Speakers
Regional equity plenary and workshop speakers came from community organizations, foundations, government, and businesses in urban, suburban, and rural areas. They, along with the nearly 2,000 participants, engaged in lively discussion focusing on developing innovative strategies to increase economic, environmental, and social justice.
Enclosed below, is a list of the speakers who attended the summit:
PLENARIES
Nancy Aardema
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Richard D. Baron
McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc.
Judith Bell
PolicyLink
Angela Glover Blackwell
PolicyLink
Maria Echeveste
Nueva Vista, LLC
Patrick Gaspard
Service Employees International Union
Antonio Gonzalez
Southwest Voter Education Project
Martha Guzman
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Mayor Victor P. Lopez
City of Orange Cove, California
Martha Matsuoka
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College
Robert K. Ross
The California Endowment
Ronald C. Sims
King County, Washington
Tavis Smiley
The Tavis Smiley Show
Nathaniel Smith
Emory University
Michele Thomas
Tenants Union of Washington State
Duoa Thor
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
Jim Wallis
Sojourners/Call to Renewal
Rev. Dwight Webster
Christian Unity Baptist Church
WORKSHOP SERIES 1: THE CONTEXT FOR ADVANCING REGIONAL EQUITY
New Realities in Policy and Funding at Federal and State Levels
Melody Barnes
Center for American Progress
Jim Gibson
Center for the Study of Social Policy
Celinda Lake
Lake Research Partners
Amy Liu
Brookings Institution
The Changing Geography of Poverty and Opportunity
Paul C. Brophy
Brophy & Reilly, LLC
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
School of Public Health, Harvard University
Ted Gordon
University of Texas at Austin
The Honorable Joseph H. Neal
South Carolina State Representative
Rolf Pendall
Cornell University, Department of City and Regional Planning
Immigrant Contributions to the Regional Economy
Jennifer Allen
Border Action Network
Rosalind Gold
National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials
Stewart Kwoh
Asian Pacific American Legal
Duoa Thor
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
Health, Place, and Equity
Gail C. Christopher
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Ana Diez-Roux
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan
Mildred Thompson
PolicyLink
David R. Williams
Harvard University
Living on the Line
Phil Bronder-Giroux
Tri-City Community Action Program, Inc.
Don Chen
Ford Foundation
Sheila Crowley
National Low Income Housing Coalition
Juliet Ellis
Urban Habitat
Quality and Equity in Education
Mary Filardo
21st Century School Fund
Mary Lee
PolicyLink
john a. powell
The Kirwan Institute
Michael A. Rebell
Campaign for Fiscal Equity
The New Orleans Story
Steve Bradberry
Louisiana ACORN
Kalima Rose
PolicyLink
Carey Shea
Greater New Orleans Foundation
Father Vien The Nguyen
Mary Queen of Vietnam
Global Warming, Climate Change, and Equity
Dana Bourland
Enterprise Community Partners
Peter C. Goldmark
Climate and Air Program, Environmental Defense
The Honorable William Peduto
Pittsburgh City Council, District 8
Jerome Ringo
Apollo Alliance
Joan Walsh
Salon
Business Perspectives on Equitable Development
Richard D. Baron
Baron, McCormack, Salazaar
Carla Javits
REDF (Roberts Enterprise Development Fund)
Josh Kirschenbaum
PolicyLink
Roger Willliams
Annie E. Casey Foundation
WORKSHOP SERIES 2: TRENDS TO WATCH
Community College and Workforce Education
Ellen Brown
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
Denise G. Fairchild
Community Development Technologies Center (CD Tech)
Alberto Retana
Community Coalition
Jenny Wittner
Workforce Development Policy, Women Employed
A Conversation with Mayors of Smaller Cities
Judith Bell
PolicyLink
The Honorable Christopher Doherty
Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania
The Honorable Hannah McKinney
Mayor of Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Honorable Jay Williams
Mayor of Youngstown, Ohio
Housing Strategies for Inclusive Regions
Peter Dreier
Occidental College
Doris Koo
Enterprise Community Partners
Kalima Rose
PolicyLink
Margery Austin Turner
Metropolitan Housing and Communities, The Urban Institute
Land Use and Public Health
Lili Farhang
San Francisco Department of Public Health
Anthony B. Iton
Alameda County Public Health Department
Marya Morris
Duncan Associates
Victor Rubin
PolicyLink
Men and Boys of Color
Joe Brooks
PolicyLink
Frank de Jesus Acosta
Barrios Unidos and Institute for Community Peace
Dorsey E. Nunn
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Dr. Henrie Treadwell
Morehouse School of Medicine / Community Voices
Tami Wilson
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
Megaregions and Long-Range Planning: America in 2050
David Crossley
Gulf Coast Institute
Philip Nyden
Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University
Neil Peirce
The Citistates Group
Catherine L. Ross
Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, Georgia Institute of Technology
Petra Todorovich
America 2050
Innovations and Inequities in the Gulf Coast Recovery
