterprise created to promote innovative regional and Information Service. Bernstein was appointed by Regional Planning and is also a social worker and state strategies for a successful economy, an improved President Clinton to the President’s Council for registered nurse. She has been the director of social quality of life, and economic opportunity for all. Now in Sustainable Development, where he served as the co- service and community-based agencies, and has served its fourth year, CCRL emerged from the Sustainable chair of its task forces on State, Local, and Regional on a municipal planning board. Communities program at The James Irvine Foundation, Initiatives, and its Metropolitan Strategies Working where Bollman had been senior program director. As Group. He remains involved in an advisory capacity to Angela Glover Blackwell president of CCRL, Bollman has served as strategic the federal government on a variety of issues, including Founder and Chief Executive Officer, PolicyLink adviser to the California Workforce Investment Board environmental protection, sustainable communities, Angela Glover Blackwell is founder and chief executive and the Governor’s Commission on Building and human capital. A native Chicagoan, Bernstein officer of PolicyLink, a national nonprofit research, (Infrastructure) for the 21st Century; and chair of the studied engineering and political science at communications, capacity-building, and advocacy Assembly Speaker’s Commission on Regionalism. He Northwestern University and served on the staff of its organization. Blackwell is a co-author of Searching for speaks extensively across California and the country on Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research. the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on “3E” sustainability (Economy, Environment, and Equity) Race in America (W.W. Norton, 2002). She is a frequent and on regional governance. During his tenure at the

46 47 Irvine and Hewlett foundations, Bollman was active in families and maintaining eight units of permanent and strategic capacity building to unite these many California and national grantmaker organizations housing. During his tenure, he oversaw the renovation organizations in building an integrated and strategic and collaboratives, including Funders Concerned About and move of the shelter to its own facility in November approach to achieving regional equity. She works to AIDS, Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable 1993. He has served as a community organizer and insure that the alliance’s work resonates with and Communities, Grantmaker Forum on Community and director of a Community School for the City of Cambridge reflects the values of many people, particularly low- National Service, Neighborhood Funders Group, from 1981 to 1986. Bronder-Giroux holds graduate income people and people of color. At the Central Northern California Grantmakers Task Force on degrees from the John F. Kennedy School of Government Community Housing Trust, an urban non-profit Homelessness, and Southern California Association for at Harvard University and Weston School of Theology. developer of affordable housing, she organized low- Philanthropy. Before coming to California in 1987, income tenants cross-culturally to identify their shared Bollman was director of the Task Force on the New York Hooper L. Brooks problems and achieve their desired solutions. Her work City Fiscal Crisis, director of the New York Council on Program Director for the Environment, Surdna involved helping tenants be heard in the public policy Human Services, and deputy director of the Community Foundation arena and achieve a more equitable distribution of Council of Greater New York. He holds an AB in Hooper L. Brooks is the program director for the millions of dollars of city resources targeted towards Government from Harvard College and an MA in Environment at the Surdna Foundation in New York City, “neighborhood revitalization.” Brown went on to direct Education from New York University. a family foundation with assets of over $700 million and the Harrison Neighborhood Association (HNA) for many an 80-year history. Over the past 30 years, Brooks has years. HNA is the citizen participation organization for a David Brancaccio worked with a spectrum of environmental, land racially diverse, lower-income neighborhood in North Host, NOW planning, and open space preservation organizations, Minneapolis. While at HNA, she worked with a board of David Brancaccio is host of NOW, a PBS series. He has projects, and initiatives. Since 1991, he has been neighborhood residents to create and sustain broad delivered hard-hitting reports on government secrecy, directing the foundation’s Environment program, which community leadership on a wide variety of issues the future of America’s public schools, the plight of currently makes approximately $7 million in grants including: creating and restoring affordable housing, America’s workers, the influence of talk radio on public annually to organizations working on transportation, revitalizing a commercial corridor, creating a community policy, the conservative movement’s political convention energy, biological diversity, and urban/suburban land center, cleaning polluted lands and planning for strategy, and the future of the environment from use issues throughout the United States. Since last year, sustainable mixed-use development, cleaning and mercury in our lakes to natural gas drilling in the Rockies. Brooks has been mentoring graduate students at Yale protecting a creek and watershed, and wringing His interviews with leading figures like philanthropist University’s School of Forestry and Environmental community benefits from local redevelopment. , author Azar Nafisi, philosopher Bernard Studies as an assistant research scholar. Brooks received Henri-Levy, civil rights attorney Constance Rice, and a BA degree from Harvard College and a master’s degree Nicholas J. Brunick cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson have provided viewers in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate Director, Regional Affordable Housing Initiative, with unique perspectives. A broadcaster for 28 years, School of Design. Business and Professional People for the Brancaccio spent 13 years at Marketplace, which tripled Public Interest its audience and received a duPont-Columbia University Joe Brooks Nicholas J. Brunick is the director of the Regional Award (1998) and the George Foster Peabody Award Vice President for Civic Engagement, PolicyLink Affordable Housing Initiative (RAHI) at Business and (2001) during his tenure. Before becoming host, Joe Brooks, PolicyLink vice pesident for Civic Engagement, Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI). BPI is a Brancaccio served in London as the European editor of is a member of the senior management team. Brooks 35-year-old public interest law and policy center that the program, covering the continent’s economic and provides oversight and supervision for several of the uses litigation, legal and policy advocacy, and political integration. During that time, he also covered organization’s programs and projects, and leadership for community organizing to improve the equity and diplomatic stories from Europe for the radio service of the design and integration of capacity building and civic quality of life for all people in the Chicago region. The Christian Science Monitor. Brancaccio has contributed engagement, as a necessary component, in all of the Brunick’s work at BPI has involved a mixture of legal, to CNN, CNBC, and Wall Street Week with Fortune on organization’s programs. Other responsibilities include policy, and organizing strategies to improve the PBS. His print work has appeared in such periodicals developing and maintaining relationships with local, condition of public housing in Chicago, to create more as , Psychology Today, and regional, and national organizations that could partner affordable housing near jobs and opportunity Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. He is with PolicyLink to improve the capacity and civic throughout the Chicago region, and to raise the wages author of the book Squandering Aimlessly, (Simon & engagement capabilities of community builders. of low-wage workers in Chicago and throughout the Schuster, 2000 and Touchstone, 2001) an account Formerly program executive for Neighborhood and state of Illinois. His experience prior to BPI includes legal of his pilgrimage to talk with Americans about wealth Community Development at the San Francisco work on behalf of low-income individuals in Texas and Speakers and values. Foundation, Brooks has also served as national co-chair Mississippi, organizing and policy work with low-wage of the Neighborhood Funders Group, vice-chair of the workers in Chicago, and community organizing efforts Phillip Bronder-Giroux Association of Black Foundation Executives, chair of the around job training and affordable housing in Texas. Executive Director, Tri-Community Action Program, East Bay Funders, and co-chair of the Funders Working He graduated summa cum laude from North Central Inc. (Tri-CAP) Group for Bay Area Base Conversion and Re-use. His College with a BA in Political Science and Urban Affairs Phillip Bronder-Giroux has been executive director background also includes working as assistant to the and earned a joint JD/Master of Public Affairs with of Tri-CAP in Massachusetts since 1994. Under his City Manager, Office of Economic Development, Berkeley, honors from the University of Texas at Austin. directorship, Tri-CAP has added a significant number of California; director, City of Berkeley Rent Board; economic new programs, including housing services for people development consultant, City of East Palo Alto; Robert D. Bullard with AIDS, a summer lunch program for the City of president, Emergency Land Fund, Atlanta, ; and Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Everett, and the establishment of a Mobile Outreach editor, Review of Black Political Economy, New York City. Director, Environmental Justice Resource Center, Team to homeless individuals. Tri-CAP has championed Brooks holds a BS in Business and Economics from San Clark Atlanta University issues of affordable housing, accessible and affordable Jose State University and a master’s degree in City and Robert Bullard is the Ware Distinguished Professor of health care, and good paying jobs for local residents at Regional Planning from University of California, Berkeley. Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice the proposed TeleCom City industrial park. Bronder- Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. Professor Giroux is a founding member of the Cyber Café @ Maura Brown Bullard is the author of 12 books. His book, Dumping in Malden Square, an initiative to reduce the effects of the Director of Organizing, Alliance for Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (Westview digital divide for the low-income community. He is also Metropolitan Stability Press, 2000), is a standard text in the environmental a member of Action for Regional Equity’s leadership Maura Brown is the director of organizing for the justice field. His other books include In Search of the team. Prior to joining Tri-CAP, he served for seven years Alliance for Metropolitan Stability and has worked as a New South (University of Alabama Press, 1991), as the executive director of Sojourner House, Inc., community organizer in the Twin Cities for the past 12 Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the a nonprofit agency providing shelter to homeless years. The alliance emphasizes grassroots organizing Grassroots (South End Press, 1993), Residential

46 47 : The American Legacy (UCLA Center for Policy Working Group. She is the author of Stimulating and serves on the boards of AmSouth Bank African American Studies, 1994); Unequal Protection: Supermarket Development: A New Day for Philadelphia, Community Development Corporation, Foundation for Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (Sierra a contributor to The Price Is Wrong: Getting the Market the Mid South, North Carolina Minority Support Club Books, 1996), Just Transportation: Dismantling Right for Working Families in Philadelphia, published Center, Partners for the Common Good, and the Fannie Race and Class Barriers to Mobility (New Society by the Brookings Institution, and a co-author with Mae Corporation Southeast Regional Advisory Council. Publishers, 1997), Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Kami Pothukuchi, Hugh Joseph, and Andy Fisher of Planning in Atlanta (Island Press, 2000), Just What’s Cooking in Your Food System: A Guide to Willena Cannon Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World Community Food Assessment. She has a master’s degree Safe Housing Community Organizer, Greensboro (MIT Press, 2003), and Highway Robbery: Transportation in Urban Policy and Planning from Tufts University and Housing Coalition Racism and New Routes to Equity (South End Press, a BA with honors from Brown University. Willena Cannon is the safe housing organizer of the 2004). He is completing work on three new books: The Greensboro Housing Coalition in Greensboro, North Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Jamie Bussel Carolina. Cannon recruits, trains, and supervises the Politics of Pollution (Sierra Club Books, forthcoming Program Associate, The Robert Wood Johnson healthy homes outreach team for Greensboro 2005), The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century Foundation Housing Coalition. She has been doing community (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming 2005), and Jamie Bussel is a program associate at the Robert organizing in Greensboro for 45 years, helping people Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Wood Johnson Foundation. Her program development know that they can work together to make their own Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (MIT Press, skills focus on promoting healthy communities and lives better. Cannon is gaining a national reputation forthcoming 2005). lifestyle, specifically as they relate to impacting the among healthy home advocates for her work to childhood obesity epidemic. A hallmark of her work at eliminate substandard housing in Greensboro, doing Kim Burnett the foundation is connecting disparate community outreach and education about lead paint hazards and Program Officer, Community Revitalization, Surdna sectors and cross-disciplines in reassessing how to other health risks in housing. In addition, she has an Foundation design communities that facilitate healthy lifestyle amazing ability to establish rapport with people and Kim Burnett is a program officer for Community choices. She is an ardent supporter and spokesperson build their trust so that they are ready to stand up for Revitalization with the Surdna Foundation where she for the Active Living movement. Prior to her work at themselves. co-manages a national portfolio of $5.5 million. For the foundation, she held research positions at the the last several years, Burnett has played a leadership University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Sheryll Cashin role in building awareness of the unique challenges (UMDNJ) and the University of Pennsylvania. At Professor of Law, Georgetown University and opportunities for weak market cities. Along with UMDNJ she served as a health program analyst Sheryll Cashin, professor of Law at Georgetown Paul Brophy, she co-authored, “Developing a New working on the evaluation component of New Jersey’s University, teaches Constitutional Law, Local Government Framework for Community Development in Weak Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program. In addition, Law, and Property, and writes about race relations, Market Cities,” which has laid the groundwork for a she was responsible for directing the program government, and inequality in America. Her new more market-savvy approach to community planning efforts for the Southern New Jersey Perinatal book, The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class revitalization efforts in cities and regions that have Smoking Cessation Project. While at the University of are Undermining the American Dream (Public Affairs, been losing population for the last several decades. Pennsylvania she served as a research assistant 2004) received critical praise from The New York Times Prior to joining Surdna, Burnett was the founding working on several NIH funded projects examining Book Review and The Chicago Tribune, among other executive director for the Community Development physical activity and its impact on weight loss and publications. Cashin has published widely in academic Partnerships’ Network—a national peer-learning maintenance among overweight adults. Bussel journals and written commentaries for several network for funder collaboratives investing in received her BA in English Literature from the periodicals, including the Los Angeles Times, Washington community revitalization efforts. Previously, she University of Michigan and her master’s in Public Post, and Education Week. She has appeared on NPR’s worked as a program manager for REACH CDC, where Health in behavioral sciences/health education from All Things Considered, The Diane Rehm Show, The Tavis she received the Governor’s Commendation for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Smiley Show, The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, CNN, BET, Community Collaboration for the revitalization of a Jersey-School of Public Health. ABC News, and numerous local programs. Cashin low-income commercial district in Portland, Oregon. worked in the Clinton White House as an advisor on In the for-profit sector, Burnett has served as a systems William J. “Bill” Bynum urban and economic policy, particularly concerning analyst for Cisco Systems and as director of stores Chief Executive Officer, Enterprise Corporation of the community development in inner-city neighborhoods. for a national retail chain. Burnett earned a master’s Delta and Hope Community Credit Union She also served as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Portland Bill Bynum is chief executive officer of ECD/HOPE Justice Thurgood Marshall. She graduated summa cum State University, a bachelor’s degree in Politics from (Enterprise Corporation of the Delta and Hope laude from Vanderbilt University with a bachelor’s the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is a member Community Credit Union). One of the nation’s leading degree in Electrical Engineering. As a Marshall Scholar, of Phi Beta Kappa. community development financial institutions, ECD/ she received a master’s in English Law, with honors, HOPE leverages private, public, and philanthropic from Oxford University. Cashin also holds a JD, with Hannah Burton resources to tackle the development needs facing low- honors, from Harvard Law School, where she was a Senior Associate, The Food Trust wealth individuals, families, and communities in the member of the Harvard Law Review. Hannah Burton is a senior associate at The Food Trust, Delta, and other distressed parts of Arkansas, where she has been responsible for the management Louisiana, and Mississippi. Since 1994 ECD/HOPE has Cielo V. Castro and development of a major new initiative to attract generated over $180 million in financing for Deputy Director of Constituency Services, supermarket development to underserved areas of entrepreneurs, homebuyers, and community National Association of Elected Officials (NALEO) Pennsylvania. She staffs the Pennsylvania Fresh Food development projects, and has directly benefited more Educational Fund Financing Initiative, a $40 million public-private than 13,000 individuals. Prior to joining ECD/HOPE, Cielo Castro joined the National Association of Latino leveraged fund intended to support the development Bynum managed community development initiatives Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational of new grocery stores statewide. In addition, she at the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Fund staff in August 2003 as deputy director of manages a social marketing campaign, funded by the Center. Previously, he helped establish Self-Help, a Constituency Services. The NALEO Educational Fund is Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to promote healthy pioneer in the development banking industry. A the leading organization that empowers Latinos to food choices at corner stores by school children. Prior University of North Carolina graduate, he is a Henry participate fully in the America political process, from to working at The Food Trust, she coordinated the Crown Fellow and was named 2002 National citizenship to public service. Castro currently assists in Oregon Food Bank’s Kids Café Program and organized Supporter of Entrepreneurship by Ernst & Young and the development, implementation, and evaluation of community gardens in low-income communities in the Kauffman Foundation. Bynum chairs the NALEO’s Policy Institutes for Latino elected officials, Portland, Oregon, where she was the chair of the Food President’s Community Development Advisory Board, including the California Policy Institutes on Health, the

48 49 National Education Leadership Initiative, and the Policy David Chiu urban and economic development activities. She was Institutes on Sustainable Communities. Prior to joining Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Grassroots also the project director for the Targeted Neighborhood the NALEO Educational Fund, Cielo served as the Enterprise Initiative, a comprehensive demonstration program program assistant for Outreach at the National League David Chiu is founder and chief operating officer of aimed at improving low-income neighborhoods in of Cities’ (NLC) Institute for Youth, Education, and Grassroots Enterprise, a public affairs technology Philadelphia. Coleman has an MA in Government Families in Washington, DC, where she promoted the company. Grassroots Enterprise provides leading Administration from the Fels Center of Government at institute’s efforts to municipal officials, state municipal online technology and strategic services to assist the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Urban leagues, and other partners. She also served NLC as nonprofit, political, public policy, and business clients Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. staff assistant for Constituency and Member Groups, in achieving their communication, advocacy, political, coordinating conference planning and publication membership, fundraising, and media objectives. Chiu Kara J. Coleman development for the six constituency groups, previously worked as a staff attorney at the Lawyers’ Acting Executive Director, Alliance for the particularly the Hispanic Elected Local Officials (HELO) Committee for Civil Rights, as a criminal prosecutor Revitalization of Camden City and Women in Municipal Government (WIMG). Castro with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, and as Kara Coleman is the acting executive director of the received her BS in Business Administration from law clerk to Judge Browning of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Alliance for the Revitalization of Camden City (ARCC), in May 2001. She is a member of Court of Appeals. He also served as Democratic a citizen-led organization that strives to ensure both Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi counsel to the United States Senate Constitution the success and sustainability of Camden revitalization Sorority, Inc. Subcommittee, and as Senator Paul Simon’s aide to initiatives. Guided by a Board of Trustees and the Senate Budget Committee. Chiu has served as comprised of local and regional stakeholders, ARCC Arnold Chandler board president of the Youth Leadership Institute, chair helps to shape and strengthen community agendas Research Associate, PolicyLink of California’s 13th Assembly District Democratic by promoting broad-based civic involvement, Arnold Chandler analyzes and researches the use of Committee, president-elect of the Asian American Bar collaborative problem solving, constructive advocacy, information technology in community building for the Association of the Greater Bay Area, and on the boards and leadership development. Prior to joining the Community Building in the Digital Age Initiative at of affordable housing and domestic violence alliance, Coleman served as the program director for PolicyLink. Chandler holds an MS in Information and nonprofits. Last year, the National Asian Pacific the Civic League of Greater New Brunswick (New Telecom Systems Design, and has researched and American Bar Association named him as one of the Jersey) and as an associate with the Center for the written on topics related to information technology country’s Best Lawyers Under 40. Chiu received his Study of Social Policy (CSSP) in Washington, DC. and organizations, the digital divide and public policy, undergraduate, master’s in public policy, and law During her tenure with CSSP, she worked in support and the diffusion of IT innovations within the nonprofit degrees from Harvard University. of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s national sector. His most recent projects focus on the study and Neighborhood Transformation/Family Development analysis of electronic advocacy in an effort to help Stuart Cohen initiative as a member of its Technical Assistance expand the understanding of how information Co-founder and Executive Director, Transportation Resource Center and also as part of the team that technology can be used strategically to support policy and Land Use Coalition initiated the Doris Duke Foundation’s Strengthening advocacy campaigns. Stuart Cohen is co-founder and executive director of Families Through Early Care and Education program. the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC), Coleman holds a master’s degree in social service Donald “Don” D. T. Chen a partnership of over 90 environmental, social justice, administration from the University of Chicago and a Founder and Executive Director, labor and community groups. Founded in 1997, TALC bachelor’s degree in political science from Hampton Smart Growth America has become a primary player in San Francisco Bay Area University. Don Chen is the founder and executive director of transportation and growth issues by combining high Smart Growth America (SGA) and leads its coalition quality policy analysis, with strong grassroots Raymond Colmenar building, policy development, communications, and organizing and strategic media efforts. TALC’s campaigns Associate Director, PolicyLink research efforts. SGA is a national advocacy coalition have directly raised over $5 billion dollars for Raymond Colmenar, associate director, leads PolicyLink promoting a better way to grow: one that preserves sustainable and socially-just transportation. Cohen has projects in community reinvestment and equitable open space and farmland, reinvests in existing helped lead a number of these efforts, including the regional development. Prior to joining PolicyLink, he communities, keeps housing affordable, and offers recent success in developing a one dollar bridge toll was a program officer at The Rockefeller Foundation more transportation choices. Chen has published increase to fund public transit, which was approved by focused on employment and community building. numerous writings on land use, transportation, social California voters in 2004. He also spearheaded the Colmenar was also director of the South of Market Speakers equity, and environmental policy, including “The campaign to initiate a regional smart growth process. Problem Solving Council in San Francisco, and served Science of Smart Growth,” which appeared in the Cohen has been the primary author of eight Coalition as a policy analyst for the City and County of San December 2000 issue of Scientific American, and co- reports, including the 120-page World Class Transit for Francisco, examining income security and human authored Once There Were Greenfields, an authoritative the Bay Area. TALC’s work in uniting environmental service programs. review of the economic, environmental, and social and social justice organizations has been nationally costs of sprawl. He has lectured widely in North recognized, and is covered in Dr. Robert Bullard’s Kinshasha Holman Conwill America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, has testified Highway Robbery. Previously, Cohen worked with ICLEI Arts, Museum, and Management Consultant before the United States Congress on smart growth to promote alternative transportation polices, and the Kinshasha Holman Conwill is an arts, museum, and issues, and is frequently interviewed by the media, New York Public Interest Research Group as a toxics management consultant, a consultant to LINC including recent appearances on CNN, National Public campaign coordinator and statewide canvass director. (Leveraging Investments in ), and former Radio, and The New York Times. Chen serves on the He received a master’s in Public Policy from the director of The Studio Museum in Harlem. Conwill is a boards of directors for West Harlem Environmental University of California, Berkeley. member of the boards of the Municipal Art Society Action, the Institute for Location Efficiency, Grist (New York), New Visions for Public Schools, the Urban Magazine, and the Growth Management Leadership Beverly Coleman Assembly, and Provisions Library. Conwill was Alliance. He was a founding co-chair of the Program Director, Philadelphia Neighborhood managing editor for Culture Counts, the report of A Environmental Leadership Program and now serves on Development Collaborative Cultural Blueprint for New York City (New York its Advisory Board. Prior to SGA, he was a researcher Beverly Coleman is program director of the Foundation for the Arts), and for Creative Downtown: for the Surface Transportation Policy Project, World Philadelphia Neighborhood Development The Role of Culture in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan Resources Institute, and the Rocky Mountain Institute. Collaborative (PNDC). Coleman has more than 15 years (New York City Arts Coalition) and senior policy advisor He has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from of experience in community development activities, for the Museums & Community initiative of the and a master’s degree from the Yale most recently as program officer at The Pew Charitable American Association of Museums. She began her School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Trusts, where she managed a grant portfolio related to career as a visual and performance artist. Conwill

