Jorge Blandón
Jorge Blandón is Vice President of the Oakland-based Family Independence Initiative, a national nonprofit that leverages technology and data for low-income families to lead their own change.
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Angela Glover Blackwell
Angela Glover Blackwell is the President and CEO of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute that advances economic and social equity through policy work and by connecting people already doing such work on the ground.
James Johnson-Piett
James Johnson-Piett is the principal and CEO of New York-based Urbane Development, a community development venture that utilizes a community's greatest resource to build dynamic neighborhoods in underserved areas: the community itself.
Steve Barlow
Steve Barlow is a partner in Brewer & Barlow PLC, a civil justice law firm based in Memphis, and co-founder of Neighborhood Preservation, Inc., a nonprofit established to resolve vacant property and abandonment challenges in the city.
Gabriel Mandujano
Gabriel Mandujano is the founder and CEO of Philadelphia-based Wash Cycle Laundry, a triple-bottom-line social enterprise that provides much-needed corporate laundry services while also providing green economy jobs to folks returning to the workforce.
Adele London
Adele London is the Director of Business Development of the Good Work Network in New Orleans, a small business resource center that works to provide economic opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses.
Isis Ferguson
Isis Ferguson is the Associate Director of City + Community Strategy for Place Lab, a catalyst for mindful urban transformation and creative redevelopment overseen by renowned social practice artist Theaster Gates.
Through business stardom and personal struggles, Pashon Murray remains focused
Pashon Murray, co-founder of Detroit Dirt, has visited the White House, been featured in a Ford commercial, and written about in national magazines. All this publicity has been great for her composting business, but it hasn't come without difficulties.
Eric Avner
Eric Avner is Vice President and Senior Manager of community development programs for the Cincinnati-based Haile Foundation, and is CEO of People's Liberty, a "philanthropic lab" that invests directly in individuals through funding and mentorship.
The Downtown Boxing Gym is much more than a boxing gym
Carlo "Khali" Sweeney is the founder of a boxing gym on Detroit's east side that develops good citizenship in urban youth through a wide variety of educational and fitness programs and voluntary service.
