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Appendix C: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 51-62

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... Strategy and Ordinance. Richmond's HiAP implementation is a collaborative effort with city staff, institutional partners, communitybased organizations, and Richmond residents to achieve health equity within the city.
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... She is the urban design director of the East Region in the city of Detroit Planning Department. She manages a team responsible for planning and implementing neighborhood development and open space ­projects in Council Districts 3 and 4.
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... , where she led a number of large-scale impact investing policy initiatives, including with the UK Cabinet Office and World Economic Forum, among others. Before working with PCV, she was a program director at Capital Impact Partners, a national community development financial institution, where she launched what is now the national Grounded Solutions Network for affordable homeownership.
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... Franklin is currently the executive chair of the board of directors of Purpose Built Communities and the former Barbara Jordan Visiting Professor in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She was elected the first African American woman mayor of a major southern city in 2002 and served two terms as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, until 2009.
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... Othello H Meadows III, J.D., is a native of Omaha, Nebraska, and currently serves as the executive director of the Seventy Five North Revitali­ zation Corporation, a community revitalization and development organization.
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... . Justin Garrett Moore, M.S., M.Arch., is an urban designer and the executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission.
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... Building on the framework developed during the revitalization of Atlanta's East Lake neighborhood, Purpose Built Communities works with local leaders to help them plan, implement, and sustain h ­ olistic neighborhood revitalization initiatives that create healthy neighborhoods that include broad, deep, and permanent pathways to prosperity for low income families. For 7 years leading up to the creation of Purpose Built Communities, she served as the executive director of the East Lake Foundation, the inno vative nonprofit organization that serves as the "community quarterback organization" for the East Lake neighborhood.
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... Raab has been responsible for raising more than $400 million in philanthropic support for Hunter College. Her major accomplishments include the renovation and reopening of the historic Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt House, which is now the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, and the construction of a $131 million home in East Harlem for Hunter College's renowned School of Social Work.
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... The work of Spirit for Change takes many forms, including serving as the lead consultant to the Knight Foundation on the national R ­ eimagining the Civic Commons demonstration and Public
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... Ross has more than 18 years of multi-sector experience, including past senior leadership roles as the vice president of community and national initiatives at the Knight Foundation; the deputy assistant secretary for policy development in the Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; the executive director of the Urban Land Institute's Terwilliger Center for Housing; the chief operating officer for the National Housing Conference and the Center for Housing Policy; and the manager of the planning advisory service at the American Planning Association (APA)
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... His efforts as an elected official have been instrumental in bringing new clinics to medically underserved areas in House District 140 and building the East Aldine Town Center, which includes the BakerRipley campus, the Harris County 911 Call Center, and eventually a campus of Lone Star College– North Harris. Representative Walle is currently a member of the House Committee on Appropriations, serving as the vice-chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Article III (public and higher education)
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... He is also a member of the House Democratic Caucus, Women's Health Caucus, and LGBTQ Caucus. Before Representative Walle was elected to the Texas House, he served on the staffs of multiple elected officials, including Congressman Gene Green and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, where he led different community projects, including Immunization Day, Paying for College workshops, and senior citizen issue forums.


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