48 49 writes and speaks on contemporary art and cultural Dayna L. Cunningham materials and policy analysis, and provided consultation policy nationally and internationally, and has served Project Manager, Lord-Ross Philanthropic Advisors services to community groups. She is a graduate of the on advisory panels for the Ford Foundation, the Pew Dayna L. Cunningham is project manger with Lord- University of Detroit-Mercy (BA, Political Science and Charitable Trusts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ross Philanthropic Advisors, a project management Business Administration), Loyola College of Maryland Wallace Foundation, the National Endowments for the and philanthropic consulting firm based in New York (MA, Adult Education), and Loyola University of New Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the City. She has worked for the Rockefeller Foundation as Orleans (MA, Theology). The Charles Stewart Mott California Arts Council. She has presented at the associate director in the Working Communities Foundation was founded in 1926 and from its founding Council on Foundations, Grantmakers in the Arts, division. At the Rockefeller Foundation, she funded has focused on the well-being of communities, Independent Sector, Americans for the Arts, and the initiatives that examined the relationship between including the individual, the family, the neighborhood, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. democracy and race, changing racial dynamics and and the systems of government. new conceptions of race in the U.S., and innovation in Charlene M. Crowell the area of civil rights legal work. Before coming to the Hattie B. Dorsey Lansing and Detroit Policy Specialist, Michigan Rockefeller Foundation, Cunningham worked as a Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Land Use Institute voting rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership As the Michigan Land Use Institute’s Lansing and and Educational Fund, litigating cases in Arkansas, As founder, president, and Chief Executive Officer of Detroit policy specialist, Charlene Crowell brings a Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and elsewhere in the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership unique breadth of journalism, communications, and the South, and briefly as an officer for the New York (ANDP), Hattie B. Dorsey is a leading advocate for public policy experience gained in a career that spans City Program at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. housing issues. One of her most important three decades, four states, and major markets in the Cunningham is a 2004 graduate of the Sloan Fellows accomplishments has been the shifting of perceptions Midwest, South, and West. With a background in MBA program of the MIT Sloan School of Management. about the importance of revitalized neighborhoods broadcasting, publishing, government, and public She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and and the critical need for an affordable, mixed-income affairs, she has been honored by the Texas Publishers Radcliff Colleges and a JD from New York University housing approach that includes all segments of the Association and the National Newspaper Publishers’ School of Law. population. Dorsey has demonstrated how affordable Association. The Charlene M. Crowell Collection, housing, once thought a problem for the poorest of housed in the Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana Mariano Diaz the poor, affects more of the economic spectrum. She University Northwest, preserves for scholars, Senior Vice President, Community Partnerships, continues to make clear the connection between researchers, and historians, many of the state’s major The San Diego Foundation housing and quality of life issues such as air quality, governmental and political developments from the Mariano Diaz oversees operations of the Community transportation, and the availability of clean water. early 1980s through the millennium. In 1995, she was Partnerships Department, including the Community Dorsey’s organization, now in its fourteenth year, is invited to join the United States-China Joint Impact Working Groups in San Diego. Diaz has leveraging housing development activities, a fully- Conference on Women’s Issues held in Beijing. In 2003, extensive experience with nonprofit organizations, accredited Community Development Financial she joined the Michigan Land Use Institute, where she including serving as director of The California Institution loan fund, and policy advocacy to transform writes, organizes, and advocates smart growth, metro Endowment’s Community Health Investment Program Atlanta’s neighborhoods. In addition to her work at equity, and transportation choices in Lansing. and executive director of California HealthCare ANDP and active civic involvement, Dorsey participates Partnerships for Blue Cross of California. His most in local and national dialogues on topics of community Sheila Crowley recent position was global director of Nike Foundation, development, race relations, economic development, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Low Global Community Affairs in Beaverton, Oregon, regional equity, and public policy. She serves on Income Housing Coalition where he oversaw execution of United States and committees or boards for the Federal Reserve, Central Sheila Crowley is the president and Chief Executive global employee community involvement programs, Atlanta Progress, Atlanta Streetcar, Fannie Mae, Officer of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, grantmaking, and corporate contributions and product Enterprise Foundation, Washington Mutual, heading a membership organization dedicated solely donations of $29 million annually. He received his International Women’s Forum, and Spelman College. to ending the affordable housing crisis in America. BA in Combined Social Sciences at the University of She serves as board chair of the Community NLIHC’s annual flagship publication, Out of Reach, California, Santa Barbara and Master of Education Development Partnership Network. analyzes the mismatch between incomes and rents in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at in every jurisdiction in the United States, and produces Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. A Los Angeles Cynthia Mildred Duncan the “housing wage,” a frequently cited measure of native, his community involvement includes serving Director, The Carsey Institute, University of housing unaffordability. NLIHC leads the National on boards of the California Association of Non-Profits, New Hampshire Housing Trust Fund Campaign, which has been endorsed California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, East Los Cynthia Mildred Duncan is founding director of the by over 5,400 organizations across the country. She is Angeles YMCA, New Economics for Women, Southern Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. a member of the board of directors of The National California Association of Philanthropy, and the The institute supports interdisciplinary policy research Housing Trust, The Poverty and Race Research Action Association of Mexican American Educators. in the social and health sciences, analyzes issues Council, the Technical Assistance Collaborative, and the affecting children, youth, and families in small cities Alliance for Healthy Homes. She holds a PhD from the Christine A. W. Doby and rural communities, works to integrate School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth Program Officer, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation environmental stewardship and community economic University, where she also serves as an adjunct faculty Cris Doby is a program officer with the Charles Stewart development, and provides analysis on low-income member, teaching social policy, social justice, legislative Mott Foundation in the Pathways Out of Poverty and moderate-income families in northern New advocacy, and community organizing. She was a program, with a specialty in community organizing. England. From 2000-2004 Duncan served as the Ford 1996-1997 Social Work Congressional Fellow, where Her experience in this field includes having worked as Foundation’s director of Community and Resource she served on the Democratic staff of the Housing a community organizer and subsequent years as local Development, a global program that supports Subcommittee of the United States Senate Banking director of the Campaign for Human Development, sustainable development focused on racial justice, Committee. Crowley is a founding member of Virginians a major funder of community organizing efforts. Doby social equity, and inclusive civic engagement. From Against Domestic Violence, the Greater Richmond joined the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation after 1989-2000 she was a professor of Sociology at the Coalition for the Homeless, and the Richmond Better serving as a Community Builder Fellow with the U.S. University of New Hampshire, where she taught Housing Coalition. Department of Housing and Urban Development. classes on poverty and inequality, political sociology, Previously, she served as social action director for several social change, and qualitative and applied Catholic dioceses. In these positions, she developed methodology. Duncan is the author of Worlds Apart: various partnerships between the church and other Why Poverty Persists in Rural America (Yale University sectors of the community, developed educational Press, 1999), which won the American Sociological

50 51 Association’s Robert E. Park Award, Rural Poverty in Jose Mercury News, America at Work, NBC News, and Espinosa has a JD, an MPH in Public Health America, an edited collection on rural poverty, and ABC News. She was responsible for the development Administration (UCLA), and a BS in Nursing (UNM). numerous articles on poverty and development. Duncan of Working Partnerships Staffing Services, a worker- received her BA in English from Stanford University, operated temporary staffing agency that provided Francisco Estrada and her MA and PhD from the University of Kentucky. living wages, healthcare benefits, and workplace Director of Public Policy, Sacramento, Mexican She serves on several policy and development- advocacy on behalf of more than 3,500 of the area’s American Legal Defense and Educational Fund related boards. contingent workers. Ellis-Lamkins joined the staff of Francisco Estrada is the director of Public Policy for the Working Partnerships USA in 1998 as the group’s Sacramento office of the Mexican American Legal Malaika Edwards education coordinator, and since her appointment as Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), working on Co-founder, The People’s Grocery executive officer in 2003, has led the fight to create the educational and land use issues. Before his employment Malaika Edwards is a co-founder of the People’s first community benefits policy in the country, helped at MALDEF, Estrada was a longtime staff member to Grocery, a mobile natural foods market, garden, and create a statewide labor/community alliance to build Congressman Bob Filner. At the local and federal youth business training program in West Oakland, CA. capacity in key strategic regions in California, and government level, Estrada has worked on a number of She holds a BA in Environmental Studies and dance replicated the children’s health initiative, a program issues including water, wastewater, transportation from Oberlin College and has traveled the world created by Working Partnerships and community infrastructure projects, immigration, energy, and studying grassroots activism, globalization, and partners that provides health care coverage for over environmental protection. ecology. She has been an organizer and facilitator for 60,000 children. She currently participates in the over 10 years working for environmental health, American Leadership Forum and serves on the boards Representative Dwight Evans justice, and community self-reliance, and inspiring of the Progressive Technology Project, Women’s Fund Chair, Democratic Appropriations Committee, young people to take a stand for their hearts’ passions. of Silicon Valley, and the Central Labor Council Pennsylvania House of Representatives Edwards is a former executive director of Youth for Advisory Committee. Democratic Appropriations Chairman Dwight Evans Environmental Sanity and served on the boards of The was born and raised in Philadelphia and educated in Institute for Deep Ecology and The Sierra Friends Stephen English its public school system. He was first elected to the Center. Her joy is healing community through love, Co-director, Advancement Project Pennsylvania House of Representatives in November service, and creative expression. Stephen English is co-director of the Advancement 1980. Since his first day in the state Capitol, Evans has Project and was a partner in the Los Angeles office provided vibrant visionary leadership that has marked Juliet Ellis of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius for twelve years, helping his professional career and community-related Executive Director, Urban Habitat to manage a 20-lawyer litigation department. A endeavors. Evans is involved in many initiatives to make Juliet Ellis is executive director of Urban Habitat, a committed advocate for legal services for the poor, Philadelphia a better place to live, work, and visit. regional environmental justice organization. Urban he has served as board president of two major service These include working with law enforcement and other Habitat works in partnership with low-income providers—Public Counsel and the Inner City Law public officials to reduce gun violence in the city, communities and communities of color to advance Center—and as president of the Los Angeles County promoting education reforms, overriding Pennsylvania social, economic, and environmental justice in the San Bar Foundation. He received the California State Bar Public Utility Commission regulations to help Philadelphia Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Through advocacy and President’s Pro Award in 1994 and, with co- Gas Works out of its fiscal problems, promoting the the promotion of equitable policies, leadership director Munger, the ACLU of Southern California’s location of supermarkets within the city, and development, research, and participation in strategic Equal Justice Advocate award in 2002. English is chair establishing a task force on helping working families coalitions, Urban Habitat helps to build a democratic of the Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar become more financially literate and reducing society in which all communities have the power Association and serves as an officer on the board of regulatory burdens on them. Evans currently serves on to influence and benefit from the decisions impacting the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. He is an the board of directors of the Public School Employees’ their neighborhoods. Ellis has a Master of Science honors graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School. Retirement System, Black Alliance for Educational in Business Administration with an emphasis in Options, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia environmental and urban studies from San Francisco Judith Espinosa Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Children’s State University. Prior to directing UH, she was the Director, Alliance for Transportation Research Scholarship Fund, Concerned Black Men, Presbyterian associate program officer for Neighborhood and Institute, University of New Mexico Foundation of Philadelphia, and the National Community Development at The San Francisco Judith Espinosa is director of the Alliance for Governing Assessment Board (through appointment Foundation. Juliet has served on numerous regional Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) at the University by former U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige). Speakers and local boards and committees, including the of New Mexico (UNM). ATRI is a research institute Oakland Homeless and Low-Income Taskforce, the San guided by the basic tenet that transportation research Theresa Fay-Bustillos Francisco Asset Building Initiative, the Alameda should promote a national and statewide investment Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation, and Continuum of Care Council, and the Alameda County in sustainable intermodal transportation systems that Vice President, Worldwide Community Affairs, Public Health Disparities Taskforce. She currently serves move people and goods. Espinosa acts as principal Levi Strauss & Company on the Board and Steering Committee of the investigator of transportation research studies and Theresa Fay-Bustillos is the executive director of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, the Bay Area projects, and public policy research and transportation Levi Strauss Foundation and vice president of Alliance for Sustainable Communities, the Community technology development. She was appointed in 2003 Worldwide Community Affairs for Levi Strauss & Capital Investment Initiative, Girls After School by Governor Richardson to the Interstate Stream Company. She is responsible for leading their corporate Academy, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, the Commission and is chair of the Board of Directors of social responsibility, philanthropic, and employee California Partnership for Working Families, and the the Surface Transportation Policy Project. Espinosa has community involvement activities globally. The California Alliance for Transportation Choices. held two New Mexico Cabinet positions: as New foundation provides almost $10 million in grants in Mexico Secretary of Environment (1991) and Secretary 35 countries to alleviate poverty for women and youth Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins of Transportation (1983). President Clinton appointed through two mutually reinforcing strategies: Executive Director, Working Partnerships USA her to the President’s Council on Sustainable preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS and increasing Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is the executive officer of the Development and as trustee of the Morris K. Udall economic and education opportunities. In addition, 110,000-member South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council Foundation for Scholarship & Excellence in National the company and foundation have established the and executive director of the group’s nationally Environmental Policy. Espinosa was awarded a Workers’ Rights program aimed at educating apparel recognized think-tank, Working Partnerships USA. German Marshall Fund Environmental Fellowship and workers and enforcing workplace rights. Prior to her Ellis-Lamkins was named by San Jose Magazine as one has previously served as a board member of the work with Levi Strauss, Fay-Bustillos was a trial of the 100 most powerful people in Silicon Valley and Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP), The Energy attorney specializing in labor and employment law, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal online, San Foundation, and the National Wildlife Federation. voting rights, education, and immigrants’ rights issues.

50 51 She litigated class action or complex cases at the U.S. Mary Filardo Rebecca Flournoy Department of Labor, the Mexican American Legal Founder and Executive Director, Senior Associate, PolicyLink Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the U.S. 21st Century School Fund Rebecca Flournoy is a senior associate at PolicyLink, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and at Mary Filardo is the founder and executive director of where she participates in initiatives focused on reducing the Law Offices of Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak, the 21st Century School Fund, a nonprofit organization health disparities through a focus on communities. and Baller. She briefly became an administrative law dedicated to building the public will and capacity to She conducts research, analyzes research findings and judge and taught a civil rights litigation class at the modernize school buildings so they support quality legislation, writes reports, conducts workshops and University of Southern California Law School before education and community revitalization in urban trainings, collaborates on California state policy efforts changing careers and moving to the field of corporate neighborhoods. She worked for 25 years in the private with a range of stakeholder organizations and social responsibility and philanthropy. Fay-Bustillos sector in building and construction management. She legislative offices, and provides strategic advice on holds degrees from the University of California, also studied philosophy and mathematics at St. John’s policy to local and regional coalitions across California. Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles College in Annapolis, was selected as a Truman Scholar Previously, she worked at the Kaiser Family Foundation School of Law. from the District of Columbia, and completed a to amplify the public’s voice on important health and master’s degree in Public Policy and Public Finance social policy issues through public opinion research, Liza Featherstone from the University of Maryland. She has worked as a often in collaboration with the Harvard School of Author and Journalist community activist to improve public education and to Public Health, , National Public Liza Featherstone is a contributing editor at The Nation secure safe, modern, educationally appropriate school Radio, and other partners. She has published articles magazine, where she often writes about economic facilities for the children of the District of Columbia. in health and policy journals such as Health Affairs justice. A freelance journalist, her work has appeared She founded the 21st Century School Fund in 1994 to and Brookings Review, and has authored numerous in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Rolling provide the District of Columbia and other urban reports and papers while working at public health Stone, Columbia Journalism Review, Newsday, Ms., communities leadership, partnerships, innovative organizations in California and Washington, DC. Flournoy and many other publications. Featherstone is a solutions, research, and analysis of school facility earned her master’s degree in Public Health at the frequent guest lecturer at universities and colleges and issues. She originated and then successfully managed University of Michigan. a visiting scholar at New York University’s School of the Oyster public/private partnership that built the Journalism. She is co-author of Students Against first new public elementary school in the District in 20 Richard M. Foster Sweatshops, which was published by Verso in June years. She has written extensively on school facility Vice President for Programs, 2002. In November 2004, Basic Books published her issues in the District of Columbia, developed software W. K. Kellogg Foundation second book, Selling Women Short: The Landmark to support long-range facilities master planning, and Dr. Rick Foster is vice president for programs at the Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart, which has is leading Building Educational Success Together W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan. attracted praise from publications as diverse as Bitch (BEST) a research, constituency building, and Specific programming initiatives for which he is magazine and the New York Review of Books. communications collaborative to improve urban responsible include: Food and Society, Mid South school facilities supported by the Ford Foundation. Delta Initiative, People and Land, Networks for Rural Deeohn Ferris Public Policy, the Kellogg National Leadership President, Global Environmental Resources Inc. Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald Program, and the new Kellogg Leadership for Deeohn Ferris is president of Global Environmental Director, Children’s Defense Fund, Community Change Program. He previously worked in Resources Inc., a consulting firm that provides Southern Regional Office international development activities in Africa and community development services that integrate Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald is the director of the Children’s Central America, and was instrumental in establishing environment, natural resources, and public health Defense Fund and the regional director for the the School of Agriculture for the Humid Tropics objectives. Ferris is an attorney whose interdisciplinary Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic (E.A.R.T.H.) in Costa Rica. Foster received his bachelor’s, career spans government, industry, and public interest. and Social Justice (SRBWI). SRBWI operates in 77 master’s, and doctoral degrees in agricultural She is a leading environmental and social justice counties across the Black Belts of Alabama and education from Iowa State University in Ames, and has advocate. Ferris’ legal career began at the United States Southwest Georgia and the Mississippi Delta. It is the taught at Iowa State University, the University of Idaho, Environmental Protection Agency. During her EPA first human rights initiative in the United States aimed and the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He serves tenure, she directed nationally significant enforcement at eradicating historical race, class, cultural, religious, on several national boards and councils, including that litigation and groundbreaking cases. Next, she was and gender barriers experienced by southern rural of the World Agricultural Forum, the Plant Science counsel and Congressional liaison for the American black women. Prior to this position Fitzgerald was Institute at Iowa State University, the National Food Insurance Association. As director of the national appointed White House liaison and executive assistant Security Advisory Council, the Rural Funders Working Environmental Quality office for the National Wildlife to then Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy by President Group, and the National Rural Funders Collaborative. Federation, she was the first African American in Clinton in January 1993. Shortly thereafter, she was The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930, senior level environmental management. At the named the department’s director of Intergovernmental and its programming activities center around the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, she launched the Affairs where she worked with local, state, and tribal common vision of a world in which each person has a Environmental Justice Project, the first pioneered by a governments; coordinated the administration’s long- sense of worth; accepts responsibility for self, family, major civil rights group. Then, she established the term recovery of Midwestern states affected by the community, and societal well-being; and has the Washington Office on Environmental Justice introducing Great Flood of 1993; and was a member of USDA’s capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing and leading the national campaign that resulted in the executive review panel selecting rural Empowerment families, responsive institutions, and healthy 1994 Presidential Executive Order on Environmental Zones and Enterprise Communities. Fitzgerald received communities. Justice, the EPA National Environmental Justice a BA in Sociology from Tougaloo College in Jackson, Advisory Council, and a federal Inter-Agency Workgroup. Mississippi. She serves as board member for the Sue Fothergill Ferris, a frequent speaker and Congressional witness, Mississippi Head Start Association, helped form the Education Advocate, American Civil Liberties has lectured in China, , South Africa, Mexico, and Mississippi Commission on Women, and is a member Union of Maryland throughout North America. Her work with communities of the Global Women’s Action Network for Children, Sue Fothergill is an education advocate with the ACLU extends from these places to Fiji, Indonesia, Brazil, which met in Bellagio, Italy, in 2004. She was invited of Maryland. The ACLU of Maryland represents parents India, and Nepal. to attend the World Social Forum 2005 in Porto Alegre, of at-risk youth in Baltimore City in a lawsuit against Brasil, as one of 10 delegates chosen nationwide by the state to obtain adequate funding from the state for the Marguerite Casey Foundation. Baltimore City schools. Fothergill conducts organizing campaigns to support public education, lobbies in Annapolis, and monitors education polices at the state and district level. Additionally, she conducts research

