Just Economy Conference 2018 | NCRC | 9 April 2018 | Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009, US

The Just Economy Conference is one of the nation’s largest gatherings of community nonprofits, policymakers, government officials, small businesses, banks, and academia, all coming together to create a just economy.

The conference features:

• A wide range of sessions on community organizing and advocacy, housing, access to capital and credit, workforce and community development, fair lending, and business development
• Experts and advocates sharing new developments, best practices, and innovative ideas for community reinvestment
• Keynote addresses from prominent officials and leaders
• NCRC’s Hill Day
• The 2018 NCRC National Achievement Awards Dinner

2018 Speaker

Muriel Bowser
Mayor of the District of Columbia @MayorBowser

Robert Dickerson, Jr.
Chair, NCRC Board of Directors,

Executive Director, Birmingham Business Resource Center, Birmingham,

Kevin Hill,
Community Reinvestment Act Manager, NCRC, Washington, DC

David Snyder,
Director of Organizing, Jewish Community Action,

Richfield, MN;
Member, NCRC Board of Directors @JCA_MN

Evan Behrle,
Special Advisor, Opioid Policy, Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, MD@BMore_Healthy

Peter Hille,
President, MACED, Berea, KY @MACED_Ky

Pam Johnson,
Executive Vice President of Business Development & Outreach, Fahe, Berea, KY @Faheonline

Carol McDaid,
Principal, Capitol Decisions, Inc., Washington, DC @CapDecisions

David Lipsetz,
Executive Director, Housing Assistance Council, Washington, DC @DavidLipsetz

Benjamin Dulchin,
Executive Director, Association of Neighborhood Housing Developers, New York, NY @bdulchin

Maxine Fitzpatrick,
Executive Director, Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives, Inc. (PCRI), Portland, OR @PCRIhome

Estephanie Sunga,
Program and Events Associate, Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, San Francisco, CA @EstephanieNPH

Mark Pinsky,
President, Five/Four Advisors, Philadelphia, PA

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad,
Senior Fellow, Racial Wealth Divide Initiative Prosperity Now, Washington, DC @DedrickM

Marla Bilonick,
Executive Director, Latino Economic Development Center, Washington, DC @MarlaBilonick

Sister Corinne Florek,
Executive Director, Religious Communities Investment Fund, Oakland, CA

Irv Henderson, Trustee,
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Henderson, NC; Member, NCRC Board of Directors

Bruce Dorpalen,
Executive Director, National Housing Resource Center, Philadelphia, PA

Brian Siebenlist,
Director, Office of Policy & Grant Administration,Office of Housing Counseling, U.S. Depart.of Housing and Urban Development,

Brett Theodos,
Principal Research Associate, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC@urbaninstitute

Peter Hainley,
Executive Director, CASA of Oregon, Sherwood, OR; Member, NCRC Board of Directors

Brian Friedman,
President, Plan F Solutions, Cleveland, OH

Anthony Jones,
Chief Executive Officer and President, Bright Community Trust, Clearwater, FL @ajquiltmaker

Desirée Venn Frederic,
Founding Director, Combing Cotton, Co., Washington, DC

Josh Silver,
Senior Adviser, NCRC, Washington, DC

Grovetta Gardineer,
Senior Deputy Comptroller for Compliance and Community Affairs, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC

Michael Gaughan,
Executive Director, Vermont Municipal Bond Bank, Winooski, VT

Buzz Roberts,
President and Chief Executive Officer, NAAHL, Washington, DC

Barbara Van Kerkhove,
Research and Policy Analyst, Empire Justice Center, Rochester, NY @empirejustice

Robert Dickerson,
Chair, NCRC Board of Directors, Executive Director, Birmingham Business Resource Center , Birmingham, AL

William Eager,
Vice President, Chicago Area, Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc., Washington,

Maxine Fitzpatrick,
Executive Director, Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives, Inc. (PCRI), Portland, OR @PCRIhome

Todd Lee,
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, DC Housing Finance Agency, Washington, DC @ToddLeeDCHFA

William Eager,
Vice President, Chicago Area, Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc., Washington, DC @POAHCommunities

Maxine Fitzpatrick,
Executive Director, Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives, Inc. (PCRI), Portland, OR @PCRIhome

Todd Lee,
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, DC Housing Finance Agency, Washington, DC @ToddLeeDCHFA

Ian Galloway,
Director, Center for Community Development Investments, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,San Francisco,Portland, OR

Dan Soliman,
Director of Housing Impact, AARP Foundation, Washington, DC @dansoliman

David Streim,
Director, Underwriting, Nonprofit Finance Fund, Philadelphia, PA @nff_news

Andrew Nachison,
Chief of Communications, NCRC, Washington, DC @anachison

Nicole Cairns,
Digital Strategy and Fundraising, Indivisible, Washington, DC @nicelca

