Doria Robinson
As Executive Director of Urban Tilth, Doria Robinson is helping her community of Richmond, California to build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system.
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Terence Patterson wants to bring the “Memphis Sound” to Main Street
Terence Patterson is President and CEO of the Downtown Memphis Commission, and is using his diverse background in corporate finance, corporate law, and education policy to lead the effort of making Downtown Memphis a better place to work, live, learn, invest, and visit.
Brandan “Bmike” Odums
Brandan "Bmike" Odums is a filmmaker and artist whose current solo exhibition space, Studio BE, educates New Orleans youth on powerful figures and important moments in Black history and the civil rights movement.
Judy Reese Morse
In the wake of two catastrophic environmental disasters, the City of New Orleans has an eye on racial equity and Deputy Mayor Judy Reese Morse is leading the charge.
Tayyib Smith
Tayyib Smith is the co-founder of Philadelphia-based Little Giant Creative, Pipeline Philly, the Institute of Hip-Hop Entrepreneurship, and the soon-to-launch Creative Cities Lab. All of his projects are rooted in a passion for social justice and economic equitability.
Pamela Lewis
Pamela Lewis is the Director of the Detroit-based New Economy Initiative, the largest philanthropically led economic development initiative in the United States.
Maitreyi Roy
Maitreyi Roy is the Executive Director of Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia. A landscape architect by training, she has spent almost 25 years looking at community greening issues through the lens of urban development.
Alfa Demmellash
Alfa Demmellash is the CEO and co-founder of Rising Tide Capital, a nonprofit organization that builds communities of self-sustaining entrepreneurs by focusing on knowledge and social capital.
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.
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.