52 53 and analysis to inform the ACLU’s efforts to increase Project analyzes access to opportunities throughout the trafficking cases. He has received a number of awards, school facilities funding for Maryland’s neediest region, using maps to visualize disparities and redirect including the Robert García Environmental Justice jurisdictions. She also informs parents and future planning and investment. Jill has a MS in Award from the Planning and Conservation League stakeholders on school system policies, helps to Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon named in his honor for improving the environment in educate parents about the impact of the policies, and and a BA in Political Science from the University of California, the President’s Award from the California promotes family and community involvement in Notre Dame. She has overseen CLF programs since Attorneys for Criminal Justice, and the Rigoberta decision-making at the school, district, and state 1999, and has over 15 years of experience working as Menchú Tum Award. levels. Previously the program manager for Save Our staff, board member, and volunteer with environmental Streams, Fothergill is completing an associate’s degree and social justice non-profits. James O. Gibson at the Baltimore County Community College and plans Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Policy to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy at Miguel García James O. Gibson is a senior fellow at the Center for the University of Baltimore. Acting Deputy Director, Community and Resource Study of Social Policy in Washington, DC. Gibson also Development Unit, The Ford Foundation chairs the board of directors of PolicyLink. He has been Radhika K. Fox Miguel Garcia is the acting deputy director in the a senior associate of the Urban Institute since January Senior Associate, PolicyLink Community and Resource Development Unit at the 1993, and he was founding president of DC Agenda, a Radhika K. Fox coordinates initiatives focused on Ford Foundation in New York City. The initial focus of nonprofit community assistance corporation in the promoting equitable development and regional his appointment has been on mixed-race, mixed- District of Columbia. Gibson has also served as director equity. Fox works with community organizations and income communities; active public spaces; and of the Equal Opportunity Program at The Rockefeller coalitions advancing policy campaigns; creates and community development training opportunities. He Foundation, president of the Eugene and Agnes E. conducts trainings on tools and strategies for was formerly with the U.S. Department of Housing Meyer Foundation in Washington, DC, assistant city advancing social and economic equity; and conducts and Urban Development in Houston, Texas, where he administrator for Planning and Development for the research and writes about various issues related to worked on community economic development and District of Columbia, executive associate of The affordable housing, economic development, and affordable housing programs and projects. Prior to Potomac Institute, and executive secretary of the regional growth and development. She holds a BA working for the federal government, he served as the Atlanta Chapter of the NAACP. from Columbia University and a master’s degree in City assistant director of the City of Houston’s Planning and and Regional Planning from the University of Development Department where he managed various Parris N. Glendening California, Berkeley, where she was a HUD Community neighborhood revitalization programs. Prior to President, Smart Growth Leadership Institute Development Fellow. working for the city, he was the first executive director Parris N. Glendening is president of the Smart Growth for the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Leadership Institute. Glendening spent eight years as Robert Friedman Americans (AAMA) Community Development governor of the state of Maryland, where he made the General Counsel, Founder, and Chair, CFED Corporation where he redeveloped shopping centers environment, smart growth, education, and inclusiveness Robert Friedman is general counsel, founder, and chair and industrial parks, and initiated affordable housing the heart of his legislative, administrative, and of CFED’s board. Since 1979, CFED has worked to foster projects that included ownership and rental properties. personal agenda. Governor Glendening had the honor widely shared and sustainable economic well-being Garcia has strong interests in the convergence of arts, of being elected chairman of the National Governors’ by promoting asset-building and economic opportunity sports, and hip-hop culture in community revitalization. Association by his colleagues, where he made quality strategies that bring together community practice, He has also consulted throughout Latin America of life issues his top agenda item. He also served as public policy, and private markets in new and effective with energy exploration and production companies president of the Council of State Governments. He was ways. Friedman and CFED have helped lead the U.S. to formulate and implement community and elected to statewide office after serving three terms development of innovative economic development environmental development programs in sensitive as county executive of Prince George’s County, a strategies including micro-enterprise, flexible business locations that were experiencing civil unrest and illicit jurisdiction of 800,000 outside of Washington, DC. networks, individual development accounts, and economic development activities associated with Governor Glendening’s Smart Growth initiative— economic health assessments. Friedman’s current low intensity conflicts. aimed at ending sprawl, preserving open space, and work focuses on the Savings for Education, reinvigorating established communities—received Entrepreneurship, and Down payment (SEED) Policy Robert García several prestigious awards including the American and Practice Initiative to assess the potential of Executive Director and Counsel, Society of Landscape Architects’ Olmsted Award and long-term savings and investment accounts established Center for Law in the Public Interest the Harvard Innovations in American Government Speakers at birth. Friedman is author of several major Robert García is an attorney with extensive experience Award. He also was named a Public Official of the Year publications, including: The Return of the Dream: An in public policy and legal advocacy, mediation, and by Governing magazine, based on the impact of his Analysis of the Probable Economic Return of a National litigation involving complex social justice, human nationally recognized smart growth program. Investment in Individual Development Accounts health, environmental, and criminal justice matters. (1995), The Development Report Card for the States He has influenced the investment of over $18 billion in Michael Goldberg (co-author, 1986-1995), and The Safety Net As underserved communities, working at the intersection Principal, Action Media Ladder: Transfer Payments and Economic Development of social justice, sustainable regional planning, and Michael Goldberg has worked as a newspaper (1988). Friedman was founding chair of the smart growth. He graduated from Stanford University reporter, documentary film producer, and radio Association for Enterprise Opportunity; and currently and Stanford Law School, where he served on the producer. In 1988, while general manager of Northern serves on the board of Levi Strauss & Co., Ecotrust, Board of Editors of the Stanford Law Review. He is a Community Radio in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, he Friedman Family Foundation, and the Rosenberg nationally recognized leader in the urban park founded Superior Radio Network (now Great Lakes Foundation. Friedman is a graduate of Harvard movement, and served on the Executive Committee of Radio Consortium), a production company covering College and Yale Law School. the Yes on Prop 40 Campaign to help pass California’s environmental and Native American issues. As a $2.6 billion park, water and air bond in 2002, the community activist, he was involved in treaty rights Jill Fuglister largest in United States history, with unprecedented and efforts to prevent copper sulfide mining in Executive Director, Coalition for a Livable Future support among people of color and low-income northern Wisconsin. He and his partner, Dick Brooks, Jill Fuglister is the executive director of the Coalition communities. He is a senior fellow at the UCLA School recognized that people working for social change for a Livable Future (CLF), a coalition of 60 community of Public Policy and Social Research. He previously tended to overestimate the power of media they had organizations that work together to educate and served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the the least access to, and underestimate the power of organize citizens to implement sustainable and Southern District of New York under John Martin and media they themselves controlled—their own voices. equitable development strategies in the Portland, Rudolph W. Giuliani, prosecuting organized crime, In 1994, they established Action Media, to help people Oregon, metropolitan area. CLF’s Regional Equity Atlas public corruption, and international narcotics working for positive social change to say what they

52 53 mean to say, and to be strategic in their Moises Gonzales the passage of major state legislation, conducted communications. Based in Minneapolis, Action Media Executive Director, Mexicano Land Education and major studies, organized a New England-wide coalition works with community groups around the United Conservation Trust of affordable housing and community development States, on issues including community development, Moises Gonzales is executive director of the Mexicano organizations, and launched a diverse homeownership land use planning, transportation, affordable housing, Land Education and Conservation Trust, which provides collaborative. CHAPA conducts approximately 40 youth development, economic and environmental technical assistance in the area of land and water trainings each year for more than 6,000 practitioners justice, and renewable energy sources. Since July conservation and community development to protect in the housing field. Prior to becoming executive 2003, Action Media has worked with the Funders’ the communal lands of the 22 ejidos (community director of CHAPA, Gornstein was a neighborhood Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities ranch or farm) that still survive in Northern New planner for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and to reframe smart growth in order to increase the Mexico. He is a natural resource planner working in the director of housing for the Tri-City Community power and clarity of communications for improving high mountain Chicano land-based communities of Action Program, a community agency in Malden, our communities. Northern New Mexico. In recent years, as the assistant Massachusetts. He received his undergraduate degree planning director of Rio Arriba County he worked to from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his John Goldstein develop agricultural conservation policies to protect graduate degree from Tufts University’s Department of President, Milwaukee County Labor Council traditional agricultural lands, acequias (community Urban and Environmental Policy. In 2003, he was John Goldstein is president of the Milwaukee County ditch infrastructure), and localized watersheds from named a James A. Johnson Fellow by the Fannie Mae Labor Council, AFL-CIO. The Labor Council includes adverse development and rural gentrification. Foundation, which is given annually to six community over 150 affiliated local unions and 55,000 members. Gonzales is a member of a traditional ejido, known as development practitioners across the country. He is a lifelong trade unionist, first joining AFSCME in the Canon de Carnuel Land Grant, located in the east Gornstein has received housing advocacy awards from 1970. In 1974, he helped to organize his workplace face of the Sandia Mountain Range, established in the Massachusetts Department of Housing and with the Teamsters Union in Madison. He was elected 1763. He earned his master’s degree in natural Community Development, Massachusetts Housing to the Milwaukee Labor Council in 1997, after resource planning from the University of New Mexico Investment Corporation, and the Women’s Institute for spending 18 years with the Amalgamated Transit School of Architecture and Planning. Housing and Economic Development. He currently Union as a bus operator, union representative, and serves on Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s housing local union president. For many years, he has worked Gordon Francis Goodwin advisory commission. to involve union members in the affairs of their union Principal Consultant, Development Solutions and their community. In recent years, he has focused Gordon Francis Goodwin was reared in Detroit, Anika Goss-Foster his attention on promoting workers’ right to a voice in Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan, Program Director, Local Initiatives the workplace. In December of 2001, the AFL-CIO where he earned his bachelor’s and Master of Urban Support Corporation designated Milwaukee as one of 14 Union Cities, and Regional Planning degrees. Goodwin’s Anika Goss-Foster serves as the program director of recognizing the Labor Council for its work in support professional career began in southeast Michigan the Detroit office of the Local Initiatives Support for organizing, mobilization, politics and building where he worked as an industrial recruiter, a Corporation (LISC), which provides financial support community coalitions. Goldstein is also secretary of community land use planner, a small business and technical assistance to 35 community the Lynde and Harry Bradley School of Technology and assistance counselor, project staff member for Detroit’s development organizations that produce 1,920 units Trade Commission, Greater Milwaukee Committee, Industrial Development Finance Authority, and finally of affordable housing and 235,000 square feet of Competitive Wisconsin, and the American Jewish as a special projects staffer for Detroit’s public/ commercial space. Goss-Foster has negotiated and Committee. He was appointed by AFL-CIO President private development trust (Detroit Economic Growth implemented a $1.5 million overhaul of the City of John Sweeney to the National Labor Council Advisory Corporation). His career focus turned to rural Detroit’s property disposition process, developed the Committee, where he chairs the committee on communities while he worked at the Washington, DC, Metro Detroit Regional Investment Initiative that building community coalitions. He has a BA from office of The Corporation for Enterprise Development partners Detroit community-based organizations with Sarah Lawrence College and an MA from the in 1990. In 1991 he joined the staff of National Rural suburban communities for development planning, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Development and Finance Corporation. He also worked successfully completed a three-year $15 million for The Aspen Institute’s Rural Economic Policy fundraising campaign. Prior to taking on the program Mary Gonzales Program managing the Rural Community Foundations director role, Goss-Foster directed the Neighborhood California Director, Gamaliel Foundation Initiative, as well as other projects. In 2000, Gordon Partnership Academy (NPA) for LISC. The NPA provides Mary Gonzales is the California director for the founded Development Solutions, an economic technical assistance and training resources to Gamaliel Foundation, an international organizing development firm that provides development and community-based organizations located within the institute building faith-based organizations in the planning assistance to organizations that are striving Detroit Empowerment Zone (EZ). Prior to her tenure at United States, Canada, and South Africa. She is to improve local economies. Development Solutions LISC, she was employed by the University of Michigan presently working in the San Francisco Bay area and in has served the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Mid South to manage and direct their AmeriCorps National San Diego County. She entered the profession of Delta Initiative, The Rapides Foundation of Central Service Program. Goss-Foster started her career as an community organizing in 1980 and helped to found Louisiana, Southern Rural Development Initiative, organizer and advocate for women and children the Gamaliel Foundation in 1986. She served as the The Sapelo Foundation of Georgia, Neighborhood survivors of domestic violence in West Lafayette, founding director of the Metropolitan Alliance of Reinvestment Corporation, the Housing Assistance Indiana, where she also completed her undergraduate Congregations, a regional organization in the Chicago Council, OxFam America, and most recently, PolicyLink. work in Sociology at Purdue University. Goss-Foster area that has successfully brought together a diversity Goodwin serves as vice-chair for the board of The then moved to Detroit, where she completed her of faith communities representing many races, income Heartland Center for Leadership Development in master’s in Social Work at the University of Michigan levels, and cultures. MAC has led powerful campaigns Lincoln, Nebraska. and worked for the Detroit Urban League. that are building the political will to end inequity in how public and private resources are distributed in the Aaron Gornstein Court Gould Chicago area. Gonzales is a national staff member of Executive Director, Citizens’ Housing and Director, Sustainable Pittsburgh the Gamaliel Foundation and one of its primary Planning Association Court Gould is director of Sustainable Pittsburgh (SP), trainers. She trains at Gamaliel Foundation training Aaron Gornstein has been the executive director of a non-partisan civic forum and partnership advocating events and often travels to Gamaliel-affiliated Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) integration of economic growth, environmental organizations to train. She is the founder and primary since 1990. CHAPA is a private, nonprofit research and health, and social equity as the foundation for a high trainer for NTOSAKE, a women’s training program advocacy organization working on affordable housing quality of life in southwestern Pennsylvania. SP is within the Gamaliel Foundation. and community development issues in Massachusetts. building a network of affiliates who work together to Over the past several years, CHAPA has spearheaded advance on-the-ground projects, public education,

54 55 research, and advocacy in four primary areas: Smart University of California, Berkeley, and received an Alan A. Gumbel Land Use, Amenities and Lifestyle, Diversity and Civic honorary Doctorate of Public Service from Tufts University. Founder, Gumbel & Associates Engagement, Transportation for Livable Communities, Alan Gumbel is dedicated to strengthening communities and Sustainable Business Solutions. Gould has worked Maggie Grieve and organizations through the development, in federal, state, and local government and has a Senior Manager, Success Measures, implementation, and evaluation of community economic Master of Public Administration from the University of NeighborWorks America development programs. Gumbel has nearly 20 years Southern California. In the environmental arena, he Maggie Grieve, senior manager at NeighborWorks of community and economic development experience has worked for the International Air and Waste America (formerly Neighborhood Reinvestment in the Lower Mississippi Delta region. Blending a Management Association headquartered in Pittsburgh, Corporation), directs Success Measures, a participatory unique perspective of traditional and technology served as executive director of the Audubon Society of outcome-based evaluation initiative for the based economic development with a focus on Western Pennsylvania, and consulted to several community development field. Grieve is responsible regionalism and human development. Gumbel has national conservation organizations. He is active in for national dissemination of the Success Measures worked within state, federal, foundation, and citizen community organizations including serving recently as training and technical assistance programs and led efforts to build on community assets for chair of the Local Government Academy and president development and implementation of the related community change. Career highlights include serving of Friends of the Riverfront. Gould is a member of the Success Measures Data System, the program’s as the policy analyst for the Lower Mississippi Delta Steering Committee of Renew PA, a statewide integrated web-based evaluation planning, research, Development Commission with a research portfolio in initiative to advance reforms for the state’s and data management tool. Previously Grieve held this telecommunications, technology development, and competitiveness and quality of life. position at McAuley Institute where she worked public infrastructure; the first director of the Mid Delta closely with community-based organizations, Empowerment Zone Alliance in Mississippi, and as Joan Grangenois-Thomas researchers, and others to develop and test the Success community coach and evaluator for the W.K. Kellogg Media Coordinator, Douglas Gould and Company Measures method and technology tools. She also Foundation’s Mid South Delta Initiative. Forming Joan Grangenois-Thomas has been with Douglas served as director of Community Initiatives for Gumbel & Associates in 1998, Gumbel has worked Gould and Company since 2002. Douglas Gould and McAuley Institute and directed a variety of applied with many organizations throughout the region to Company helps progressive not-for-profit research projects including Women as Catalysts for build their strategic vision and organizational capacity organizations and foundations use the most effective Social Change: A Study of Women Led Community through training and technical assistance. Gumbel is communications tools to advance important causes. Development Organizations. This study served as an also the director of Regional Partnerships with the Grangenois-Thomas is involved in several aspects of organizing vehicle for the formation of the National Benjamin L. Hooks Institute at the University of Memphis. the company’s media outreach and project Network of Women in Community Development, of Gumbel received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science management activities. Her primary focus has been to which Grieve served as a founding member. Grieve has from Emporia State University in 1984 and is pursuing deliver message trainings on a major initiative for The more than 30 years of experience in neighborhood and graduate studies at the University of Memphis. Ford Foundation called For An Economy That Works for strategic planning, evaluation, research, and All. The goal of this project is to develop messages and collaborative citizen involvement processes for both Chip Halbach create strategic communications tools and techniques local and national organizations. Co-founder and Executive Director, that will raise public awareness about the conditions Minnesota Housing Partnership affecting low-wage workers to help this population Paul S. Grogan Chip Halbach is the co-founder and executive director gain equal access to the wealth and promise of the President and Chief Executive Officer, of the Minnesota Housing Partnership (MHP). Formed American economy. The Boston Foundation in 1989, MHP has gained national recognition for its Paul Grogan became the president and Chief Executive work to build the capacity of nonprofit developers in Robert Greenstein Officer of the Boston Foundation, one of the nation’s Minnesota and to promote affordable housing as a Executive Director, Center on Budget and oldest and largest community foundations in 2001. statewide priority. MHP is the lead sponsoring agency Policy Priorities With an endowment of more than $675 million, the for HousingMinnesota, the public education and Robert Greenstein is executive director of the Center on foundation distributed grants of almost $50 million to advocacy campaign now being emulated in several Budget and Policy Priorities, an independent, nonprofit nonprofit organizations throughout the Greater Boston states. Halbach has worked for housing organizations organization established in 1981 to analyze federal community in 2004. Grogan joined the foundation in Minnesota since 1977. Prior to MHP, he was and state budget and policy issues affecting low- from Harvard University, where he served as vice assistant director of Common Space, a Twin Cities- income and moderate-income Americans. In 1996, president for Government, Community, and Public based developer and support organization for Speakers Greenstein was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, and Affairs. He was also a senior lecturer at the Harvard cooperative housing. Halbach serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation cited Greenstein for making Business School. Grogan spearheaded unprecedented directors of numerous organizations including the the center a model for a non-partisan research and university commitments to the community, including National Low Income Housing Coalition and The policy organization. Greenstein has served as $21 million for affordable housing and $5 million for Campaign for Affordable Housing. administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service of the the Harvard After School Initiative. From 1986 through U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he had primary 1998, he was president and CEO of the nonprofit Ponsella Hardaway responsibility for the nation’s food assistance Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the Executive Director, Metropolitan Organizing programs, including the food stamp and school lunch nation’s largest community development intermediary. Strategy for Enabling Strength (MOSES) programs and WIC, the Special Supplemental Food In his term as president, LISC raised and invested Ponsella Hardaway is a native Detroiter and a senior at Program for Women, Infants, and Children. He has more than $3 billion of private capital in inner city Marygrove College, where she is working toward a contributed articles to a number of publications, revitalization efforts across America, all channeled degree in political science. Since 1996, Hardaway has including The New York Times, The Washington Post, through local nonprofit community development been an organizer with MOSES, an interracial, the Los Angeles Times, and , and to a corporations. Grogan graduated with a degree with interfaith organization of people whose faith compels number of books such as the 1991 volume, The Urban honors in American History from Williams College and them to act powerfully on issues of social and Underclass, and recently, The New World of Welfare, earned a master’s degree in Administration from the economic justice for all people. She is also a national both published by the Brookings Institution Press. He Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a trustee trainer with the Gamaliel Foundation, an international has been a guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, of Williams College, the John S. and James L. Knight organizing institute that provides training and ABC’s Good Morning America, the CBS Evening News, Foundation, and he chairs the board of the for-profit resources to community and church leaders to aid in The Today Show, CNN, C-SPAN, and other network, company, the Community Development Trust. Grogan their efforts to build and maintain empowerment- cable, and local television and radio programs. is the co-author, with Tony Proscio, of the book focused organizations like MOSES. She has trained Greenstein received his undergraduate degree from Comeback Cities, published in October 2000. congregation leaders in South Africa and Swaziland. Harvard University, and has done graduate work at the On September 29, 2002, Hardaway was part of a team