Enchanta Jackson,
Co-Director of Organizing, Criminal Justice, Color of Change, Oakland, CA @ColorOfChange

Shireen Mitchell,
Founder, Digital Sisters / Stop Online Violence Against Women, Washington, DC @digitalsista

Gloria Pan,
National Campaign Director for Gun Safety, Member Engagement and Rapid Response, MomsRising, Oak Hill, VA @GloPanb

Kristina Musante,
Director, Training Academy, NCRC, Washington, DC @KristinaMusante

Catherine Crosby,
Chief of Staff, Mayor’s Office, Toledo, Ohio; Member, NCRC Board of Directors

Maryellen J. Lewis,
Chair, Michigan Community Reinvestment Coalition, Lansing, MI; Member, NCRC Board of Directors @lewisma9

Andreanecia Morris,
Executive Director, HousingNOLA, New Orleans, LA @andreanecia

Kevin Stein,
Deputy Director, California Reinvestment Coalition, San Francisco, CA; Member, NCRC Board of Directors @CalReinvest

Danny Gardner,
Vice President of Single-Family Affordable Lending and Access to Credit, Freddie Mac, Washington, DC @Danny_R_Gardner

Noelle Melton,
Director of Affordable Housing Initiatives, Fannie Mae, Washington, DC

Ted Wartell,
Manager of the Office of Housing and Community Investment, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Washington, DC @FHFA

Robert W. Zimmer,
Executive Director (Acting), The Community Mortgage Lenders of America, Washington, DC @the_CMLA

Valerie Wilson,
Director, Program on Race, Ethnicity & the Economy, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC @EconomicPolicy

Dee Claxton,
Director of the DC Women’s Business Center, NCRC, Washington, DC @TheDCWBC

Cindy Hounsell,
President, Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER), Washington, DC @WISERwomen

Maya Raghu,
Director of Workplace Equality & Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center, Washington, DC @Maya_Raghu

Jacqueline Reses
Head of Square Capital and Chief People Officer for Square, San Francisco, CA

Ernest Hogan,
Executive Director, Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group, Pittsburgh, PA; Secretary, NCRC Board of Directors @PghCRG

Dr. Michael Bader,
Assistant Professor, American University, Washington, DC @mike_bader

Dr. Bruce Mitchell,
Senior Research Analyst, NCRC, Washington, DC

Felicia Tripp,
Deputy Director, Portland Housing Center, Portland, OR @PHCtweet

Kevin Stein,
Deputy Director, California Reinvestment Coalition, San Francisco, CA; Member, NCRC Board of Directors

Alexis Iwanisziw,
Deputy Director, New Economy Project, New York, NY @iwanisziw

Sapna Mehta,
Legislative Policy Director, Main Street Alliance, Washington, DC @sapnamehta113

Jason Richardson,
Director of Research, NCRC, Washington, DC

Arden Shank,
Board Chair, Community Reinvestment Alliance of South Florida, Miami, FL; Member, NCRC Board of Directors.

Dr. Kevin Barnett,
Senior Investigator, Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA @PHI_Research

Pablo Bravo,
Vice President of Community Health, Dignity Health, San Francisco, CA @DignityHealth

Pedro Cons,
Executive Vice President of Integrated Health, Chicanos Por La Causa, Phoenix, AZ @CPLdotORG

Brian Rahmer,
Vice President of Health and Housing, Enterprise Community Partners, Wilmington, DE @brianrahmer

Donna Fabiani,
Executive Vice President of Knowledge Sharing, Opportunity Finance Network, Washington, DC

Michelle Dickens,
Senior Certification Officer, CDFI Fund, U.S. Department of Treasury, Washington, DC

Jason Friedman,
Principal, Friedman & Associates, Iowa City, IA

Donna Gambrell,
Chief Executive Officer, Appalachian Community Capital, Christiansburg, VA @ACEnetAthens

Ali Lederer,
Director of Fair Lending and Consumer Protection, NCRC, Washington, DC

Stella Adams,
Chief of Equity and Inclusion, NCRC, Washington, DC

Sharon Kinlaw,
Executive Director, Fair Housing Council of the San Fernando Valley, Panorama City, CA @FairHousingSFV

John Relman,
Managing Partner, Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC, Washington, DC

Michael Seng,
Director, Fair Housing Legal Support Center, The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL

Peter Hainley,
Executive Director, CASA of Oregon, Sherwood, OR; Member, NCRC Board of Directors @CASAofOregon

Laura Buxbaum,
Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Resource Development, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Brunswick, ME @BuxbaumLaura

David Lipsetz,
Executive Director, Housing Assistance Council, Washington, DC @DavidLipsetz

Alicia Sebastian,
Director of Housing and Community Development Programs,California Coalition for Rural Housing,Sacramento,CA @CalRuralHousing

