| Honorary Committee |
Rebecca Adamson Founder and President First Peoples Worldwide |
Scott L. Cummings Professor of Law UCLA |
Benjamin Todd Jealous President and CEO NAACP |
Mary Peña Executive Director Project QUEST, Inc. |
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Council Member Richard Alarcón Los Angeles |
Ron V. Dellums Mayor City of Oakland |
Rochelle Lento Of Counsel Dykema Gossett PLLC |
Mark Pinsky President and CEO Opportunity Finance Network |
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Douglas J. Besharov Professor University of Maryland School of Public Policy |
Margot Dorfman CEO US Women’s Chamber of Commerce |
Ralph Lippman Executive Director California Community Economic Development Association |
john a. powell Executive Director Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Ohio State University |
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Deepak Bhargava Executive Director Center for Community Change |
Bob Friedman General Counsel, Founder, Board Chair CFED |
U.S. Representative Dave Loebsack (D-IA) |
U.S. Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) |
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| U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) |
U.S. Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) |
Dr. Melvin Oliver SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Science UC Santa Barbara |
Tom Shapiro Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy and Director Institute on Assets and Social Policy Brandeis University |
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Gale A. Brewer New York City Councilwoman (D-Manhattan) |
Connie Evans President and CEO Association for Enterprise Opportunity |
Dr. Paul Ong Professor School of Public Affairs and Asian American Studies UCLA |
Council Member Karin Uhlich Tucson |
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Puanani Burgess Community Development Consultant |
U.S. Representative Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) |
Dr. Manuel Pastor Director, Program for Environmental and Regional Equity University of Southern California |
Maya Wiley Founder and Executive Director Center for Social Inclusion |
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| U.S. Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) |
Bill Halter Lieutenant Governor Arkansas |
Eva Patterson President Equal Justice Society |
Robert L. Woodson, Sr. Founder and President Center for Neighborhood Enterprise |