54 55 that organized 5,000 people to address issues of balance with regards to commerce, the growth of Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Public Welfare during regional equity, transportation, and civil rights of natural resources, and environmental protection. As a Governor Tom Ridge’s administration, treasurer of the immigrant children. She recently organized a public community leader, he has distinguished himself in State of New Jersey under Governor Tom Kean, chief rally of 4,500 to address crime and safety, land bank, numerous endeavors and is the recipient of countless financial officer of the Southeastern Pennsylvania healthcare, public transportation, civil rights, and awards from throughout the nation. He is one of the Transportation Authority (SEPTA), and in a number of urban infrastructure preservation. founders of the California Association of Black Lawyers senior positions with the U.S. Department of Housing and presided at its first meeting. He has received the and Urban Development. Houstoun has had a diverse David J. Harris NAACP’s highest legal honor, the “William Robert range of experiences related to the foundation’s work, Executive Director, Fair Housing Center of Ming Award,”the NBA’s highest honor, the “C. Francis including the development of the State Planning Greater Boston Stradford Award,” and in July 20005 will receive Kappa Commission in New Jersey, helping to launch the New David Harris is the executive director of the Fair Alpha Psi’s highest honor, the “Laurel Wreath.” He is a Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, and service Housing Center of Greater Boston, a position he has member of the Executive Leadership Council. He on the boards of Philadelphia’s Center City District, the held since 1999. Prior to assuming this position, he graduated from Merritt College in 1963 and from New Jersey State Aquarium, the New Jersey Network, served as a fair housing investigator with the U.S. San Francisco State University in 1965. He received his and the Housing Finance Agencies of both Department of Housing and Urban Development. JD from the University of California, Berkeley, School Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Houstoun has published Before that Harris was a civil rights analyst with the of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1972. Harris also completed articles on growth management, gubernatorial U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, both in Washington, the Harvard Graduate School of Business Advanced leadership, housing, and linkages between business DC, and the New England Regional Office. He holds a Management Program, and the Management districts and transportation. PhD in sociology from Harvard University and a BA Development Program at Duke University’s School from Georgetown University. Harris currently serves as of Business. Craig Howard vice chair of the Massachusetts Community and Vice President, MDRC Banking Council, clerk of the board of the Massachusetts Lisa Hasegawa Craig Howard is MDRC’s vice president for Community Foundation for the Humanities, chair of the Medford Executive Director, National Coalition for Asian Initiatives. He co-directs the Jobs-Plus Community Human Rights Commission, and vice president of the Pacific American Community Development Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families and Medford Branch of the NAACP. Harris is an adjunct Lisa Hasegawa is the executive director of the National is director of the Camden Revitalization Project and the faculty member at Cambridge College. Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community California Works for Better Health Initiative. Howard Development (National CAPACD). The mission of also works on the Work Advancement and Support Maya Harris National CAPACD is to be a powerful voice for the Center demonstration. Prior to joining MDRC, he was Associate Director, American Civil Liberties Union of unique community development needs of Asian senior program director for the James Irvine Northern California (ACLU-NC) American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and Foundation in San Francisco. Howard was formerly a Maya Harris is the associate director of the ACLU of to strengthen the capacity of community-based planner with the National Economic Development and Northern California. She was previously the director of organizations to create neighborhoods of hope and Law Center and a program officer at the Ford the ACLU’s Racial Justice Project, leading the project’s opportunities. National CAPACD is the first national Foundation, first in the Office for Eastern and Southern litigation, public education, lobbying, and grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to meeting the Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, and later in the Urban Poverty organizing work toward eliminating racial disparities housing and community development needs of AAPI Program in the foundation’s New York office. in the criminal justice system and achieving communities. They focus on four key community educational equity in California public schools. Before development areas: affordable housing development; Gerald Hudson joining the ACLU, Harris was a senior associate at economic development, including workforce and Executive Vice President, Service Employees PolicyLink, where she conducted research and policy business development; community empowerment International Union/1199 advocacy on policing issues and authored two national and cultural preservation; and neighborhood As executive vice president of New York’s SEIU/1199 publications. Prior to that, Harris served as dean of revitalization. In 2003, Hasegawa was a fellow in The for the past 15 years, Gerry Hudson has had a wide Lincoln Law School of San Jose. At the time of her Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Generation Leadership ranging impact on the fight for workers’ rights. Hudson appointment, the National Law Journal reported that, Program. Prior to joining National CAPACD, Hasegawa was working at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in “at age 29, she is perhaps the youngest law school was the community liaison for the White House Riverdale, New York when he joined SEIU Local 144 in dean in the country.” Harris has also been an adjunct Initiative on AAPIs where she was responsible for 1978. He went to work at then-District 1199 in 1986 faculty member at various San Francisco Bay Area law ensuring that AAPI community groups from across the as the union’s education director; he was elected to the schools. Harris is a graduate of the University of country were involved and informed about initiative executive vice president position three years later. For California, Berkeley and Stanford Law School. She was activities. She also worked for the U.S. Department of more than a dozen years, he’s supervised the union’s honored with the Junius W. Williams Young Lawyer of Health and Human Services Health Resources and political action, education, publications, and cultural the Year Award from the National Bar Association and Services Administration and the Office of Minority affairs departments. During his tenure, Hudson named one of the Top 20 Up and Coming Lawyers Health. Previously, she worked at two community coordinated the merger of the 30,000 member Local Under 40 by the San Francisco Daily Journal. health centers serving low-income AAPIs in Los Angeles 144 into SEIU/1199. He also founded the 1199 School and Oakland, California. Hasegawa is a graduate of for Social Change—a former alternative school in the Robert L. Harris UCLA and the Harvard School of Public Health. Bronx—and served as a trustee of the Local 1199 Vice President of Environmental Affairs, Training and Upgrading Fund, the Home Care Workers Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Feather O. Houstoun Benefit Fund, and the Michaelson Education Fund. Robert Harris is vice president of Environmental Affairs President, William Penn Foundation Hudson also has an extensive background in politics. at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a Fortune As president of the William Penn Foundation, Feather He led the presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson in 500 Company, headquartered in San Francisco, O. Houstoun is responsible for the foundation’s $59 New York and the successful New York City mayoral California. Before election to his current position in million grantmaking budget, as well as its external campaign of , and also served as deputy 1998, he was elected in 1994, vice president of affairs, finances, and administration. Houstoun director of the for Governor Campaign in Community Relations. In this position, Harris previously served on the foundation’s board of directors 1994. Hudson’s leadership was instrumental in electing oversees PG&E’s environmental programs and and was an executive with AmeriChoice, a United H.Carl McCall the first African American comptroller in initiatives and is responsible for the utility’s Health Group company serving Medicaid clients in New York State. In 1996, he also served as political compliance with local, state, and federal 13 states, and was a senior visiting scholar at the director of the New York State Democratic Party. environmental laws. He is also responsible for the University of Pennsylvania teaching and conducting company’s remediation work and its focus on research on public management issues. Houstoun has environmental leadership, which ensures a careful worked at every level of government, serving as

56 57 Justin Kii Huenemann cities across the country, and is widely regarded as an including Monthly, The Washington Post, American Indian Families Project innovator in the fight against working poverty. Prior to the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, the Justin Kii Huenemann oversees the American Indian founding LAANE, Janis-Aparicio served as executive Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Baltimore Sun. Before Families Project, a historic partnership between director of the Central American Refugee Center joining Brookings, Katz served as chief of staff to Henry Hennepin County and the American Indian (CARECEN), where she helped lead a successful G. Cisneros, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of community. He is a member of the Navajo Nation, campaign to legalize and regulate the activities of the Housing and Urban Development. He has also served born and raised on the Navajo Reservation in northern mostly Latino immigrant sidewalk vendors. She also as the staff director of the Senate Subcommittee Arizona. He has devoted his career to serving American headed efforts to combat civil rights abuses of Central on Housing and Urban Affairs. Katz is a graduate of Indian people. Huenemann is recognized for his American immigrants by the Los Angeles Police Brown University and Yale Law School. He is also a accomplishments in areas of civic engagement, Department and the Immigration and Naturalization visiting professor of Social Policy at the London School interdisciplinary communication strategies, and Service, and helped tens of thousands of Central of Economics. community leadership. In addition, he has extensive American immigrants achieve legal immigrant status. experience in areas of public policy, education, Janis-Aparicio, an attorney, has also represented William Kennedy governmental affairs, and community relations. His tenants and homeless people in slum housing litigation, Managing Attorney, Sacramento Office, work experience includes service in higher education and advocated for homeless disabled people who had Legal Services of Northern California institutions, community nonprofits, and government been denied government benefits. She worked Bill Kennedy is the managing attorney of the Sacramento entities. Huenemann is a national speaker and for two years at the law firm of Latham & Watkins on office of Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC), presenter on American Indian issues, particularly in commercial litigation and land use matters, representing a position he has held since 1990. He has been an areas of youth and family development, community many large companies throughout Los Angeles. advocate for low-income families for the past 30 years. leadership, and urban Indian affairs. He believes his His legal work has focused primarily on civil rights, first and principal education came from his family, Martin P. Johnson housing policy, and the nexus between the two. In culture, and the natural environment. He received his Founder and President, Isles, Inc. recent years he has counseled local community groups undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Martin P. Johnson is founder and president of Isles, on economic development including development of University of Minnesota. Inc., a Trenton, New Jersey-based community and affordable housing, jobs, childcare, and transportation. environmental development organization. Founded in In Sacramento, he is general counsel to the Sacramento Lisette Islas 1981, Isles’ mission is to foster more self-reliant families Valley Organizing Community (SVOC), the largest Director of Community Organizing, Jacobs Center in healthy, sustainable communities. Isles provides multicultural faith-based organization in Northern for Neighborhood Innovation technical, research, organizing, and development California. Working with SVOC, he has provided the Lisette Islas is the director of Community Organizing at assistance in communities throughout central New legal support for the development of more than 500 the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation (JCNI). Jersey, including programs in real estate development, units of single family homes affordable to families Her efforts focus on creating community and capacity- job training and education, financial self-reliance earning as little as $20,000 per year; the creation of building strategies. As part of her role with JCNI, Islas services, urban agriculture, brownfield cleanup, eight child care centers in low-income neighborhoods; leads the community arts program, which brings environmental health, and community planning and and the creation of the most successful welfare to residents and artists together to design and create a outreach. Johnson is a member of the National Council work one stop centers in the region placing collection of public art works for the neighborhoods of Churches Advisory Board, General Electric (GE) participants into jobs averaging $9.50 per hour with of southeastern San Diego. She is also working Community Development Enterprise Advisory Board, benefits. Kennedy has published articles on with residents to establish the Neighborhood Unity and the Capital Health System Board, and a trustee of community economic development strategies, military Foundation, the first foundation in the country the Metropolitan Trenton African American Chamber of base closures, and enforcement of regional mandates designed and governed by residents to serve and Commerce, the Capital City Redevelopment in the American Bar Association Journal and the support philanthropic efforts in their community. Corporation, and the National Housing Institute. He is National Clearinghouse Review. In addition, Islas co-developed and manages the also a trustee of Princeton University. Johnson was a Neighborhood Coordinators Program, an innovative founder of the New Jersey Community Loan Fund Brian Kettenring, approach to equip residents of a community with (now NJ Community Capital) and a founding trustee Southern Regional Director, Association of the tools they need to strengthen and improve their of the Housing and Community Development Network Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) neighborhoods. The Neighborhood Coordinators of NJ. He spent 1996-97 on sabbatical teaching Brian Kettenring is the southern regional director for receive training in community building, organizing community and urban economic development at the ACORN, the nation’s largest community organization of Speakers their neighbors to define and address community Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. He is low- and moderate-income families. He has been a concerns. For those efforts, she received an official a graduate of Princeton University. community organizer for 11 years. Prior to this commendation from the City of San Diego in 2004. position, Kettenring served as the head state organizer Islas has been with JCNI for more than six years and Bruce Katz for ACORN in Florida. During that time, the Florida has eleven years of experience in community Vice President, Brookings Institution and Founding organization expanded the organizing staff from 7 to development and action research organizations. She Director, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program 60, opened five new offices, significantly increased the studied urban planning at the University of California, Bruce Katz is a vice president at the Brookings organization’s leadership and membership, and Los Angeles. Institution and founding director of the Brookings launched major campaigns around health care, living Metropolitan Policy Program, which seeks to redefine wage/economic justice, and voter empowerment. This Madeline Janis-Aparicio the challenges facing cities and metropolitan areas by work culminated in November 2004 with the passage Co-founder and Executive Director, Los Angeles publishing cutting edge research on major of Amendment 5 on a constitutional amendment Alliance for a New Economy demographic, market, development, and governance raising Florida’s minimum wage to $6.15 with Madeline Janis-Aparicio is co-founder and executive trends. Katz regularly advises national, state, regional, indexing. Amendment 5 won 71% of the vote, and in director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New and municipal leaders on policy reforms that advance the course of the amendment campaign, 208,000 new Economy. In 2002, she was appointed by Los Angeles the competitiveness of metropolitan areas. Katz is a voters registered, tens of thousands of voters mobilized Mayor James Hahn as a volunteer commissioner to frequent writer and commentator on urban and to vote, and a broad grassroots movement emerged. the board of the city’s Community Redevelopment metropolitan issues. He is the co-editor of Redefining Kettenring has held lead and head organizer positions Agency, the country’s largest such agency. Janis- Urban and Suburban America (published by Brookings with Chicago ACORN and Oakland ACORN, working on Aparicio led the historic campaign to pass Los Angeles’ Institution Press in 2003) and editor of Reflections on the successful living wage campaigns in those cities. In living wage ordinance, which has since become a Regionalism (published by Brookings Institution Press addition, he helped found a new Sacramento ACORN national model. She has provided training and in 2000). His op-eds and articles have appeared in a organization and served as California state campaign assistance to living wage coalitions in more than 20 wide range of major national and regional newspapers, director. During his tenure, ACORN successfully lobbied

56 57 the California legislature to pass the nation’s second G. Thomas Kingsley Julie K. Kohler state law banning predatory lending, and also won Director, Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, Program Officer, National Venture Fund, two major renters’ rights protections. Urban Institute John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Tom Kingsley is a senior researcher and research Julie K. Kohler is the program officer for the John S. George Khaldun manager in housing, urban policy, and governance and James L. Knight Foundation’s National Venture Chief Operating Officer, Harlem Children’s Zone issues at the Urban Institute, and is the author of Fund, which seeks to deepen the foundation’s impact George Khaldun has worked at the Harlem Children’s numerous publications in those fields. He served as by creating systemic change across Knight’s areas of Zone (HCZ) for 15 years. Prior to becoming chief the director of the institute’s Center for Public Finance funding interest. In 2004, the fund launched a $13.5 operating officer, he served as deputy to the president. and Housing from 1986 through 1997. He currently million immigrant integration initiative, which aims to Khaldun was also a program director of foster care directs the National Neighborhood Indicators help recent immigrants integrate into communities by prevention program and after school programs. During Partnership, an initiative to further the development encouraging civic participation, focusing in particular his tenure, HCZ has more than tripled its number of of advanced data systems for policy analysis and on naturalization and English language proficiency. employees and programs offered. He was instrumental community building in U.S. cities. He also serves as Kohler joined the Knight Foundation in 2002 as a in the expansion of HCZ’s after school programs as well director of projects to develop and use national data content program officer for children and families. as implementing Fifth Grade Institute and HCZ’s files to analyze patterns of neighborhood change in In that role, she provided research, planning, and computer-based literature programs. His professional America’s cities (for The Rockefeller Foundation) evaluation support to Knight’s national and community experience is both as a teacher and a practitioner. As a and to develop decision support tools to help guide grantmaking programs. She was promoted to her teacher, he has taught at both the primary and land market strategies in five cities (for The Brookings current position in September 2004. Kohler received secondary school levels. In addition, he was a Institution). bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Human professor at Bermuda College and an adjunct professor Development/Family Studies. She earned a Master of at the College of New Rochelle. Khaldun is a graduate Josh Kirschenbaum Arts and a PhD in Family Social Science from the of Bowdoin College and holds a master’s degree in Senior Associate, PolicyLink University of Minnesota. Prior to joining The Knight educational policy from Teacher’s College, Columbia Josh Kirschenbaum leads the Community Building in Foundation, she worked at the University of University. He also completed the Columbia University the Digital Age Initiative, expanding the role of Maryland’s Department of Family Studies, where she Business School Executive Management Training information technology as a tool for achieving economic conducted research on the effects of social policy and Program. Khaldun has received numerous awards, and social equity. Previously, Kirschenbaum directed a programs on children and families and taught courses including the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and the defense conversion research program for the University on child development and family policy. Her articles Charles A. Revson Fellowship. of California, Berkeley, where he also managed have appeared in a number of books and professional partnerships between the University and the City of journals, including Journal of Marriage and Family Daniel T. Kildee Oakland. He holds a BA from Brown University and a and Family Relations. Treasurer, Genesee County, Michigan master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Daniel T. Kildee was elected Genesee County Treasurer the University of California, Berkeley. Stewart Kwoh in November 1996. Kildee currently serves as chairman President and Executive Director, Asian Pacific of the Fifth Congressional District Democratic Party. George F. Knox American Legal Center of Southern California Before his election as treasurer, Kildee served for 12 Senior Principal, The Knox Firm Stewart Kwoh was named a 1998 MacArthur Foundation years as a Genesee County Commissioner, including George F. Knox is one of Miami’s most respected Fellow. He is the first Asian American attorney and five years as chairman of the Board of Commissioners. business and community leaders. He has been human rights activist to receive this highly prestigious He attended Mott Community College and the instrumental in shaping South Florida’s diverse recognition, often referred to as a “genius grant.” Kwoh University of Michigan, Flint. Recently, Kildee initiated economic landscape. Knox is an expert in facilitating is the president and executive director of the Asian an effort to use Michigan’s new tax foreclosure law as joint venture partnerships between the public and Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California a tool for community development and neighborhood private sector. He also specializes in public policy, (APALC). Under Kwoh’s leadership, the APALC has stabilization. He founded the Genesee Land Bank— corporate transactions, urban development, and become the largest and most diverse legal assistance Michigan’s first land bank—and serves as its chairman strategic planning, creating innovative business and civil rights organization targeting Asian Pacific and chief executive officer. Kildee is president of the ventures for a variety of entrepreneurial, corporate, and Americans in the United States. He is also vice-chair of Genesee Institute, a research and training institute institutional clientele that aim to benefit all parties the board of directors for the National Asian Pacific focusing on Smart Growth, urban land reform, and involved, as well as the community. The approach, American Legal Consortium (NAPALC), which was land banking. Also, Governor Granholm and legislative which has been coined a “the third win,” has positively co-founded by APALC in 1991. Kwoh earned his BA at leaders appointed Kildee to the Michigan Land Use impacted numerous community organizations. A UCLA and his JD degree from the UCLA Law School. Leadership Council, which made 160 recommendations leader and teacher, Knox has lectured at the University He has been chair of the board of directors (2000- to deal with urban sprawl and other land use issues. of Miami School of Law and its School of Business 2002) of The California Endowment, and a trustee of Kildee is a member of the Michigan Economic and Administration, Nova University law school, and the Methodist Urban Foundation, California Consumer Environmental Roundtable, is co-chair of the Michigan Florida International University College of Urban and Protection Foundation, The California Endowment, Redevelopment Readiness Advisory Council, and Public Affairs. Miami Business Magazine has listed him The California Wellness Foundation, The Tang Family serves on the board of directors of the Land Information among the “100 Most Powerful People in Miami.” Foundation, and The Fannie Mae Foundation. He Access Association and the board of directors of He is a director of City National Bank, the leading serves on the boards of PolicyLink, the United Way of Automation Alley, southeastern Michigan’s regional Community Bank in Florida. Knox received his bachelor’s Greater Los Angeles, a public television station, KCET, technology cluster designed to attract technology- degree from Michigan State University, majoring in and a public radio station, SCPR. After the civil unrest based industry to the region. He is also on the advisory Zoology, and his JD from the in Los Angeles in 1992, Kwoh helped to initiate the board for the National Vacant Properties Campaign. School of Law. Multicultural Collaborative, a committee of 11 minority organizations dedicated to develop a comprehensive plan for human relations improvement in Los Angeles.