Kate Mereand,
Program Manager, Department of Small & Local Business Development, Washington, DC

Ron Busby,
President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc., Washington, DC @usblackchambers

David Harrington,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Prince Georges County Chamber of Commerce, Lanham, MD

Sharon Pinder,
President and CEO, Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council, Silver Spring, MD @CRMSDC

Robert Dickerson, Jr.
Chair, NCRC Board of Directors

Executive Director, Birmingham Business Resource Center , Birmingham, AL @bdickersonjr

Rev. Jesse Jackson
Founder and President, Rainbow PUSH

John Taylor
President and CEO, NCRC @NCRC

Jesse Van Tol
Chief Operating Officer, NCRC @jessevantol

Special Announcement
WITH FIRST TENNESSEE BANK:

D. Bryan Jordan
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, First Horizon National Corporation

President and Chief Executive Officer,The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights @vanitaguptaCR

Beth Harber,
Senior Program Officer for Community Development, Abell Foundation, Baltimore, MD @abellfoundation

Kelly Kent,
Director, National LGBT Elder Housing Initiative, SAGE, Kansas City, MO @sageusa

Earl Millett,
Chief Operating Officer, Civic Works, Baltimore, MD @CivicWorksInc

Emily Morris Litonjua,
Executive Director, ESAC, Boston, MA @ESACBosv

Dr. Sarah Szanton,
Director and Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Center for Innovative Care in Aging, Baltimore, MD @sarah_szanton

Stella Adams,
Chief of Equity and Inclusion, NCRC, Washington, DC

Louis Caditz Peck,
Director of Public Policy, LendingClub, San Francisco, CA @LendingClub

Chris Massey,
Head of Global Government Relations & Public Policy, Square, Washington, DC

Dory Rand,
President, Woodstock Institute Chicago, IL; Vice Chair, NCRC Board of Directors @WoodstockInst

Beverly Watts,
Executive Director, Tennessee Human Rights Commission, Nashville, TN; Member, NCRC Board of Directors @TNHumanRights

Robert Hassinger,
Workforce Employment Manager, NCRC, Washington, DC

Natishia Y. June,
Organizing Manager, American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Orlando, FL @NatishiaY

Ed Gorman,
Chief of Community Development, NCRC, Washington, DC

Alanna McCargo,
Vice President, Housing Finance Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC @MyHomeMatters

Phil Bracken,
Head of Government and Industry Relations, Radian Guaranty, Philadelphia, PA

John O’Callaghan,
President and CEO, Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Atlanta, GA

Kevin Davenport,
Director of Membership and Organizing, NCRC, Washington, DC

Stephen “Steve” Glaude,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development (CNHED), Washington, DC

Deloris Wilson, JD,
Inclusive Innovation Fellow, BEACON: The D.C. Women Founders Initiative, Washington, DC @thebeacondc

Dr. Robert Zdenek,
Director of Special Initiatives, NCRC, Washington, DC

David Adame,
President and CEO, Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., Phoenix, AZ; Member, NCRC Board of Directors @DavidAdameCPLC

Dr. Corianne Scally,
Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, Washington, DC @CorianneScally

Dr. Kamillah Wood,
Senior Vice President, Health and Housing, Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future, Washington, DC @kamwood

Carol Johnson,
Executive Director, Arkansas Fair Housing Commission, Little Rock, AR; Member, NCRC Board of Directors @ARFairhouse

Carol Evans,
Associate Director, Division of Consumer & Community Affairs, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC @federalreserve

Bryan Greene,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Donna Murphy,
Deputy Comptroller for Compliance Risk Policy, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC @USOCC

Dory Rand,
President, Woodstock Institute Chicago, IL; Vice Chair, NCRC Board of Directors @WoodstockInst

Nanette Goodman,
Senior Researcher, National Disability Institute, Washington, DC

Kevin Hill,
Community Reinvestment Act Manager, NCRC, Washington, DC

Jeanne Hogarth,
Chief Executive Officer, William L Reed & Associates, LLC, Oakton, VA @JeanneHogarth

Jason Martin,
Senior Vice President, Checking and Debit Product Executive, Consumer & Small Business, Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

David Rothstein,
Principal, Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, New York, NY @CFEfund

Elisabeth Risch,
Assistant Director, Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing & Opportunity Council, St. Louis, MO; Member, NCRC Board of Directors

Aaron Glantz,
Senior Reporter, Reveal, Emeryville, CA @Aaron_Glantz

Lisa Montelione,
Employer Relations and Job Developer, CDC of Tampa, Tampa, FL @LJMFLA

Josh Silver,
Senior Advisor, NCRC, Washington, DC

Vonda Eanes,
Director, CRA and Fair Lending Policy, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC @USOCC

Pamela Freeman,
Senior Examination Specialist, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Washington, DC