Derrick Christopher Evans
Turkey Creek Community Initiatives
Thomas J. O’Malley
AFL-CIO Investment Trust
Rosalind Magee Peychaud
Neighborhood Development Foundation
Ellen Rogers
Bank of America
Edward Sivak
ECD/HOPE (Enterprise Corporation of the Delta and Hope Community Credit Union)
The Latest Research to Make the Case for Regional Equity
Carl Anthony
University of California at Berkeley
Myron Orfield
Institute on Race and Poverty, University of Minnesota
Manuel Pastor
University of Southern California
David Rusk
Urban Policy Consultant
Lisa Servon
Milano The New School For Management and Urban Policy
Using Data and Maps to Support Equitable Development
John Hopkins
Buckeye Area Development Corporation
Tom Kingsley
Metropolitan Housing and Communities, The Urban Institute
Michael Schramm
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, Case Western Reserve
John Talmadge
Social Compact
Stephanie Turner
Key Bank National Association
Denice Warren
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center and Community User
Innovations in Asset & Wealth Building
George A. Harris III
Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation
Ted Howard
The Democracy Collaborative
Andrea Levere
CFED
Heather McColloch
Asset Building Strategies
WORKSHOP SERIES 3: ACHIEVING POLICY IMPACT
Eliminating Poverty
Linda Gibbs
Health and Human Services, New York City
Mark H. Greenberg
Task Force on Poverty, Center for American Progress
The Honorable Otis S. Johnson
Mayor, Savannah Georgia
Vicky Selkowe
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Rural Communities, Real Choices
Dee Davis
Center for Rural Strategies
Richard M. Foster
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Karen Heisler
Family and Community Asset Development, Rural Dynamics
The Honorable Robert L. Jackson
Mississippi State Senate
Jerry Pennick
Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Lorette Picciano
Rural Coalition
Rebuilding America’s Older Core Cities: The Role of State Policy
Lavea Brachman
Greater Ohio
Julie W. Seward
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Jennifer S. Vey
Brookings Institution
Local Access to Healthy Food
Paul D. Charles
The National Black MBA Association, Inc., Houston Chapter
Aurora Flores
South LA Healthy Eating Active Communities (HEAC) Initiative
Mary Lee
PolicyLink
Patricia L. Smith
The Reinvestment Fund
Deborah Yashar
Agriculture & Land-Based Training Association (ALBA)
Achieving Equity in Transit Oriented Development
Nora Liu
Office of Planning and Policy, City of Seattle
Marvin Martin
Greater Four Corners Action Coalition
Shelley Poticha
Reconnecting America
Daniel A. Rosenfeld
Urban Partners
Infrastructure and Jobs
Robert Alvarado
Northern California Carpenters Regional Council
Marvin Hayes
Office of Ohio Governor Ted Strickland
Sharon Huntsman
California EDGE Campaign
Ruben Lizardo
PolicyLink
Legal Strategies for Regional Equity
Marice Ashe
Public Health Law & Policy
Dayna L. Cunningham
Community Innovators Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
William Kennedy
Legal Services of Northern California
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Community Benefits Agreements 2.0
Zelenne L. Cárdenas
Social Model Recovery Systems, Inc.
Leslie Moody
The Partnership for Working Families
Alez Dong Zhang
Asian Community Development Corporation
Reclaiming Vacant Properties
Daniel Kildee
Genesee County, Michigan
Jennifer Leonard
National Vacant Properties Campaign
Vernice Miller-Travis
Environmental Support Center
Lottie Sneed
Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD)
The New Metropolis: America's First Tier Suburbs and Sprawl
Carl Anthony
University of California at Berkeley
The Honorable Parris N. Glendenning
Smart Growth Leadership Institute (Former Governor, State of Maryland)
Ellen Schneider
Active Voice
Andrea Torrice
Director, The New Metropolis
Creating Housing Opportunity Through Inclusionary Housing and Shared Equity Ownership
Adam Gross
Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
The Honorable Cheryl Gray
State Senator, Louisiana Legislature
Myrna Melgar
Mayor's Office of Housing, City of San Francisco
Jaimie Ross
1000 Friends of Florida
WORKSHOP SERIES 4: EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES, CREATING TACTICS OF ACTION
Addressing the National Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis
Alan Fisher
California Reinvestment Committee
Steve Kest
Acorn National
Bernie Mazyck
South Carolina Association of Community Development Corporation
Ending Obesity through Collaboration
Larry Cohen
Prevention Institute
Dwayne C. Proctor
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Loel S. Solomon
Kaiser Permanente
Marion Standish
The California Endowment
As Yet Untitled: Equity Issues for Unincorporated Areas
Anita Earls
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Ann Moss Joyner
Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities
Phoebe Seaton
California Rural Legal Assistance
Peter M. Ward
The University of Texas
Urban Greening, Parks, and Social Justice
Kathy Blaha
Kathy Blaha Consulting, LLC
The Honorable Christopher Doherty