Reverend Joseph C. Kyles Founder and Pastor, Heirs of the Promise Church Rev. Joseph C. Kyles is the founder and pastor of Heirs of the Promise Church in Chicago. He has worked in numerous churches in the community and many areas of ministry over the past 16 years. Most recently, he

58 59 worked as an assistant pastor and church administrator. volunteer management and fundraising at the United Penn Loh His other roles include Bible class teacher and Way of Long Island and WLIW21 New York Public Executive Director, Alternatives for Community developer of church structure and strategy. He served Television. Lansdale holds a master’s degree in Urban & Environment for six years in the United States Army and attended Planning from New York University and a BS in Penn Loh, executive director of Alternatives for Western New Mexico State University. Along with his Environmental Studies and Agricultural Economics. Community & Environment, holds an MS in wife, he developed a successful, ongoing business environmental science and policy from the Energy that is currently 18 years old. He is the chairman of the Jesus Leon and Resources Group of the University of California at

37th Ward Pastors Alliance, where he works with Program Manager, Funders’ Network for Smart Berkeley. Loh joined ACE in 1995 and has served as Themes elected officials and community advocates to ensure Growth and Livable Communities Research and Development director, and more recently the involvement of pastors throughout the Jesus “Jesse” Leon works with foundations to identify as associate director. Before joining ACE, he was a community. Pastor Kyles is also part of the Progessive and connect key leaders needed to implement research associate at the Pacific Institute for Studies Fellowship for Kingdom Builders under the direction of equitable development demonstration projects in in Development, Environment, and Security in Apostle Donald L. Alford in Hillside, Illinois. Under the selected regions across the U.S. and Canada to address Oakland, California, and a research analyst at the Tellus leadership of Pastor Kyles, Heirs of the Promise issues such as gentrification, economic development, Institute for Resource and Environmental Strategies in administers numerous social programs, including a housing, transportation, and criminal justice to achieve Boston. He has published broadly on environmental holiday food for the hungry initiative, clothing livable communities. Previous to the Funders’ Network and social justice issues. In the fall of 1996, he was Agenda giveaways, annual back-to-school concerts with free (TFN), Leon worked in the Public Finance Department selected to a two-year term on the National school supplies, and adoption of the Leslie Lewis at Standard and Poor’s in New York City, where he Environmental Justice Advisory Council’s Health and Elementary School, with school supplies donated to conducted in-depth financial, economic, and Research Subcommittee. He currently serves on the underprivileged children. managerial analyses of governments to assess their boards of the Environmental Support Center and the credit worthiness for bond financing. His volunteer Environmental Leadership Program. Brad Lander experiences include working with HIV/AIDS issues in Director, Pratt Institute Center for Community and people of color communities and inner city youth Roberto Lovato Workshops Environmental Development organizations on social justice issues and community Writer, Pacific News Service Brad Lander is director of the Pratt Institute Center for organizing, as well as being a mentor and volunteer Roberto Lovato is a New York-based writer with Pacific Community and Environmental Development. The group discussion facilitator in youth incarceration units News Service. His writing has appeared in The Los Pratt Center works for a more just, equitable, and throughout the U.S. on topics ranging from drugs to Angeles Times, The Nation, Salon, and other publications. sustainable city for all New Yorkers, by empowering education for incarcerated youth. Leon received his Lovato has served as the head of the country’s largest communities to plan for and realize their futures. The Master of Public Policy degree in 2001 from the Central American advocacy organization, Central center leverages professional skills—especially Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. American Resource Center, based in Los Angeles. His

planning, architecture and public policy—to support While at Harvard, Leon worked on a number of interests focus on media consolidation, national Book Signing community-based organizations in their efforts to projects involving economic development (on Native security and race, electronic surveillance, social improve neighborhood quality of life, attack the causes American reservations), digital divide issues, and inner movements, immigration, and American foreign of poverty and inequality, and advance sustainable city nonprofit organizational assessment. He received policy. Lovato is the recipient of 2003-2004 George development. From 1993 to 2003, Lander served as his BA in American Studies with an emphasis in Social Washington Williams Fellowship of executive director of the Fifth Avenue Committee, Policy and Social Justice from the University of Press Assocation. a community development organization that advances California, Berkeley. social and economic justice in South Brooklyn by Tammy Bang Luu developing affordable housing, creating economic Greg LeRoy Lead Organizer, Labor/Community Strategy Center, Screening Room opportunity, organizing residents and workers, Executive Director, Good Jobs First and Bus Riders Union and offering adult education opportunities. Lander With more than 20 years’ experience in economic Tammy Bang Luu is a lead organizer with the Labor/ also teaches urban planning at Pratt. He serves development, Greg LeRoy launched Good Jobs First in Community Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union’s on the boards of the Jewish Fund for Justice and 1998. It is a nonprofit, non-partisan resource (BRU) “Billions for Buses, Fight Transit Racism” the Association for Neighborhood and Housing promoting accountability in economic development campaign in Los Angeles. Luu directs the campaign’s Development. He holds an MS in Planning from Pratt, and smart growth for working families. Besides its Koreatown organizing work, helping to develop and an MS in Social Anthropology from University College website (www.goodjobsfirst.org) and publications, build a vibrant multiracial, multilingual, Speakers London, and a BA from the University of Chicago. GJF trains and testifies extensively: more than 385 multigenerational movement of thousands of low- presentations in 107 cities in 39 states, including income bus riders. Since 1994, the BRU has won over a Sarah Lansdale National League of Cities, National Conference of State billion dollars in bus improvements and fleet Executive Director, Sustainable Long Island Legislatures, Council of State Governments, International expansions from the Los Angeles Metropolitan After a national search, Sarah Lansdale was selected as Economic Development Council, California Association Transportation Authority, building a clean-fuel public Sustainable Long Island’s executive director in for Local Economic Development, and testimony in transportation system in the most air-polluted, auto- September 2004. Lansdale has a diverse background, several states. LeRoy is also a nationally recognized dominated city in the United States. Along with being bringing experience in fundraising, environmental expert on sprawl and smart growth and their the largest mass transit advocacy organization in the studies, and urban planning to the organization. relationship to jobs and economic development. Good United States, the BRU also connects civil rights, Before accepting the position of executive director she Jobs First has been cited in the news media more than mass transit, sustainable ecology, and economic was Sustainable Long Island’s development director, 1,000 times, and has issued two dozen major studies development in its policy papers, including Five Year raising more than $1.3 million for the organization, including Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Plan for Countywide New Bus Service. Luu represented and served as program coordinator, managing the Taxpayer Dollars to Finance Its Never-Ending Growth, the Strategy Center at the 2002 World Summit on organization’s successful brownfields program. Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work…Offshore, The Policy Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Lansdale has extensive community outreach experience, Shift to Good Jobs, and Missing the Bus: How States Fail Africa and is a co-host on the Strategy Center’s weekly including two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in to Connect Economic Development with Public Transit. one-hour radio show called Voices from the Frontlines Guatemala. Fluent in Spanish, Lansdale created a LeRoy is the author of No More Candy Store: States and on KPFK 90.7, the Pacifica station for Southern California. community development magazine, Un Paso Adelante, Cities Making Job Subsidies Accountable (1994), and served as a liaison between the farmers, trade 1988 winner of the Public Interest Pioneer Award. His Elizabeth R. Lynn associations, and private companies, and conducted next book, The Great American Jobs Scam, will be Senior Program Officer, McCune Foundation community needs assessment and project -planning published in 2005. Elizabeth Lynn joined the McCune Foundation in 1995 workshops. Her nonprofit experience encompasses where she shares grantmaking responsibilities across

58 59 the foundation’s four program areas: education, of Federal Policy for Local Initiatives Support Corporation corporate, and community-based institutions; human services, culture, and civic. Earlier in her career (LISC), a national nonprofit intermediary supporting community economic development training; and she was vice-president of Economic Roundtable community-based economic development activities in technical assistance for 70 congregations in the San (Los Angeles), community development specialist 35 cities and rural communities. She has also served as Francisco Bay Area. for the Defense Conversion Commission (Washington, program director at the Enterprise Foundation, a DC), and a special projects manager at the Ben special assistant to the director of the Boston Marvin Martin Franklin Technology Center of Western PA (now Redevelopment Authority, and an associate in the law Director, Greater Four Corners Action Coalition InnovationWorks). Lynn has a BA in International firm of Hill & Barlow. Maith graduated from Harvard Marvin Martin is the director of the Greater Four Relations from Bucknell University and an MA in Law School cum laude and the Kennedy School of Corners Action Coalition (GFCAC) in Dorchester, Regional and Urban Planning from University of Government in 1987. She received her undergraduate Massachusetts. He has been organizing in Baltimore California, Los Angeles. She has served on the board of degree in public policy from Duke University magna and Boston for over eighteen years. Martin is a the Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood cum laude. She serves on the board of directors of the founding member of Action for Regional Equity, a Development, Workforce Connections Advisory Board, Montgomery Housing Partnership, Inc. greater Boston-based coalition of community groups Social Enterprise Advisory Committee, and Advisory advancing the concept of regional equity in Committee of the Regional and Neighborhood Equity Carrie Makarewicz Massachusetts. Martin and the GFCAC have been at Program (Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Senior Research Analyst, Center for the forefront in the battle for environmental justice in Livable Communities). Neighborhood Technology Boston, particularly transit equity and healthy homes. Carrie Makarewicz is a senior research analyst in the Charles Lyons Research and Development division of CNT. Her Sharmain Matlock-Turner Past President, National League of Cities, and background is in business reorganization, computer President, Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Selectman (1981-2005), Arlington, Massachusetts information systems, public finance, economic Coalition (GPUAC) Charles Lyons is immediate past president of the development, and urban planning and policy. After Sharmain Matlock-Turner began her tenure at GPUAC National League of Cities (NLC), the nation’s oldest earning a bachelor’s degree in business administration on March 1, 1999, with a special distinction: she is and largest organization representing municipal from the University of Michigan, she spent several the first woman ever to lead GPUAC, a nonprofit government. He served as president of NLC in 2004, years as a business process and organizational change organization that got its start in 1969 as the Philadelphia where he championed the American Dream consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Urban Coalition. Matlock-Turner came to GPUAC with campaign, an effort to increase collaboration across In 1999, she changed careers and earned a master’s a long history of community service and commitment local, state, and federal governments to enhance and degree in Urban Planning and Public Affairs form the to building consensus among diverse audiences. She increase job, housing, and educational opportunities University of Illinois-Chicago. Makarewicz has since formerly worked as associate vice president, Mercy for all Americans. During his tenure as NLC president, worked in several nonprofit, government, and private Health System and chief of staff to the late Lyons crisscrossed the country advocating on behalf of organizations in Chicago, including the City of Chicago Pennsylvania Senator Roxanne H. Jones. GPUAC brings American cities and towns. Lyons served as an Office of Budget and Management, the Institute of together business and community leaders to solve Arlington selectman since 1981. He is past president Government and Public Affairs, the Metropolitan urban problems, operates programs, and supports an of the Massachusetts Selectmen’s Association, served Planning Council, the City of Chicago Department of array of government and private sector-sponsored on the Governor’s Local Government Advisory Council, Planning and Development, and S.B. Friedman & initiatives to help the disadvantaged and working poor and chairs Arlington’s Affordable Housing Task Force. Company. Her research and work in the planning and of the Philadelphia region. At GPUAC, Matlock-Turner From 1985 to 1996, he served on the Board of policy fields includes transportation and housing is responsible for overseeing a $23 million budget and Directors of the Massachusetts Water Resources finance, economic development strategies, household nearly 400 employees. GPUAC’s service areas include Authority, which was established to clean up Boston wealth creation, and transit-oriented development. Economic and Business Development, Education, Harbor and provide a safe water supply. He has served Workforce Development, Health, and Neighborhood & on NLC’s Board of Directors and on several committees Dwayne S. Marsh Community Services. Matlock-Turner works tirelessly including the Energy, Environment and Natural Senior Associate, PolicyLink to help the community in the areas of housing, Resources Policy Committee, the Infrastructure Task Dwayne S. Marsh, senior associate, works with community development, education, and health, Force, and the Nominating Committee. Professionally, community-based organizations advancing regional including chairing the board of directors of the West he has been superintendent/director of the equity agendas in diverse metropolitan areas. He is Oak Lane Charter School. Matlock-Turner holds a BS Shawsheen Valley Technical School District since 1987. the lead researcher and author of Leadership for Policy degree in Education from Temple University. Lyons holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Change, a report that explores ways to increase Boston State College and has been active in several the number of leaders of color engaged in policy Lucille L. McEwen professional organizations. development and a member of the PolicyLink President and Chief Executive Officer, Harlem Equitable Development Toolkit team. He provides Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc. Sheila F. Maith strategic consultation to nonprofit and public agencies Lucille L. McEwen is president and CEO of Harlem Managing Director, Policy and Leadership that seek to boost civic engagement in planning and Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc. Development, Fannie Mae Foundation development processes. Marsh migrated to the west (HCCI), a not-for-profit organization that provides Sheila F. Maith, Esq., is managing director for Policy coast following undergraduate work in Architecture computer training for children and adults, career and Leadership Development at the Fannie Mae and Environmental Design at Yale University. He placement, family day care training, and after school Foundation. She oversees the foundation’s grantmaking studied city and regional planning at the University of tutorials. HCCI’s health and wellness services include designed to strengthen the environment for the California, Berkeley, completing his master’s degree in providing access to medical information and development of affordable homes. Maith also helps 1993. During that time, he sharpened his community affordable insurance, and providing scattered site AIDS the foundation provide information and resources to development, economic analysis, and organizing housing. HCCI owns or manages 1,700 units of advance issues of affordable housing, community skills working with several Bay Area organizations. In affordable housing. Prior to joining HCCI, McEwen was development, and economic development. Previously 1993, Marsh assumed the Neighborhood & Community general counsel and chief of staff of the Upper she served as senior counsel to Senator Edward M. Development Fellowship at The San Francisco Manhattan Empowerment Zone. She also served as Kennedy on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Foundation. While there, he initiated the first assistant commissioner at the NYC Department of Committee. She developed expertise on economic conversations among Bay Area religious leaders that Housing Preservation and Development. McEwen issues including high technology, biotechnology, evolved into a comprehensive community building currently serves on the Fannie Mae Advisory Board and microenterprise, entrepreneurship, local economic and advocacy strategy known as the FAITHS Initiative. New York City’s Neighborhood Investment Advisory development, and infrastructure projects. Prior to Highlights of FAITHS included forums with Panel. She is a director of the Greater Harlem Chamber serving on Senator Kennedy’s staff, Maith was director representatives from faith, philanthropic, nonprofit, of Commerce, the Citizens Housing and Planning

60 61 Council, and the International Downtown Association. diversion and recycling, school joint use projects, and worked in Wisconsin state government in the 1970’s, McEwen earned a JD from Brooklyn Law School, an housing. Mendez is also the principal advisor to including serving as state budget director. Milbourne MBA from Baruch Graduate School, and a BA in Assemblymember Cindy Montanez on Urban left government to become vice president and Psychology from City College of New York. Development and Environmental policy issues. economist at the Kohler Company, a leading Currently he staffs the Assemblymember on the manufacturer of plumbing products, engines, and Patrick J. McGuigan Budget Subcommittee on Natural Resources and generators, and one of the largest privately held Executive Director, The Providence Plan Environmental Protection, and the Legislative Latino corporations in the United States. He was responsible Patrick McGuigan has been the executive director of Caucus. Mendez received his bachelor’s degree in for corporate planning, budgeting, economic The Providence Plan (TPP) since January 1995. The Urban Planning and Environmental Analysis from forecasting, external affairs, and ran the real estate Providence Plan is a private nonprofit organization California State University at Northridge and a Master business. Milbourne has also been a volunteer for established in 1992 by the Providence mayor, Rhode of City Planning degree from the Massachusetts public service. In 1984-1985, he headed the Wisconsin Island governor, and key private and community Institute of Technology specializing in Environmental Strategic Development Commission, which prepared a interests and charged with the mission of developing Policy, Housing, Community, and Economic long term strategic plan for the state’s economic and overseeing a comprehensive strategic plan for the Development. Prior to attending MIT, Mendez worked future. Milbourne served on the faculty of the revitalization of the city. TPP convened and led a for Latino Issues Forum (a public policy and advocacy Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin, successful planning process in competition for a institute in San Francisco), the Los Angeles County Madison as an adjunct professor. For 23 years he federal Enterprise Community designation. In addition, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the City of taught a popular undergraduate course, Contemporary TPP has played a major role in the development of a Los Angeles Department of Neighborhood Economic Issues. number of key initiatives in the city, ranging from the Empowerment. He has spoken and written extensively Providence Youthbuild Collaborative to the on the intersections between Latino demographics, Julie Miles Woonasquatucket River Greenway project and Ready housing needs, environmental impact, and Director, New York City Campaign for to Learn Providence. Prior to this position, McGuigan development patterns. Mendez also serves on the Inclusionary Zoning spent more than ten years with senior management Alumni Council for the Department of Urban Studies Founded by ACORN and the Pratt Institute Center for responsibilities for neighborhood housing and economic and Planning at California State University, Northridge Community and Environmental Development, the development policies and programs for the City of and the MIT Program in Human Rights and Justice Campaign for Inclusionary Zoning is part of Housing Boston. In addition, he was the executive director of Alumni Advisory Group. Here & Now, a citywide coalition of more than 100 Boston Neighborhood Housing Services from 1983 affordable housing, labor, religious, and community to 1984 and was a senior member of the staff of Jerilyn López Mendoza groups. The campaign was formed to win a guarantee the Massachusetts Community Development Finance Policy Director, Los Angeles Office, Environmental of affordable housing in upzonings, as Mayor Michael Corporation from 1978 to 1983. McGuigan has a Defense Bloomberg and his administration have undertaken master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the Jerilyn López Mendoza is an attorney and policy the rezoning of dozens of neighborhoods in New York Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University director at the Environmental Justice Office of City. The Campaign was a lead group in winning and an undergraduate degree from Boston College. Environmental Defense in Los Angeles. Part of her significant affordable housing as part of the recent work focuses on using community benefits rezoning of the Westside of Manhattan and is now Freeman McKindra, Sr. agreements to amplify the voices of those negatively working to establish a citywide policy of inclusionary Community Liaison, Office of Community Based impacted by public and private developments. She zoning. Miles has an 18-year history of organizing and Public Health, College of Public Health, University of served as the chair of the LAX Coalition for Economic, advocacy on social justice and public interest issues. Arkansas for Medical Sciences Environmental, and Education Justice that recently Prior to her work with the campaign, Miles organized Freeman McKindra, Sr. graduated from the Conway finalized a community benefits agreement with the tenants to preserve affordable rents in buildings expiring County Training High School and Arkansas A,M. & N City of Los Angeles to offset impacts from the expansion from public subsidy programs and worked, for more College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where he received his of Los Angeles International Airport, estimated to be than a decade, with the Public Interest Research Groups undergraduate degree in Biology with a minor in worth $500 million. She also serves on the Steering (PIRGs), holding a variety of positions on a range of Chemistry. McKindra studied the Art of Teaching at Committee of the Figueroa Corridor Coalition for environmental, campaign finance reform, and social Howard University in Washington, DC, and Community Economic Justice and co-covenes the Alliance for a justice campaigns, including serving for five years as Development at Southern Illinois University in Livable Los Angeles, a group of advocates working to the executive director of a national clearinghouse and Carbondale, Illinois. Since 1969, he has been engaged secure more affordable housing, transportation and organizing center for college students, campus staff, Speakers in the practice and study of community and economic green space for the working poor in Los Angeles. and faculty on the issues of hunger and homelessness. development. Before joining the Office of Community Mendoza earned her bachelor’s degree in American Based Public Health as a community liaison, he spent Studies from Stanford University and her JD from the Janet Milkman fifteen years with the Winthrop Rockefeller foundation, UCLA School of Law. She has a longstanding President and Chief Executive Officer, last serving as a senior program officer. During that commitment to environmental justice and interned at 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania time he managed programs in economic development, the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment as Janet Milkman is president and CEO of 10,000 Friends leadership development, and community organizing. well as Rebuild Los Angeles while in law school. of Pennsylvania, a statewide nonprofit organization McKindra has more than thirty years of experience Immediately prior to joining Environmental Defense, dedicated to revitalizing cities and towns, conserving with government and private companies as a she worked in private practice as a commercial litigator. rural lands, and reducing sprawl. At 10,000 Friends of community and organizational development consultant. Pennsylvania since 1999, Janet has taken the lead on He has worked in Africa, Asia, and more than fifteen Robert H. Milbourne research and policy work focused on encouraging states in the United States, and serves on the board of President and Chief Executive Officer, redevelopment of Pennsylvania’s cities, boroughs, and directors of seven nonprofit and public organizations. The Columbus Partnership older suburbs. Before coming to Philadelphia, Robert Milbourne is the first president and CEO of the Milkman directed nonprofit organizations focused on Michael Mendez Columbus Partnership, a civic organization of top land use and energy issues and programs in New Lead Consultant to the Assembly Select Committee business, education, and community leaders formed Jersey and Minnesota. She also spent three years on Environmental Justice, California State Assembly in 2002 to improve the economic and cultural base of working for New York City government, at the Budget Michael Mendez is the lead consultant to the California Central Ohio. He came to Columbus after serving as office and then at the New York City Department of Assembly Select Committee on Environmental Justice. CEO of a similar group in Milwaukee for 17 years. He Environmental Protection. Milkman has a BA from As the lead consultant, he has developed legislation earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in Public relating to brownfields, environmental justice, urban economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Administration from Princeton University’s Woodrow landfills, pesticide use, public participation, waste and also attended the Harvard Business School. He Wilson School and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany.