Anjanette Kichline,
Assistant Vice President, Supervision, Regulation and Credit Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA @philadephiafed

Ibijoke Akinbowale,
Director, Financial Equality Center & Housing Counseling Network, NCRC, Washington, DC

Brad Blackwell,
Executive Vice President of Housing Policy and Homeownership Growth Strategies, Wells Fargo, Danville CA

Christine Gould,
Chief Development and Communications Officer, HomeFree-USA, Riverdale, MD @HomeFreeUSA

Mae Watson Grote,
Founder and CEO, The Financial Clinic, Brooklyn, NY @financialclinic

Kate Rios,
Associate Director of Financial Capability, UnidosUS, Washington, DC

Jason Richardson,
Director of Research, NCRC, Washington, DC

Alex Horowitz,
Senior Research Officer, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, DC @pewtrusts

Yana Miles,
Senior Legislative Counsel, Center for Responsible Lending, Durham, NC

Adam Rust,
Director of Research, Reinvestment Partners, Durham, NC @ReinvestPartner

Nancy Isenberg
Historian & Author, “White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America” @andyandnancy

J. Phillip Thompson
Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives for New York @NYCMayorsOffice

John Taylor
President and CEO, NCRC

Marceline White,
Executive Director, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition, Baltimore, MD; Member, NCRC Board of Directors @mdconsumers

José Alcoff,
Payday Campaign Manager, Americans for Financial Reform, Washington, DC @RealBankReform

Beverly Brown Ruggia,
Financial Justice & CRA Organizer, New Jersey Citizen Action, Newark, NJ @BBRTweet

Deepak Gupta,
Principal, Gupta Wessler PLLC, Washington, DC

Ed Mierzwinski,
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program, U.S. PIRG, Washington, DC @edmpirg

Stella Adams,
Chief of Equity and Inclusion, NCRC, Washington, DC

Dr. Sterling A. Bone,
Associate Professor of Marketing at Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Logan, UT

Dr. Glenn Christensen,
Garrett Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Marketing, Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Ali Lederer,
Director of Fair Lending and Consumer Protection, NCRC, Washington, DC

Dr. Jerome Williams,
Provost, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, NJ

David Adame,
President and CEO, Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., Phoenix, AZ; Member, NCRC Board of Directors @DavidAdameCPLC

Robert Hassinger,
Workforce Employment Manager, NCRC, Washington, DC

Tony Tullio,
Workforce Consultant, Rancho Mirage, CA

Andrew Wells,
Director, Workforce Development, Chicago Urban League, Chicago, IL @ChiUrbanLeague

Nan Gibson,
Executive Director, Public Policy & Corporate Responsibility, JP Morgan Chase, Washington, DC

Corey Carlisle,
Executive Director, American Bankers Association Foundation, Washington, DC @ABABankers

Robyn Dorsey,
Policy Research and Reinvestment Manager, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition, Baltimore, MD @mdconsumers

Roslyn Quarto,
Executive Director of Empowering & Strengthening Ohio’s People & V.P of Advocacy for Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging,Cleveland

Hubert Van Tol, Sr.
Director, Economic Development,PathStone, Rochester, NY; Member, NCRC Board of Directors @Bankbane

Janet Hamer,
Vice President, Community Development Manager, TD Bank, Daytona Beach, FL @TDBank_US

Melissa Malkin-Weber,
Sustainability Director, Self-Help Credit Union, Durham, NC @buildingsystem

Melodi Morrissette,
Community Relations Executive, East Region, BBVA Compass, Birmingham, AL @BBVACompass

Javier E. Zapata,
Deputy Director for Economic Development, Puerto Rico, PathStone Enterprise Center, Ponce, PR @PathStoneCorp

Brent Kakesako,
Executive Director, Hawaii Alliance for Community Based Economic Development, Honolulu, HI; Member, NCRC Board of Directors

Bert Hunter,
Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Connecticut Green Bank, Stamford, CT

Alicia Sebastian,
Director of Housing and Community Development Programs, California Coalition for Rural Housing, Sacramento, CA

Dana Sleeper,
Director of External Affairs, Solar Energy Industries Association, Washington, DC

Nicole Sitaraman,
Senior Manager, Sunrun, San Francisco, CA @Sunrun

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad,
Senior Fellow, Racial Wealth Divide Initiative, Prosperity Now, Washington, DC @DedrickM

Jason Richardson,
Director of Research, NCRC, Washington, DC

SPEAKERS:

Cat Goughnour,
Senior Program Manager, Prosperity Now, Washington, DC @prosperitynow

Samantha Vargas-Poppe,
Associate Director, Policy Analysis Center, ORAL, UnidosUS, Washington, DC @WeAreUnidosUS

Keith Ellison
U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 5th District

Jeff Merkley
U.S. Senator from Oregon