Mayor, City of Scranton, Pennsylvania
Robert Garcia
The City Project
Michael Howard
Fuller Park Community Development
Turning the Tide: Affordable Housing and Gentrification
Fred Blackwell
Redevelopment Agency, City and County of San Francisco
Xavier de Souza Briggs
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brad Lander
Pratt Center for Community Development
Shushma Sheth
Miami Workers Center
Innovations in Equitable Development Grantmaking
Raymond Colmenar
The California Endowment
James Head
The San Francisco Foundation
Suzanne Siskel
Community and Resource Development Unit, Ford Foundation
L. Benjamin Starrett
Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Click Here for Change: e-Advocacy as Policy Tool
Larry Eason
Virilion
Allen Gunn
Aspiration
Kevin O’Neille
Grassroots Enterprise
Sandra Whisler
PolicyLink
Arts, Culture, and Community Development
Caron Atlas
Community Arts Consultant
Carol Bebelle
Ashé Cultural Arts Center
Patricia Cruz
Harlem Stage
Kinshasha Holman Conwill
National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution
Nico Strange Owl
First People’s Fund
Donald H. Russell
Provisions Institute
How New Media Can Spark Social Change
Eric Alterman
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Joel Barkin
Progressive States Network
Elana Levin
Drum Major Institute
Christopher M. Rabb
Visceral Ventures, LLC
Liza Sabater
CultureKitchen.com
Assessing and Developing Racially Equitable Policies
Frank Fernandez
Community Partnership for the Homeless
Julia Freeman
Organizing Apprenticeship Project
Terry Keleher
Applied Research Center
Jason Reece
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, The Ohio State University
Jermaine Toney
Organizing Apprenticeship Project
Test Driving Neighborhood Information Systems
Lee Deuben
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Tara Jackson
Cartographic Modeling Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
Jeff Matson
Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, University of Minnesota
Kathy L.S. Pettit
National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, The Urban Institute
Michael Schramm
Center for Urban Poverty and Social Change, Case Western Reserve University
Sarah Treuhaft
PolicyLink
WORKSHOP SERIES 5: STRATEGIC ALLIANCES, BUILDING PUBLIC WILL AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Rural Advocacy for Policy Reform
Gary R. Grant
Concerned Citizens of Tillery
Oleta Fitzgerald
CDF-Southern Regional Office
Carolina Simunovic
Central Valley Air Quality Coalition
Building University-Community Partnerships
Barbara A. Israel
University of Michigan
Frank Lopez
Nonprofit Enterprise Center
Sonya Grant-Pierson
Rebuilding Communities, Inc/Warren-Conner Development Coalition (WCDC)
Michael Rich
Office of University-Community Partnerships, Emory University
Victor Rubin
PolicyLink
Azuri L. Ruiz
University of Texas at El Paso
Nathaniel Smith
Emory University
Linking Economic Growth and Social Inclusion: Lessons from Older Industrial America
Radhika Fox
PolicyLink
Sharmain Matlock-Turner
Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition
Gabriella Morris
The Prudential Foundation
Stefan Pryor
City of Newark
The Green Economy and Jobs
Xavier Abraham
YouthBuild Boston
Sharon Alpert
Surdna Foundation
Chris Cato
YouthBuild USA
J. Phillip Thompson
Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), MIT
Karla Zombro
Strategic Concepts in Organizing & Policy Education (SCOPE)
America's Gateways and the Possibilities for a Progressive Ports Agenda
Nancy C. Button
The New Rosemont Homeowners Association
Andrea M. Hricko
Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of Southern California
Martha Matsuoka
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College
Bernida Reagan
Merriwether Williams Insurance Services
Environmental Justice Partnerships: Building Healthy and Sustainable Communities
Robert D. Bullard
Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University
Scott Darling, III
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Alan Hipólito
Verde
Donele Wilkins
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
Beverly Wright
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice; Dillard University
Advocacy Coalitions: Lessons from the Gulf Coast
Dominique Duval-Diop
PolicyLink
Derrick Johnson
Mississippi NAACP
James Perry
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
Kimberley M. Miller
OXFAM America
Ashley Shelton
Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation
Bringing an Inclusive Regional Equity Movement
Frank J. Omowale Satterwhite
National Community Development Institute
Robin Danner
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement
Lisa Hasegawa
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
Faith in Action: Congregations Advancing Regional Equity
Drew Astolfi
FACE (Faith Action for Community Equity)
Reverend Don Boutte
Churches Supporting Churches; PolicyLink Consultant in New Orleans
Ponsella Hardaway
Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength
Mary Nelson
Bethel New Life, Inc.
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