60 61 Karen Moore health policy. Before joining NCHH in 2002, Morley was board chair of the National Congress of Community Executive Director, Miami-Dade County Task Force a senior associate with ICF Consulting in Washington, Economic Development, Good City (a Leadership on Urban Economic Revitalization DC where she advised federal clients on children’s Foundation), and Loretto Hospital Foundation, was Karen Moore is executive director of the Miami-Dade environmental health issues. Before joining ICF, Morley vice chair of the U.S. EPA’s Environmental Justice County Task Force on Urban Economic Revitalization worked with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Advisory Committee, and currently on the boards of (Urban Task Force). Through this community-centered Development (HUD) in a variety of posts, including the Call to Renewal, Christian Community Development organization, Moore has guided the review of Office of the Secretary and the Office of Healthy Homes Association, and the Woodstock Institute. government investments within targeted urban areas. and Lead Hazard Control where she worked on children’s During this time, the Urban Task Force has implemented health regulations, grant programs, and educational Phuonglan Nguyen a $40 million revolving loan fund for large-scale campaigns. She also served as a legislative fellow to Co-coordinator, Community Learning Network/ economic development projects, created a short-term U.S. Senator Jack Reed where she worked on lead Making Connections-Denver stability loan fund capitalized at $900,000, and poisoning prevention legislation. She holds a bachelor’s Phuonglan Nguyen serves as the co-coordinator of the directed over $300,000 towards the preservation of degree in environmental science and a master’s degree Community Learning Network (CLN), a group of historic sites within the TUA communities. Prior to this in public policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology. resident leaders in Making Connections-Denver (MC- position, Moore was chief of staff with Miami-Dade D), a ten-year community change initiative of the County. She served as co-author of the legislation that Dede Myers Annie E. Casey Foundation. The CLN collects and created the Task Force on Urban Economic Vice President and Community Affairs Officer, disseminates data and information about MC-D to Revitalization. In addition to her public sector work, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia drive its social change agenda. It sets baselines, Moore served in corporate law for close to a decade. Dede Myers is vice president and community affairs measures, performance targets, and outcomes in the She was director of governmental relations of Florida officer for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. local evaluation of MC-D. CLN also strengthens the international University, where her efforts resulted in She manages the Bank’s Community Affairs capacity of MC-D residents to be leaders in their obtaining $40 million in development projects and Department that assists financial institutions in neighborhoods. Nguyen also engages in policy approximately $415 million in special academic Delaware, southern New Jersey, and eastern research and advocacy to help deepen community programs. In addition to her direct responsibilities to Pennsylvania to understand community development understanding of the impact of social welfare policies the University, she served as point person for the state issues and strategies throughout the Third District. In on vulnerable populations. Nguyen receives her MSW university system on issues related to the sunshine 2002, the bank’s economic education function, from the University of Denver in 2005. She currently law, procurement, and minority enterprise policy including personal financial literacy efforts, was added serves on the board of directors of Metro Organizations development. Moore received her bachelors of arts to her responsibilities. Myers has more than 20 years for People, a partner organizing and advocacy degree from Spelman College and her JD from the experience in lending in low- and moderate-income organization of MC-D. She has also served as member New York University School of Law. communities. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve, she of the Mayoral Education and Children Transition Team, originated small multifamily loans for Quaker Capital. vice-president of the Sun Valley Coalition, a local Lance Morgan From 1989 to 1997, she managed the community organizing committee of MOP; and member of the Chief Executive Officer, Ho-Chunk, Inc. development lending effort in New Jersey for Social Justice Institute Grants Advisory Committee. Lance Morgan is a member of the Winnebago Tribe. He Midlantic Bank and its successor, PNC Bank. While at is also the CEO and one of the initial founders of Ho- Midlantic, annual community development loan Jeremy Nowak Chunk, Inc., the development corporation for the originations grew from $2 million to over $50 million President and Chief Executive Officer, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Ho-Chunk, Inc. was annually including single-family, construction, and The Reinvestment Fund started in 1994 to diversify the tribe’s business permanent real estate loans, equity financing, and Jeremy Nowak is the founding director of TRF, which interests away from gaming. Ho-Chunk, Inc. is now small business and commercial loans. This activity he joined in 1986 after serving in a variety of significantly larger than the tribe’s casino with resulted in an “outstanding” CRA rating from the Office community development and organizing positions. business interests ranging from home manufacturing, of the Comptroller of the Currency. Before joining Nowak also chairs the Board of Directors of Mastery retail, distribution, construction, hotels, apartments, Midlantic, Myers worked for Neighborhood Housing Charter High School. He previously served on the and Internet companies, including Indianz.com and Services of America and was the first executive director Consumer Advisory Board to The Federal Reserve Bank AllNative.com. Ho-Chunk, Inc. won the prestigious of Neighborhood Housing Services of Trenton. Myers and chaired the Board of Directors of the National Innovations in American Government Award in 2001. has a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning Community Capital Association, the industry’s trade In 2000, Ho-Chunk, Inc. won the Honoring from Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Arts from association. Selected in 1996 to receive The Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Douglass College at Rutgers University. Philadelphia Award, the city’s highest civic honor, Nations (Honoring Nations) Award, and in 1999 it was Nowak played a key role in the successful passage of named one of the twenty effective economic initiatives Mary Nelson the Community Development Financial Institutions for tribes. Prior to working for Ho-Chunk, Inc., Morgan President, Bethel New Life Fund, the first federal funding for organizations like worked as a lawyer in the Indian Law Department of Mary Nelson is president of Bethel New Life, a 25 TRF. He has served as a consultant to the Ford the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney. He has spoken at over year-old faith-based community development Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Annie 20 national and regional conferences on various tribal corporation on Chicago’s westside started by a local E. Casey Foundation, and advised Philadelphia Mayor economic development subjects. Morgan has a law church as a part of its community ministry. Bethel has John Street’s administration on its Neighborhood degree from Harvard University and business degree in developed almost 1,100 units of affordable Transformation Initiative. Outside the Philadelphia economics from the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln. housing—including new and rehabbed single family, area, he has provided assistance to a dozen development multifamily rental, and special needs housing units— finance institutions in the United States, China, Latin Rebecca Morley using sweat equity, and the adaptive re-use of a America, and Africa. Nowak has authored numerous Executive Director, National Center for closed down inner city hospital campus. Bethel’s reports and articles on community development and Healthy Housing participatory, community-based approach for a related issues. He is currently a member of the editorial Rebecca Morley is executive director of the National healthier, sustainable community, includes energy board of The Economic Development Quarterly and on Center for Healthy Housing, a national nonprofit efficiency, transit oriented, focused area development. the Advisory Committee to The Center on Urban and organization located in Columbia, Maryland. She is Bethel’s most innovative achievement is the adaptive Metropolitan Policy at The Brookings Institution. responsible for managing the center’s multidisciplinary reuse of a closed down, 9.2 acre 437-bed hospital into Nowak holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the staff of 12 as they carry out the scientific and policy an intergenerational community within the community. New School for Social Research, and was awarded an work to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010 Bethel has brought over $120 million into a credit- honorary doctorate from Villanova University. and advance the broader healthy homes movement. starved community. Nelson has a PhD in Urban Morley has a decade of experience in environmental Education, and six honorary doctorates. She is past

62 63 disparity and inefficient, sprawling land use. Orfield’s soon be taking a leave from City Life/Vida Urbana to Councilman Michael A. Nutter groundbreaking book, Metropolitics: A Regional manage the campaign of Gibran Rivera, who is City of Philadelphia Agenda for Community and Stability (Brookings running for the Boston City Council. Philadelphia City Councilman Michael A. Nutter Institution Press, 1997), redefined the field of regional represents the 4th Council District which includes studies. Orfield and his research have been featured on Rolf Pendall Wynnefield, Overbrook, Roxborough, Manayunk, East PBS’ The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC News’ Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Falls, and parts of , , Nightline, National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” Studies, Department of City and Regional Planning, and West Mount Airy. Strengthening the neighborhoods, and “Morning Edition,” US News and World Report, Cornell University promoting a fair tax policy, advocating for business- Business Week, The National Journal, Crain’s Chicago Rolf Pendall is an associate professor and director of friendly economic development programs, and Business, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. Graduate Studies in the Department of City and improving the quality of education are his key goals for Orfield served five terms in the Minnesota House of Regional Planning at Cornell University, where he insuring a vibrant Philadelphia. Michael Nutter was Representatives, and one term in the State Senate, teaches courses in land use planning, growth first elected in 1991 and is now serving his fourth, authoring a series of sweeping laws that brought management, environmental planning, affordable consecutive four-year term. Councilman Nutter serves as about metropolitan reform that created the nation’s housing, infrastructure planning, and quantitative chair of the Transportation & Public Utilities Committee most substantial regional government and reformed methods. His research on land-use controls concerns and vice-chair of the Commerce and Economic land use and fiscal equity laws in the Twin Cities area. why communities adopt them, how they vary across Development Committee. In addition to his legislative He is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings the United States, whether they work as intended, and duties, he was selected in 2001 by the Board of Judges Institution, and serves on the board of the Institution’s whether they have desirable or undesirable of the Court of Common Pleas to serve on the Board of Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy. Orfield has a consequences for affordable housing, ethnic and racial City Trusts. In February of 2003, Councilman Nutter was BA, summa cum laude, from the University of diversity, and the environment. In particular, he is elected to serve as the Chairman of the Pennsylvania Minnesota, conducted graduate work at Princeton interested in the prevalence and patterns of Convention Center Authority Board. He has held the University, and earned a law degree from the exclusionary zoning in U.S. cities. He also researches position of 52nd Ward Democratic Leader since 1990. University of Chicago. land use change, using geographic information He was born and raised in West Philadelphia. He systems (GIS) and qualitative methods to analyze the graduated from Saint Joseph’s Preparatory High School Manuel Pastor patterns of and reasons for transition from rural to and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, and urban land use. Other research interests include Business. Prior to his public service, he worked as an Co-director, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and tenant-based housing assistance and private property investment manager at Pryor, Counts & Co., Inc., Community, University of California, Santa Cruz rights. Pendall holds a PhD in City and Regional specializing in municipal finance. Dr. Manuel Pastor is professor of Latin American and Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, Latino Studies and co-director of the Center for Justice, an MS in Community and Regional Planning and an Peter J. O’Connor Tolerance, and Community at the University of MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Executive Director, Fair Share Housing Center and California, Santa Cruz. His research on U.S. urban issues Texas at Austin, and a BA in sociology from Kenyon Fair Share Housing Development has been published in such journals as Economic College in Ohio. Pendall is a member of the American Peter J. O’Connor founded and still leads both a public Development Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Urban Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). interest law office that enforces and protects the Affairs Review, and Urban Geography, and has Mount Laurel doctrine and a nonprofit corporation generally focused on the labor market and social Peter H. Pennekamp that develops and manages affordable housing conditions facing low-income urban communities. Dr. Executive Director, Humboldt Area Foundation developments in Camden, New Jersey, and its suburbs. Pastor’s most recent book, co-authored with Angela Peter H. Pennekamp, currently on a one-year sabbatical, O’Connor, a former Legal Services attorney, has Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh, is entitled has been executive director of the Humboldt Area represented the plaintiffs in the seminal Mount Laurel Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Foundation since 1993. Prior positions include vice- litigation since 1971, when that exclusionary zoning Dimensions on Race in America (W.W. Norton, 2002). president of National Public Radio and program director case was filed. He continues to bring suits against the He co-authored with Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby, and for the National Endowment for the Arts, both in State of New Jersey and its municipalities for their Marta Lopez-Garza Regions That Work: How Cities and Washington, DC. Pennekamp currently serves on the failure to promote racial and economic integration in Suburbs Can Grow Together (University of Minnesota board of directors of The California Endowment, one of housing. Simultaneously, he is developing housing Press, 2000), a book that has become a reference for America’s largest private foundations, where he has been affordable to very-low income families in job-rich those seeking to better link community and regional chair of the Program Committee for the past three Speakers communities with thriving school systems. O’Connor development. Along with Jennifer Wolch and Peter years. He also serves on the board of the Coalition of and FSHD have developed or now have in the pipeline Dreier, he recently edited an important collection of Community Foundations for Youth and as co-chair of over 1,100 units of affordable housing. Most recently, essays entitled Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the board of Internews Network, the largest global O’Connor’s work has focused on advocating for and the Making of Southern California (University of nonprofit media organization. He is a founding constructing long-awaited supportive affordable Minnesota Press, 2004). Dr. Pastor is currently working member of the League of California Community housing for the full spectrum of lower-income families on issues of environmental justice and regional equity, Foundations and past trustee and president of the and seniors in Mount Laurel, Cherry Hill, and Woolwich as well as on race and the digital divide, Latinos in a Board of Grantmakers in the Arts. During the last Townships. In Mount Laurel, FSHD recently completed changing California, and the impacts of globalization several years, Pennekamp has committed considerable Ethel R. Lawrence Homes, a 140-unit family rental on low-income communities. time to regional and national rural issues, serving as development that is named in honor of the lead chair of the Neighborhood Funders Group Rural individual plaintiff in the Mount Laurel litigation and Mark Pedulla Funders Fall Forum in 2004, working with the Aspen that is affordable to households earning as low as 10- Tenant Organizer, City Life/Vida Urbana Institute Community Strategies Group, and moderating percent of median income. Mark Pedulla has been working with City Life/Vida and/or serving on a number of panels and advisory Urbana as a tenant organizer for over four years. Prior groups focused on rural policy. He is proud to be a Myron Orfield to his work with City Life/Vida Urbana, Pedulla studied member of the initiating team of Redwood Coast Rural Director, Institute on Race and Poverty, literature and literary theory at Boston College. He Action, a regional community-based group addressing University of Minnesota Law School worked as a student organizer with the anti-corporate critical areas of concern in rural Northwestern Myron Orfield directs the Institute on Race and Poverty globalization movement and with the movement to California. at the University of Minnesota Law School. As close the School of the Americas. Pedulla has also president of Minneapolis-based Ameregis Corporation, worked and studied with social movement leaders in Orfield has also produced more than 60 studies of Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador, where he major metropolitan areas which detail regional received much of his organizing training. Pedulla will

62 63 Unfinished Business Campaign in 2003. This campaign Aurie A. Pennick Kathryn L. S. Pettit involved organizing community and political support Executive Director, Field Foundation of Illinois Deputy Director, National Neighborhood Indicators to fight for economic justice and equality for health Aurie A. Pennick, executive director of the Field Partnership, Urban Institute care workers in Baltimore City. Furthermore, Price has Foundation of Illinois, has more than thirty-five years Kathryn L. S. Pettit is a research associate in the worked for Delegate Clarence Davis as a legislative in the public and nonprofit sector. Prior to returning to Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center research assistant in the Maryland General Assembly. philanthropy, she was in private practice as an attorney at the Urban Institute; her work focuses on measures She also worked for Senator Barbara Hoffman as the and consultant to several nonprofit organizations. of neighborhood change and the role of place in social campaign field director. Price has a master’s degree From 1992 to 2002, Pennick was the president and outcomes. She serves as deputy director of the National from the University of Baltimore in Negotiation and chief executive officer of the Leadership Council for Neighborhood Indicators Partnership and co-leads the Conflict Management. Her undergraduate degree is in Metropolitan Open Communities, the nation’s oldest institute’s work on providing database and analytic Social Science from Coppin State University. fair housing organization. From 1987 to 1992, she was content for DataPlace, a national web-based resource the managing attorney, administration for the Chicago for small-area housing and community development Melvin R. Primas Transit Authority, Legal Services Branch. Prior to that, indicators. She is currently contributing to several Chief Operating Officer, City of Camden, New Jersey Pennick worked at the John D. and Catherine T. research projects, including an annual study of the Melvin R. “Randy” Primas, Jr., has over 25 years of MacArthur Foundation as the assistant director for Washington, DC, area housing market and the next experience in the public and private sectors. His Special Grants, where she designed and implemented paper in the Neighborhood Change in Urban America experience is accentuated by service at the highest the Fund for Neighborhood Initiatives, a multi-million series on changes in areas of concentrated poverty. executive positions in state and municipal government dollar grant program for small and emerging holding office as the mayor of Camden for ten years, community organizations. Pennick began her career in john a. powell commissioner of the New Jersey Department of philanthropy at the Chicago Community Trust and has Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Community Affairs for three years, managing director lead several small nonprofit organizations, including Race and Ethnicity, and Professor, Moritz College of in Public Finance with Commerce Capital Markets for the Chicago Abused Women Coalition, which opened Law, Ohio State University ten years, and currently chief operating officer for the the city’s first shelter run exclusively for battered Professor john a. powell is an internationally City of Camden. Primas taught courses on Public Sector women and Citizens Alert, a police watchdog recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil Management at the University of Pennsylvania, Fels organization. Currently, she serves on the board of liberties, and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty, Center of Government and Rutgers University. He holds trustees of the Field Museum of Chicago and the and the law. He is the executive director of the Kirwan a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio from Howard University, Washington, DC. She is also a member of the Commercial Club of State University. He also holds the Williams Chair in Chicago, the Economic Club of Chicago, and The Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Richard Raya Chicago Network. Law. He has written extensively on a number of issues Senior Associate, PolicyLink including racial justice and regionalism, concentrated Richard Raya staffs PolicyLink projects relating to Leda M. Perez poverty and urban sprawl, the link between housing equity in public investment, and leads the equity in Director, Community Voices Miami, Collins Center and school segregation, opportunity-based housing, school construction project. Prior to joining PolicyLink, for Public Policy gentrification, disparities in the criminal justice Raya was the Alameda County administrator’s analyst Leda M. Perez is director of Community Voices Miami system, voting rights, affirmative action in the United for the $473 million County Health Care Services Agency, at the Collins Center for Public Policy. As leader of this States, South Africa and Brazil, and racial and ethnic focusing on agency finance, contract management, program, Perez and her team work with providers of identity and the current demographic shift. Previously, and human resources. Raya was also responsible for health and social services, community-based Professor powell founded and directed the Institute on the development of the Children’s Services Budget, organizations, and county and state leaders to Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. He which linked county funding to program results and promote policies and programs that will make Miami- has worked and lived in Africa, where he was a population-level indicators. Dade’s health care system more efficient and consultant to the governments of Mozambique and responsive to consumer needs. Community Voices: South Africa. He has also lived and worked in India and Jason Reece Health Care for the Underserved is a national initiative done work in South America and Europe. He is one of Research Associate, Kirwan Institute for the Study that was launched by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in the co-founders of Poverty & Race Research Action of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University 1998 to improve access to healthcare for the uninsured Council and serves on the board of several national Jason Reece directs the Kirwan Institute’s GIS and and underserved. With the project’s headquarters organizations. Professor powell has taught at Columbia Demographic Analysis division. Reece has been involved based at the National Center for Primary Care at the University School of Law, Harvard Law School, with mapping and GIS technology for the past decade. Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, University of Miami School of Law, American Prior to working for the Kirwan Institute, he worked in project leaders across the country and in Miami are University, the University of San Francisco School of GIS, urban planning and community development for working to ensure progressive policy changes in men’s Law, and the University of Minnesota Law. Ohio State University Extension as well as city, regional health, oral health, case management, and behavioral and state government agencies. He has a master’s health as well as renewed attention and resources for Nicole Price degree in City and Regional Planning from Ohio State community health workers. Perez earned a PhD in Community and Political Organizer, SEIU District University and BA degrees in Geography and Urban International Studies with specializations in 1199E-DC Planning from Miami University. Reece was professionally Interamerican Affairs and Development from the Nicole Price is the Community and Political Organizer certified by the American Institute of Planners in 2003. University of Miami. She has worked as executive for the Service Employees International Union District coordinator for Global Education Associates, adjunct 1199E-DC. The local represents and organizes Neal Richman professor at Florida International University, and healthcare workers across Maryland and the District Associate Director, UCLA Advanced Policy Institute research assistant at the North-South Center. She has of Columbia. Price’s work has centered on advancing Neal Richman has twenty years of experience in written and has presented on community-driven issues to improve the lives and working conditions affordable housing management and development, solutions for health care access, social and economic of those workers. Many of these workers are paid contributing to the rehabilitation/construction of more determinants of the public’s health, and is currently extremely low wages with no health insurance and than one thousand dwelling units in Southern directing a forthcoming paper on Latino and other benefits. She has been working with SEIU for California. Most of these projects were designed as Caribbean people’s health and wellness challenges 2 years. During that time, she has been involved scattered-site, infill developments with the aim of and opportunities in the United States. in voter registration campaigns, increasing the local’s strengthening the fabric of distressed neighborhoods. political action fund, and lobbied on behalf of the His development work has relied on expanding union members. Price was an integral part of the resident-controlled housing and broadening

