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Pete
C. Garcia, Board Chair Mr.
Garcia is President of Chicanos Por La Causa, a statewide community development
corporation headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, which operates numerous
community initiatives and is one of the country’s largest Hispanic nonprofit
organizations. A tireless worker for community development, he has lectured
in the U.K., sharing his extensive experience in housing, social service
delivery, and economic development to assist in community empowerment
efforts in England, Wales and Ireland. Mr. Garcia serves on the Board
of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, the National Coalition
for Community Reinvestment, and on numerous local boards and commissions.
In 2001, he was selected from a national pool of nominees as one of six
James Johnson Fellows by the FannieMae Foundation. This designation honors
community development profess-sionals for lifelong achievement in their
efforts to provide safe, affordable housing for American families. Mr.
Garcia is Mexican-American.
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Peter
Beard, Vice-Chair Peter
Beard is the FannieMae Foundation's Senior Vice President of Knowledge
Access and Technology Strategy. Mr. Beard oversees the Foundation's information
and technology strategy work, its activities that respond to the information
needs of its partners and develop new tools that will disseminate the
Foundation's knowledge and information. Since 1994, he has served in various
capacities at the Foundation, such as directing the Foundation's national
grant making program, its regional offices, and its strategies for homeowner
education and counseling. Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Beard served
from 1988 to 1993 as the general counsel to Habitat for Humanity International
in Americus, GA. He received his A.B in Economics from Davidson College
and his J.D. from Syracuse University.
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Richard
Isoldi Mr.
Isoldi joined the RDFC board in March of 2001. He is a Vice President
in the Community Development Group for J.P. Morgan Chase Bank in Houston,
Texas, where his current responsibilities include small business lending
programs that target women, minorities and businesses located in low to
moderate-income areas. He also manages relationships with community development
financial intermediaries in Texas that offer loans to small businesses.
Mr. Isoldi has over 17 years of banking experience in lending and problem
loan workout. He is originally from New York.
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Sherrie
P. Pugh Ms.
Pugh is the Executive Director of the Northside Residents Economic Development
Council, a community development corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
An African-American, she has over 20 years of hands-on experience in organizing,
managing, and supporting non-profit community development corporations.
Her work history includes stints as the Senior Program Manager of Economic
Development for the Foundation for the Mid-South, located in Jackson,
Mississippi, and Community Builder with the U.S. Department of Housing
& Urban Development. She also served as Executive Director of the
California Community Economic Development Association.
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Dr.
Bárbara J. Robles Dr.
Robles joined the RDFC Board in July of 2004. She is currently an Associate
Professor at Arizona State University, Center for Community Development
& Civil Rights and Department of Public Programs. She received her
doctorate in Economics from the University of Maryland-College Park with
concentrations in Econometrics and Monetary Policy. Her research focuses
on Microenterprise along the US-Mexico Border, credit and loan accessibility
issues in US manufacturing, women’s status in the US economy, and women
and minority small business and micro-enterprise activities. During her
tenure at UT-Austin, Dr. Robles co-founded the Latino Financial Issues
Program and currently serves as National Faculty Director for the program.
She is a member of the Hispanic Business, Inc., Board of Economists and
has consulted for the US AID Legislative Strengthening Initiatives in
El Salvador and Guatemala and the State Department. Dr. Robles, who is
Mexican American, was born and raised in rural South Texas.
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Louis
R.
Escareño Mr.
Escareño, who joined the RDFC board in 2005, is an Attorney at Law in
San Antonio, Texas. He received his Doctorate in Jurisprudence from the
University of Houston Law Center and a Masters of Public Administration
from Harvard University. Among his extensive experience in community and
legal affairs, Mr. Escareño is the former President of the San Antonio
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, served as Special Assistant to the Attorney
General of the State of Texas, and served as Director of Federal Relations
at the Office of the Mayor of Houston. Mr. Escareño co-founded the Movimiento
Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) as an undergraduate student at the
University of Pennsylvania. A recipient of many awards for his dedication
to the community, including the Government Hispanic Business Advocate
of the Year, Mr. Escareño has continued to be actively involved in Latino
community advocacy and development issues. Mr. Escareño, who is Mexican-American,
was born and reared in San Antonio, Texas.
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