64 65 opportunities for ownership by lower-income Regionalism. Rivera has challenged some of the most most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the households. His development research clients have entrenched and powerful institutions in Northwest 21st century. included organizations in Europe, Africa, and the Indiana around transit access, civil rights, and Kalima Rose former . Currently, as the associate environmental injustice against the poor and Associate Director, PolicyLink director of UCLA Advanced Policy Institute, he has communities of color. She received national recognition Kalima Rose, associate director at PolicyLink, is the been exploring the use of new information and for using not only federal transportation policy to leader of the PolicyLink affordable housing team. She communication technologies to support grassroots pressure the U.S. Department of Transportation, but for directs local and statewide housing initiatives, helping community development activities. Funding for this applying civil rights and environmental justice policy communities advance policies that finance affordable technology outreach and training program is currently to impact decisions against the region’s metropolitan housing, change land use policy to better support provided by Fannie Mae Foundation, Microsoft planning organization. Rivera is currently organizing mixed-income housing development, advance fair Foundation, and the National Telecommunications MAC West leadership on Chicago’s West Side to housing practices, and prevent displacement due to Information Agency. The Neighborhood Knowledge address health disparities at the Advocate Health Care rising land values. Rose leads the PolicyLink Equitable Los Angeles (NKLA) internet site, which provides hospital system, the largest health care provider in Development Toolkit team, an online resource on access to a searchable database that for the first time Chicago. Rivera calls on people of faith to “Walk the social equity practices for housing, land use, asset anywhere provides information on property tax Talk and Leave No Community Behind.” building, and financing of equitable development. She delinquencies, code violations, and other city and is principal author of several PolicyLink reports, the country data, can be accessed at http://nkla.sppsr. Arlene Rodriguez most recent including: Expanding Housing Opportunity ucla.edu. He received a doctoral degree for his cross- Program Officer for the Environment, in Washington, DC: The Case for Inclusionary Zoning; national research on housing provision from the The San Francisco Foundation Increasing Housing Opportunity in New York City: The Department of Development and Planning at the Arlene Rodriguez is the program officer for the Case for Inclusionary Zoning; and Expanding Opportunity: University of Aalborg in Denmark where he sometimes Environment and leads The San Francisco Foundation New Resources to Meet California’s Housing Needs. Rose teaches a module in planning theory. He received his in addressing urban and natural environmental issues, has worked with rural indigenous communities on master’s degree in Urban Planning from UCLA in 1982. regional approaches to equitable growth and economic development and cultural continuity for development, and environmental health and justice over a decade. She is a community leader in the Bay Rebecca Riley for the San Francisco Bay Area. Rodriguez has Area on educational equity issues, and worked for over Consultant, Community and Resource Development extensive experience and strong leadership in the a decade in social change philanthropy, supporting Unit, The Ford Foundation environmental field. She served as senior program economic development, community building, and Rebecca Riley spent most of her professional career as officer for the Environment at the Gordon and Betty racial inclusion initiatives. a program director and vice president of the John D. Moore Foundation, and previously was the director of and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where she community programs and the Crissy Field Center at the Jaimie Ross helped design and manage grantmaking portfolios Golden Gate National Parks Association. Before joining Affordable Housing Director, 1000 Friends of Florida focused on the fields of community and economic the project team to restore Crissy Field, a wetland and Jaimie Ross is the affordable housing director at 1000 development, urban and regional policy, and arts and national park site at Golden Gate National Parks, she Friends of Florida, a statewide nonprofit growth culture. She oversaw the Foundation’s active civic was the urban program director at The Trust for Public management organization. Prior to joining 1000 engagement in the life of Chicago and of Palm Beach Land leading their western region’s Green Cities Friends of Florida in 1991, Ross was a land use and County, Florida, the two home communities of the Initiative. She currently serves as a City and County of real property lawyer in private practice with an MacArthur Foundation. She participated in numerous San Francisco Commissioner on the Environment, as Orlando law firm, representing for profit and nonprofit boards and commissions related to the foundation’s the president of the board of trustees for the San developers and financial institutions. During her areas of interest including panels for the National Francisco Education Fund, and as board vice-chair for tenure at 1000 Friends, Ross initiated the broad-based Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, the Advisory the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable coalition that successfully advocated passage of a Committee of LISC/Chicago, and the founding board of Communities. Rodriguez received her first degree comprehensive housing bill, including a dedicated The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois and revenue source for affordable housing in Florida and Communities. Riley was an active trustee for then later returned to school for a BS in Landscape she continues to facilitate that coalition. Her work organizations closely aligned with personal interests Horticulture and master’s in Landscape Architecture includes all forms of legislative and administrative including: WBEZ/FM, the NPR affiliate in Chicago; and from North Carolina State University. advocacy and education related to the planning and the Young Women’s Leadership Academy of Chicago, financing of affordable housing in Florida, such as Speakers a Charter high school for low-income girls founded in Joel Rogers inclusionary zoning and community land trusts. She is 1999. Currently Riley is a trustee of the Rails-to-Trails Professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology, the author of Creating Inclusive Communities in Florida: Conservancy where she co-chairs the board and Founder and Director, Center on Wisconsin A Guidebook for Local Elected Officials and Staff on development committee. Riley is currently consulting Strategy, University of Wisconsin, Madison Avoiding and Overcoming the NIMBY Syndrome, which with the Community and Resource Development Unit Joel Rogers is professor of law, political science, and has received much national attention. Ross serves on of the Ford Foundation on metropolitan policy issues. sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the National Low Income Housing Coalition NIMBY founder and director of its Center on Wisconsin Strategy Report Advisory Committee, and the Wachovia Reverend Cheryl Rivera (COWS). Rogers has written widely on democratic National Community Development Advisory Board. Lead Organizer, Metropolitan Alliance of theory, American politics, and comparative public She is the president of the Florida Housing Coalition Congregations West, and Founder and Director, policy. His books include On Democracy, Right Turn, and was recently named a James A. Johnson Gamaliel African American Leadership Commission Rules of the Game, Associations and Democracy, Metro Community Fellow by the Fannie Mae Foundation. Reverend Cheryl Rivera is the lead organizer of Futures, America’s Forgotten Majority, and Working Metropolitan Alliance of Congregations West in Chicago, Capital. Rogers is credited with originating the “high Robert K. Ross Illinois affiliated with regional MAC and Gamaliel road” theory and branding of competitiveness President and Chief Executive Officer, Foundation U.S. and South Africa. She is also co- strategies that are both highly profitable and friendly The California Endowment founder and director of the Gamaliel African American to workers, the environment, and democratic Robert K. Ross, M.D., is president and chief executive Leadership Commission. She serves as an associate government. He is most recently a founder of the officer for The California Endowment, a health pastor at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, an 800- Apollo Alliance, a national project aimed at achieving foundation established in 1996 to address the health member urban congregation in East Chicago, Indiana. sustainable U.S. energy independence within a needs of Californians. Prior to his appointment in Rivera has been honored by the decade. He is a contributing editor of The Nation and September 2000, Dr. Ross served as director of the with the prestigious Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Boston Review and a MacArthur Foundation fellow. Health and Human Services Agency for the County of Excellence in Activism in the Field of Race and Newsweek identified him as one of the 100 Americans San Diego from 1993 to 2000. Dr. Ross has an

64 65 extensive background as a clinician and public health (1962). From 1963 to 1968, he was a full-time civil Dr. Santomero is on the board of directors of the administrator. His service includes: commissioner, rights and anti-poverty worker with the Washington Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health; medical Urban League. He then entered the U.S. Department of board of the Mann Center for the Performing Arts. He director for LINK School-Based Clinic Program, Labor, serving as the Manpower Administration’s also serves on the Governor’s Task Force for Working Camden, New Jersey; instructor of clinical medicine, legislative and program development director. Families and is a member of the National Smart Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and faculty Growth Council. In keeping with his commitment to member at San Diego State University’s School of Hussein Samatar education and research, Dr. Santomero serves on Public Health. Dr. Ross has been actively involved in Executive Director, African Development Center Drexel University’s Board of Trustees as well as its community and professional activities at both the local Hussein Samatar holds an MBA in Financial LeBow Business School Advisory Board. and national level. He served as a member of the Management Services from University of St.Thomas in National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and on the St. Paul, MN. Before starting the African Development Ellen Schneider boards of the National Marrow Donor Program, San Center (ADC) in March 2003, he worked for eight years Founder and Executive Director, Active Voice Diego United Way, and Jackie Robinson YMCA. He is a for Wells Fargo Business Banking Division, where he Ellen Schneider is founder and executive director of diplomate of the American Academy of Pediatrics, managed a commercial and real estate portfolio of Active Voice, a team of strategic communication served on the President’s Summit for America’s Future, over $15 million for Wells Fargo Bank of Minnesota specialists that puts socially relevant film to work for and as chairman of the national Boost for Kids and was the top SBA loan producer for Wells Fargo in personal and institutional change in communities, Initiative. Dr. Ross received his undergraduate, master’s 2002. Samatar is currently the executive director of workplaces, and campuses across America. Schneider in Public Administration and medical degrees from the African Development Center in Minnesota, responsible was formerly executive producer of POV, PBS’ longest University of Pennsylvania. for program development, fundraising, financial running independent nonfiction film series. She management, staff supervision, strategic planning, created High Impact Television®, a technique for Victor Rubin and board development. Samatar recently completed creating links between documentaries, individuals, Director of Research, PolicyLink a one-year policy fellowship at the Humphrey Institute grassroots organizations, and other media; and the Victor Rubin is the director of Research for PolicyLink. Policy Forum. He is the winner of The Business Television Race Initiative, recognized as a “promising A member of the senior management team, he Journal’s 2002, Forty members Under 40, a recognition practice” by President Clinton’s Initiative on Race. She coordinates knowledge-building activities in all areas of individuals under the age of 40 for their professional was also the creator and executive producer of the pilot of the organization’s work. Among his current projects achievements and community involvement in the series, Right Here, Right Now, PBS’ first laboratory for are a scan of voter mobilization strategies by grassroots state of Minnesota. He serves on the board of Home small format video diaries. When the series premiered, groups, a guidebook of methods for evaluating Ownership Center and he is on the advisory committee Entertainment Weekly wrote, “Finally, a blueprint for equitable development, and a report framing issues of of the Payne-Lake Community Partnership. what reality television should be all about.” She has equity in metropolitan infrastructure policy. He joined lectured on the intersection of media and civic PolicyLink in 2000 after serving as director of the U.S. Michael Sarbanes engagement at the Neiman Foundation at Harvard Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Executive Director, Citizens Planning and Housing University, the Sundance Film Festival, Columbia Office of University Partnerships, where he was Association University, the New School for Social Research, the responsible for the development of new programs and Michael Sarbanes is executive director of Citizens National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and publications and the supervision of grants to Planning and Housing Association in Baltimore, a six- other institutions. Schneider was a member of the institutions of higher education. Rubin served for decade old organization devoted to giving citizens and start-up team for the Independent Television Service 13 years as director of Research and Community communities a voice in regional planning and policy. and has served on panels and juries ranging from the Programs of the University-Oakland Metropolitan He was most recently deputy chief of staff to Sundance Film Festival to the RioCine Festival in Brazil. Forum, a partnership based at the University of Maryland’s Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, California, Berkeley. He was also a principal analyst and was previously executive director of the Governor’s Paul Scully with Berkeley Planning Associates, providing policy Office of Crime Control and Prevention, where he Executive Director, New Jersey Regional Coalition research and program evaluation for government helped to spearhead a statewide effort to support Paul Scully is the founding executive director of the agencies in child care, youth development, and comprehensive anti-crime strategies in high-crime New Jersey Regional Coalition, a grassroots coalition of employment training. Rubin has a PhD and an MCP communities. He is a graduate of Princeton University, churches and civic organizations formed to address from the Department of City and Regional Planning, Oxford University and the New York University School regional disparities and the decline of older cities and University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of of Law. suburbs. He has close to 20 years experience organizing numerous journal articles for scholars and with labor unions, community organizations, and practitioners and co-author of two books on education Anthony M. Santomero religious institutions. Scully was a member of the and youth policy. President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia senior staff of the Gamaliel Foundation, where he Anthony M. Santomero was appointed the ninth directed organizing activities in Indiana and later David Rusk president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia throughout the Northeast. He pioneered the creation Urban Policy Consultant in 2000. Dr. Santomero received an AB in economics of city/suburban alliances that have the capacity to David Rusk is an independent consultant on urban and from Fordham University, a PhD in economics from address and rectify regional decline. He helped suburban policy, and the author of Inside Game/ Brown University, and honorary doctorates from the establish successful regional organizations in Northwest Outside Game. Since 1993, he has spoken and consulted Stockholm School of Economics and the University of Indiana, New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island, and the in over 120 US communities. Abroad, Rusk has lectured Rome. Before becoming president of the Philadelphia Baltimore region. He also helped establish an on urban problems in England; Berlin, Stuttgart, and Fed, Dr. Santomero was the Richard K. Mellon organization in South Africa. His successful campaigns Frankfurt, Germany; and in Toronto and Victoria, Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s in Northwest Indiana were featured in the book Inside Canada. He is a former federal official, New Mexico Wharton School. During his 30-year tenure at Game/Outside Game by David Rusk, the political legislator (1975-1977) and mayor of Albuquerque Wharton, he held a number of academic and analyst and former mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico. (1977-1981). In 1997, he served as an advisor to the managerial positions including deputy dean of the government of South Africa on metropolitan school, vice dean of the graduate division, associate Rinku Sen governance in Johannesburg, Capetown, and Durban. director of the doctoral program, and co-chair of the Publisher, ColorLines Magazine, and During 2000 he was a visiting professor at the finance department. He has written more than 100 Communications Director, Applied Research Center University of Amsterdam and Delft Technical University articles, books, and monographs on financial sector Rinku Sen, the publisher of ColorLines magazine and in The Netherlands. Rusk attended the University of regulation and economic performance. His two most communications director of the Applied Research California, Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa as the recent books are Financial Markets, Instruments, and Center (ARC), has a rich history of organizing, writing, outstanding undergraduate student in Economics Institutions and Challenges for Modern Central Banking. and lecturing on issues of race, gender, and activism.

66 67 She received a BA in Women’s Studies from Brown She is a former member of the National Advisory and advocacy agenda. For the past two years she has University in 1988 and is currently pursuing an MA in Environmental Health Sciences Council of the National been coordinating a broad-based coalition advocacy Journalism at Columbia University. She has written for Institutes of Health and a member of the Environmental effort to establish a housing trust fund in Philadelphia. a wide variety of publications including Third Force, Justice Advisory Committee to the New York State Before her work at PACDC, she worked as a grass- AlterNet, Race, Poverty & the Environment, Amerasia Department of Environmental Conservation. WE ACT roots organizer with economic justice and labor Journal, and ColorLines. She edited We are the Ones We is a nationally recognized organization in the field of organizations. She has more than eight years of Are Waiting For: Women of Color Organizing for community-based participatory research, in successful advocacy and organizing experience. Transformation; her latest book, Stir It Up: Lessons in partnership with the Mailman School of Public Health Community Organizing, a guide for community at Columbia University. Shepard is a recipient of the Conan Smith organizations of all orientations, was released in the 10th Annual Heinz Award for the Environment, and the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, fall of 2003. From 1988-2000, she was on the staff of Dean’s Distinguished Service Award from the Columbia 10th District, and Executive Director, the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), a University Mailman School of Public Health. Michigan Suburbs Alliance national network of organizations of color. She is a Conan Smith has served as executive director at the board member of the Center for Third World Douglas Shoemaker Michigan Suburbs Alliance since August 2004. His Organizing, Speak Out Speakers and Artists, and is on Deputy Director, Non-Profit Housing Association of passion for cities stems from a life and career the advisory board of the Philanthropic Initiative for Northern California supporting innovative policies for urban development Racial Equity. She was recognized by Ms. Magazine as Doug Shoemaker joined the Non-Profit Housing and region collaboration strategies. Prior to joining one of 21 feminists to watch in the twenty-first Association of Northern California (NPH) in January of MSA, Smith worked with the Michigan Environmental century in 1996, and the same year she received the 2001 to head policy strategy and membership Council on land use issues. As their Land Programs Ms. Foundation for Women’s Gloria Steinem Women of programs. The membership of NPH, currently over 600, director he helped build cohesive support in the Vision award. She was a Gerbode Fellow in 1999 and draws together the main public, private, and nonprofit environmental community for Smart Growth policies was selected as a 2004 Charles H. Revson Fellow on partners active in the creation and support of among the state’s environmental organizations and the Future of the City of New York. affordable housing for low-income people in Northern their constituents. He has served as the chair of Ann California. Shoemaker is a co-author of Inclusionary Arbor’s “Cool Cities” Task Force, a program established Miriam Shark Housing in California: 30 Years of Innovation, a study by Governor Granholm to attract and retain 22-35 year Senior Associate, The Annie E. Casey Foundation issued jointly by NPH and the California Coalition for olds to the area. In 2004 Conan was elected to the Miriam Shark is a senior associate at the Annie E. Rural Housing. Prior to NPH, Shoemaker was a project Washtenaw County Commission representing the City Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy dedicated to manager and communications director at Mission of Ann Arbor. His work has been integral in creating helping build better futures for disadvantaged children Housing Development Corporation in San Francisco. He conservation subdivision design standards for local in the United States. She was one of the architects of is also a visiting lecturer on housing policy at the governments, instituting an asset management program the foundation’s Neighborhood Transformation/Family Department of City Regional Planning at the University within the Michigan Department of Transportation, Development (NT/FD) agenda. NT/FD is the of California at Berkeley. advancing regional governance opportunities, and centerpiece of the foundation’s work and represents its securing more than $55 million in increased funding commitment to strengthening the connections Reverend Andre L. Shumake, Sr. for mass transit in the state. Smith attended the families in tough neighborhoods have to the resources, President, Richmond Improvement Association University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he earned relationships, and help they need to succeed in raising Rev. Shumake is an ordained Baptist minister and is a BA in Creative Writing and Literature. Following their kids. Subsequently, Shark developed a rural the president of the Richmond Improvement Association graduation he worked as a communications specialist agenda that complements this work and she has on- (a faith-based organization), and president of the Iron for the Michigan House Democratic Caucus where he going responsibility for work with a variety of national Triangle Neighborhood Council, located within the city served on the speechwriting team for the speaker of civic, philanthropic, and service delivery organizations of Richmond, California. He formerly served as the the Michigan House of Representatives. on awards programs, executive education, and other coordinator of the North Richmond Community Career activities designed to promote family-strengthening Resource Center, located within the North Richmond Loel S. Solomon and family economic success strategies. Prior to Missionary Baptist Church, for three years. In March of National Director of Community Health Initiatives joining the foundation, she was a director of the 2004, Rev. Shumake was selected as a recipient of the and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission. Prior to that, 2004 Koshland Civic Unity Award for his contributions Loel Solomon joined Kaiser Permanente’s Community Shark served as the director of a community-based to the Iron Triangle neighborhood of Richmond, Benefit Program in 2003 as the national director of Speakers mental health center. Shark holds an AB degree from California. The Koshland Committee of The San Francisco Community Health Initiatives and Evaluation. In that Washington University, a PhD in Clinical Child Foundation seeks to promote civic unity by building position, Dr. Solomon is responsible for the design, Psychology from St. Louis University, and an MPA from mutual respect among diverse elements of the implementation, and evaluation of a national effort to Harvard University. community and encouraging collaboration in addressing improve population-level health outcomes in Kaiser neighborhood problems. The Koshland awards are Permanente communities through multisectoral, Peggy Shepard given annually to recognize outstanding Bay Area place-based efforts focusing on environmental and Executive Director and Co-founder, West Harlem community leaders who are not only risk-takers but policy change. Prior to coming to Kaiser Permanente, Environmental Action, Inc. also social innovators working to build healthy and Dr. Solomon served as deputy director of the California Peggy Shepard is executive director and co-founder of productive neighborhoods. The Richmond Improvement Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT). Association, in partnership with other organized groups (OSHPD) for Healthcare Quality and Analysis, where Founded in 1988, WE ACT was New York’s first and networks, are committed to the establishment he oversaw the state’s hospital outcomes reporting environmental justice organization created to build and support of an Equitable Development Zone to program, analyses of racial and ethnic health disparities, community power to improve environmental health, create a vibrant, mixed-income community with a and dissemination of healthcare data to researchers protection, and policy in communities of color. A high quality of life for all residents. and members of the public. As a senior manager at former democratic district leader, she represented the Lewin Group, he helped design and facilitate West Harlem from 1985 to 1993, and served as Sue Sierra community health initiatives sponsored by United president of the National Women’s Political Caucus- Policy Coordinator, Philadelphia Association of Auto Workers and the automobile industry in several Manhattan from 1993 to 1997. Shepard served from Community Development Corporations midwestern cities, and conducted assessments of local 2001 to 2003 as the first female chair of the National Sue Sierra is the policy coordinator for the Philadelphia safety net systems. Dr. Solomon’s policy experience Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) to Association of Community Development Corporations includes service on Senator Edward Kennedy’s health the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and is co- (PACDC). In that position, she oversees the day-to-day staff and President Bill Clinton’s Task Force on National chair of the Northeast Environmental Justice Network. work of developing and implementing PACDC’s policy Healthcare Reform. He received his PhD in Health

66 67 Policy from Harvard University and a Master of Public L. Benjamin Starrett Michael A. Stoll Policy at University of California, Berkeley. He is the Executive Director, Funders’ Network for Smart Associate Professor of Public Policy, author of several journal articles and a book chapter. Growth and Livable Communities School of Public Affairs, and Associate Director, Ben Starrett is the founding director of the Funders’ Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, Scot T. Spencer Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, University of California, Los Angeles Senior Associate and Manager of Baltimore created in late 1999 to expand funders’ abilities to Michael A. Stoll is an associate professor of Public Relations, The Annie E. Casey Foundation support organizations working to build more livable Policy in the School of Public Affairs, and associate Scot Spencer is senior associate and manager of communities through smarter growth policies and director of the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, at Baltimore Relations for the Annie E. Casey Foundation practices. The Funders’ Network provides member the University of California, Los Angeles. He received in Baltimore. Recently, the foundation’s hometown services, publishes on relevant topics, and manages an his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology work has largely focused on a scalar revitalization active website to provide foundations with in Urban Planning and a BS in Political Economy from effort on the city’s east side that will include the information and tools on growth and development the University of California, Berkeley. He also served as relocation of nearly 800 lower-income households in issues. The network also implements projects to help a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in an historic working class neighborhood. Spencer’s strengthen philanthropy, expand philanthropic New York City. His main research interests include the previous experience includes: transportation specialist interest, and build the field of advocates for better study of urban poverty and inequality, specifically the for Environmental Defense; deputy director for Historic decision-making to create more livable communities. interplay of labor markets, race/ethnicity, geography, East Baltimore Community Action Coalition; and Network projects currently include communications, and workforce development. He has written extensively several years of work in private architectural practice, regional and neighborhood equity, transportation, on the labor demand for welfare recipients and the community development, and university relations in community foundation leadership, real estate finance, barriers to work they face in low-skill labor markets in upstate New York. His volunteer activities includes green buildings, healthy communities, and housing. response to questions about their employability under chair of the Maryland State Commission on Starrett came to the Funders’ Network following a federal welfare reform legislation. He recently Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities; career in public service. After working for city completed a major monograph, entitled African board membership with the Neighborhood Design government and the Florida Legislature, Starrett joined Americans and the Color Line, documenting the degree Center, the Mount Vernon Cultural District, Association the Florida Department of Community Affairs— of African American social and economic progress over of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, Center Stage; and chair Florida’s state land planning agency—and served as the past two decades as part of the Russell Sage of the Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative. Beyond its chief planning officer from 1989 to 1999. After Foundation’s and Population Reference Bureaus’ Baltimore, Spencer serves on the boards of the leaving state government, he joined the Collins Center Census 2000 project on the American People. Dr. Stoll Association for Community Design, Smart Growth for Public Policy. He also co-founded the Growth is working on major research projects that examine America, and the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth Partnership, an initiative designed to foster positive the labor market consequences of mass incarceration and Livable Communities. He holds a Bachelor in regional and neighborhood change in South Florida to in the United States and the social and economic Architecture and a master’s in Urban and Environmental relieve development pressures on the Everglades consequences of urban sprawl. His current work also Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ecosystem. A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton examines whether urban sprawl exacerbates spatial University with a degree in politics and economics, mismatch and residential segregation conditions Marion Standish Starrett is a graduate of Leadership Florida Class XIX experienced by blacks in metropolitan areas. Director, Health Disparities, The California and is a Knight Fellow in Community Building. Endowment Rob Stuart Marion Standish is senior program officer, responsible Lorne Steedley Senior Vice President, @DVOCACY, INC. for developing and managing The California Program Associate, The Annie E. Casey Foundation Rob Stuart is senior vice president of @DVOCACY, INC., Endowment’s program in reducing health disparities. Lorne Steedley is a program associate at the Annie E. and president of the E-Volve Foundation, the company’s She also oversees grantmaking in the San Francisco Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy dedicated to philanthropic arm. Hired by the Rockefeller Family Bay Area. In addition, Standish serves as The California help building better futures for disadvantaged children Fund in the early 1990s to help invent the field of Endowment’s lead officer on The Partnership for the in the United States. The primary mission of the online advocacy for nonprofit groups, Stuart is an online Public’s Health, a five-year program designed to build foundation is to foster public policies, human-service strategist and internet media advisor to numerous strong, effective partnerships between local public reforms, and community supports that more effectively political campaigns, candidates, and advocacy health departments and the communities they serve. meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and organizations. He established his reputation as a She also designed and directed a partnership project families. At Casey, Steedley is developing a body of national leader in the nonprofit technology sector as with The Rockefeller Foundation, California Works for work that seeks to examine the effects of gentrification, the founder and president of the Rockefeller Technology Better Health. The project is a four-year jointly regionalism, and sprawl on vulnerable families in high Project (later renamed TechRocks), a supporting designed, funded and managed initiative to build the growth and no-growth communities. Prior to joining organization to the Rockefeller Family Fund that capacity of community-based organizations to the foundation, Steedley served as the assistant director pioneered Internet for advocacy campaigns and created improve neighborhood health status through regional for the Washington, DC Office of former South Carolina software tools for e-organizing. He was one of the employment strategies. Prior to joining The California Democratic Governor Jim Hodges. Before moving to founders of the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Endowment, she was founder and director of Washington, Steedley spent fourteen years in Boston and spearheaded the National Strategy for Nonprofit California Food Policy Advocates (CFPA). She has also working in the community development field. This Technology. Prior to joining RFF, Stuart had a career as served as director of the California Rural Legal included a six-year tenure with the City of Boston’s a public interest advocate and led successful campaigns Assistance Foundation. Standish began her career as a Department of Neighborhood Development, a stint as for several landmark pieces of environmental and staff attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance, a tenant organizer for Grant Manor, and a broad member consumer protection legislation in New Jersey. He was federally funded legal services program. She serves on of the Four Corners Development Corporation. Steedley a Paul Robeson Scholar at Livingston College and the board of directors of the Food Research and Action is a doctoral student in the Department of Urban Affairs graduated with Honors in Political Science from Rutgers Center, the San Francisco Community Boards Program, and Planning at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University. Stuart helped spearhead the establishment and was recently appointed to the San Francisco State University and is a former Community Fellow of NPower PA, and now serves as its board president. Workforce Investment Board. Standish received her JD from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at He serves as an advisor to BlueGiving.org, and is board from the University of San Francisco School of Law, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. chairman of Taxpayers for Common Sense. and both her master’s and undergraduate degrees from New York University.

68 69 Ray Suarez in 1990, an master of Urban Planning degree from Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Hunter College in 1986, and a BA in Sociology from Margery Austin Turner Ray Suarez joined The NewsHour in October 1999 as Harvard University in 1977. Director, Metropolitan Housing and Communities a Washington-based senior correspondent responsible Center, The Urban Institute for conducting newsmaker interviews, studio Mildred Thompson Margery Austin Turner directs the Urban Institute’s discussion and debates, reporting from the field and Associate Director, PolicyLink Metropolitan Housing and Communities policy center. serving as a backup anchor. Suarez has more than 25 As associate director at PolicyLink, Mildred Thompson A nationally recognized expert on urban policy and years of varied experience in the news business. He leads the work of the organization’s health team, neighborhood issues, Turner analyzes issues of came to The NewsHour from National Public Radio participates in research focused on understanding residential location, racial and ethnic discrimination where he had been host of the nationwide, call-in community factors that impact health disparities and and its contribution to neighborhood segregation and news program “Talk of the Nation” since 1993. Prior to identifying policy changes needed to improve individual, inequality, and the role of housing policies in that, he spent seven years covering local, national, family, and community health. She has been involved promoting residential mobility and location choice. and international stories for the NBC-owned station, in research and advocacy projects such as the federal Much of her current work focuses on the Washington WMAQ-TV in Chicago. Suarez wrote The Old Healthy Start Program, aimed at reducing infant metropolitan area, investigating conditions and trends Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban mortality, and through that project, led a study in neighborhoods across the region. Turner served as Migration (Free Press), and has contributed to Brooklyn confirming that substantive community involvement deputy assistant secretary for Research at the (Workman, 2001), Saving America’s Treasures strengthens programs, communities, and policies. Department of Housing and Urban Development from (National Geographic, 2000), Las Christmas: Favorite Thompson has authored several reports and journal 1993 through 1996, focusing HUD’s research agenda Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories ( Knopf, articles focused on effective ways to impact policy on the problems of racial discrimination, concentrated 1998), and About Men (Poseidon, 1986). His essays change in these areas and to identify innovative poverty, and economic opportunity in America’s and criticism have been published in The New York community-building strategies. Prior to joining metropolitan areas. During her tenure, HUD’s research Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and PolicyLink, Thompson was director of Alameda County office launched three major social science The Baltimore Sun, among other publications. Suarez Public Health Department’s Community Health Services demonstration projects to test different strategies for was also a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, a Division and has degrees in Nursing, Early Childhood helping families from distressed inner-city producer for the ABC Radio Network in New York, a Education, and Psychology and a graduate degree neighborhoods gain access to opportunities through reporter for CBS Radio in Rome, and a reporter for from NYU in Social Work. She has also taught classes employment and education. Turner also previously various American and British news services in London. at Mills College and San Francisco State University, and directed the housing research program at the Urban Suarez holds a BA in African History from New York has worked as an organizational development Institute. She has co-authored two national housing University and an MA in the Social Sciences from the consultant. Thompson has been a speaker at a number discrimination studies, which use paired testing to University of Chicago, where he studied urban affairs. of national conferences, a recipient of numerous determine the incidence of discrimination against A longtime member of the National Association of awards, and serves on several boards and commissions minority homeseekers. Turner has directed research on Hispanic Journalists, Suarez is a founding member of including: Alameda County’s Children’s and Families racial and ethnic steering, neighborhood outcomes for the Chicago Association of Hispanic Journalists. Commission and The Zellerbach Family Foundation. families who receive federal housing assistance, and She is a Robert Wood Johnson Health Initiative Fellow. emerging patterns of neighborhood diversity in city David Swanson and suburban neighborhoods. Board Member, Progressive Democrats of America David B. Thornburgh David Swanson earned a master’s degree in philosophy Executive Director, Pennsylvania Economy League, Marian Urquilla from the University of Virginia in 1997 and worked as a Southeastern Pennsylvania Director, Columbia Heights/Shaw Family Support reporter for newspapers in Virginia and for the Union David B. Thornburgh was named executive director of Collaborative Labor Report prior to becoming in 2000 the first-ever the Pennsylvania Economy League, Southeastern Marian Urquilla has served as executive director of the communications coordinator for ACORN, the Pennsylvania (PEL) in 1994. The Economy League is a Columbia Heights/Shaw Family Support Collaborative Association of Community Organizations for Reform nonprofit public policy research and development since 1996 and has worked in the fields of community Now. At ACORN he worked to get ACORN members’ organization—a “think and do tank”—founded in education and organizing for over 15 years. She has voices heard through the media and to make the 1936 whose mission is to support private sector served as a staff member and consultant for a wide media one of the tools ACORN uses to build the power leadership by promoting better government and a range of organizations, including Roadwork, the needed to win victories for low- and moderate- more competitive Pennsylvania. Thornburgh previously Association for Community Based Education, the Speakers income communities. Swanson left ACORN in 2003 to served as director of the Wharton Small Business Washington School, Stand for Children, and the NGO work as press secretary for Dennis Kucinich for Development Center (SBDC). He also founded a small Forum on Women. She is a board member of a President. He later served as media coordinator for the business incubator program, the Enterprise Center in number of local and national organizations, including International Labor Communications Association. He is West Philadelphia, an award-winning urban business LISTEN, Inc., DC VOICE, the Community Partnership for a board member of Progressive Democrats of America incubator focused on high-growth potential African- the Prevention of Homelessness, and the Nonprofit and a regular weekly contributor on the Thom American owned businesses and created a highly Roundtable of Greater Washington. Drawing on her Hartmann Show. Swanson’s writing has been successful initiative called the Philadelphia 100 that scholarly interest in the fields of race and gender published in numerous newspapers and magazines. recognized the fastest-growing private companies in studies, she is also an experienced trainer in the areas His website is www.davidswanson.org. the region. Prior to his appointment at Wharton, he of cross-cultural communication and community- served as director of Civic Affairs at the CIGNA based leadership development. Urquilla has been a J. Philip Thompson Corporation in Philadelphia, where he was involved in University of Maryland Fellow, a Mellon Fellow in the Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Department of all aspects of the company’s civic involvement, Humanities, and a Rockefeller Next Generation Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts particularly in the areas of community and economic Leadership Fellow. Institute of Technology development. A frequent commentator on public J. Phillip Thompson’s research and teaching interests policy and regional economic development issues, Bill Walczak include urban politics, urban policy, and race and Thornburgh has been quoted often in the Philadelphia Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, ethnic studies. Prior to his work in academia, newspapers and in The New York Times, Wall Street Codman Square Health Center Thompson worked as deputy general manager of the Journal, Inc., and Fortune, and has appeared often on Bill Walczak is most associated with the Codman New York City Housing Authority and as director of the radio and television in Philadelphia. He holds a BA in Square Health Center, a multiservice center he founded Mayor’s Office of Housing Coordination in New York Political Science from Haverford College and a master’s in the 1970s; he has been CEO since 1980. The Health City. Thompson received a Ph.D. in Political Science degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Center is a major provider of clinical services in the from the City University of New York Graduate Center Kennedy School of Government. Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, and provides a

68 69 number of community services including civic health, Hamilton. In 1988, he joined the Union Bank of Wachovia, and in factories. He currently serves on the education, job training, youth services, and public Switzerland (UBS), where he spent seven years in its Board of Directors for the National Community health programs. The Health Center serves over 20,000 capital markets division. Walker is a graduate of the Building Network. He grew-up in rural Appalachia individuals with over 130,000 annual visits, 270 University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas and received a BS in Management from Guilford employees, and a budget of over $15 million. Walczak School of Law. He attended the Kennedy School of College and a master’s degree in social work from is also founding president of Codman Academy Government as a Fannie Mae Foundation Fellow. He University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Charter School, a high school located on the health has a joint appointment at the NYU School of Law and center campus. The Health Center is considered a Wagner School of Public Policy where he teaches Bruce M. Watts model nonprofit for its use of the medical system as a housing, law, and urban development and is also a Program Director, Tri-County Metropolitan platform for community regeneration. In this capacity, fellow of the Institute for Urban Design. His board Transportation District of Oregon Walczak also works on international programs in memberships have included: the Association for In 2002, the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Vietnam. He is Neighborhood Housing and Development, Children’s District of Oregon (TriMet) created a new Diversity and chairman of the DotWell Health Services Partnership, Storefront School in Harlem, New York City Ballet, Transit Equity Department within the Office of the an overseer of Boston Medical Center, and on the Theater for a New Audience, Citizens’ Committee for General Manager and promoted Bruce Watts, then boards of STRIVE, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and Children of New York, National Housing Institute, the a senior director, to head the new department. the Harvard Civil Rights Project. Walczak is past National Low-Income Housing Coalition, and the Under his direction the Diversity and Transit Equity president of Boston HealthNet; the Center for Lincoln Fund. Department acts as a resource to all divisions in the Community Health Education, Research and Service; areas of diversity focusing on recruitment, outreach, and served on the Boston Park Commission, the Deborah Warren transit equity, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Mayor’s Welfare Reform Commission, and Boston 2000. Executive Director, Southern Rural Development (DBE) opportunities. Watts joined TriMet as DBE/ Initiative Workforce manager in 2000, bringing with him an Chantel L. Walker Deborah Warren has spent the past 30 years doing and extensive background in advocacy and public Director of Programs and Evaluation, Marguerite promoting community-based development and involvement. TriMet’s Interstate MAX project created Casey Foundation philanthropy across the South. Since 1995 she has a national model for providing opportunities for Chantel L. Walker is the Marguerite Casey Foundation served as the executive director of the Southern Rural involvement by minority businesses. Over $18 million Director of Programs and Evaluation. As director of Development Initiative. Focused on the rural South, went to DBE’s and 31 percent of the workforce was programs and evaluation, Walker is responsible for SRDI brings and tests new ideas, works to strengthen comprised of women and minorities. Prior to joining leading the foundation’s program team and guiding its the power of grassroots organizations, and helps TriMet, Watts was executive director of the Coalition of overall programs strategy. She also works closely with unleash critical capital in communities challenged by Black Men for 12 years, managing outreach programs colleagues to assist the foundation’s grantee poverty and racism. For the prior 12 years, Warren and developing avenues to further social and organizations in utilizing communications strategies. worked within the statewide legal services economic change for African American and broader Prior to joining the foundation, Walker led a program organization in North Carolina to help build the communities. He also had a three-year stint with the focused on community economic development, community economic development “infrastructure” City of Portland creating methodologies to increase housing, civic engagement, and leadership at the that makes this state unique in the region. She also participation of women and minorities in the Marin Community Foundation. Prior to the Marin served as the first executive director of the Community construction industry. Community Foundation, she worked as the chief Reinvestment Association of NC. Her knowledge of programs and administrative officer at PowerUP, a rural communities and sustainable development Laurie Weahkee, national foundation created to provide resources for strategies was also developed through her work at Executive Director, Sacred Alliance for Grassroots young people in underserved communities to access MDC, Inc. and as co-editor of a weekly newspaper in Equality (SAGE) Council the digital age. During her nearly 20 years experience North Carolina. Warren currently serves on the boards Laurie Weahkee is Dineh, Cochiti, and Zuni Pueblo in philanthropy and the broader nonprofit sector, of Self-Help, the Community Reinvestment Association Indian. She has worked as a community organizer on Walker has worked as a technical assistance provider, of North Carolina, the Community Development land, water and human rights issues with land-based grantmaker, advocate, researcher, and direct service Partnership Network, and the NC Association of communities for over 15 years. Through the provider. Walker is an active volunteer with several Community Development Corporations. She holds a encouragement of her father William F. Weahkee, she nonprofit organizations and public agencies. She is a master’s degree in Regional Planning from University has been working to protect the Native American past president of the San Francisco Redevelopment of North Carolina, Chappel Hill, and an undergraduate sacred site known as the Petroglyph National Agency and the Women’s Foundation of California. In degree from the University of Chicago (Phi Beta Kappa). Monument since the mid 1990’s. Weahkee now serves philanthropy, her volunteerism includes serving on the as the executive director of SAGE (Sacred Alliances for Neighborhood Funders Group board of directors. Thomas Watson Grassroots Equality) Council, based in Albuquerque, Board Member, National Community Building New Mexico. She currently serves as the treasurer on Darren Walker Network, and Co-founder, the Board for the Institute for Collaborative Change, Director, Working Communities, The Rockefeller Center for Participatory Change which seeks to build capacity among progressive Foundation Thomas Watson is a consultant in Baltimore, nonprofit organizations. Weahkee is a former board Darren Walker is director of Working Communities at Maryland. His work focuses on strengthening member of the Seventh Generation Fund and The Rockefeller Foundation, a knowledge-based, organizations, leaders, and networks throughout the YouthAction, which is a national youth organization. global foundation with a commitment to enrich and Southeast. Prior to relocating to Baltimore, Watson sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded co-founded the Center for Participatory Change (CPC) Heaster Wheeler people throughout the world. Walker oversees the in Asheville, North Carolina where until 2004 he was Executive Director, Detroit National Association for development and implementation of the foundation’s co-executive director for over five years. CPC is a the Advancement of Colored People (Detroit NAACP) anti-poverty strategy in the United States, focusing on regional organization that supports rural grassroots Heaster Wheeler is executive director of the Detroit public education, employment, community groups through organizing, capacity building, National Association for the Advancement of Colored development, and democracy-building. Prior to network building, and a small grants program. Prior People. Appointed in October 1999, he tackles major joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Walker served as to CPC, Watson worked for two years in Minneapolis issues, including: regressive juvenile laws, racial chief operating officer of the Abyssinian Development with the Jobs and Affordable Housing Campaign to profiling, voting rights, voter intimidation, prison Corporation, a faith-based community development increase access to affordable housing. He has also expansion, predatory lending, auto insurance organization in Harlem. He began his career in 1986 at worked for Grassroots Leadership, Highlander redlining, criminal justice concerns, and black business the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Research and Education Center, as a banker for expansion. Wheeler has worked in state government

70 71 as deputy director of communications for Curtis Hertel, the Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, and was also co-convener of the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus Summit. He graduated from Detroit Public Schools (Northwestern High) and is currently completing his bachelor’s degree. He attended Clark Atlanta University, Wayne County Community College, and Wayne State University. He has received extensive training in public speaking, public relations, public policy management, and political campaign planning. He is a member of Fellowship Chapel Church. Wheeler serves on a number of boards, including Booker T. Washington Business Association, Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust, Citizens Alliance on Prisons and Public Safety, and Michigan Land Use Leadership Council (appointed by Governor Jennifer Granholm).

Ian Wilhelm Senior Reporter, The Chronicle of Philanthropy Ian Wilhelm is a senior reporter for The Chronicle of Philanthropy, a biweekly newspaper that covers the nonprofit world. At The Chronicle, he reports on foundations, corporate philanthropy, and disaster relief, and has reported from such locations as Sri Lanka and Botswana. Wilhelm graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York. In 2003, he received an International Reporting Project fellowship to write about microfinance in Bolivia. In addition to The Chronicle, Wilhelm has written for The Washington Post, New York Newsday, City Limits magazine, and Horizon magazine.

Joslyn N. Williams President, Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO Joslyn N. Williams is the first African-American president of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO, having been elected initially in 1982 and every three years since. Formerly, he had been the director of AFSCME Council 26, and, as an employee at the Library of Congress, had increased membership in their union threefold. He served as the assistant director of the AFL-CIO Department of Field Mobilization, is a member of the AFL-CIO Central Speakers Labor Council Advisory Committee, and is a former regional director of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. He is a labor member of the Workforce Investment Council in DC, and is on the board of the local National Conference for Community and Justice, DC Jobs with Justice, the ACLU of the National Capital Area, the DC Convention and Tourism Bureau, and the Anacostia Watefront Economic Development Corporation. He has served in the District of Columbia as a member of many boards and commissions including the Tax Revision Commission, the Unemployment Compensation Study Commission, and commissions that developed proposals for health care coverage, telecommunications, and cable television. He served as an election observer for the first universal elections in South Africa, and has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and Central America representing the AFL-CIO.

70 71 Advancing Regional Equity: The Second National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth Venue Map

The workshop rooms, screening room, i-Café, and publications area are all located on the 200 level of the convention center (map below).

Ballroom B, located above the Grand Hall is the location for all plenary sessions. It is accessible via escalators and elevators. Registration and continental breakfast are located outside of the ballroom.

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