Neighborhood
These experts, hailing from diverse fields, will be sharing their invaluable insights, experiences, and strategies to drive impactful change. Keep an eye on this space to discover the voices that will inspire, challenge, and lead the conversations at our event!
Stephanie Swepson Twitty
CEO | Eagle Market Sts Dev Corp, CDC Community Economic Developer, Nonprofit Governance and Management Professional, with 30+ years in banking, finance, accounting and small business development.
Leslie Payne
Initiative Director | James Irvine Foundation
Leslie leads the Better Careers Initiative at the James Irvine Foundation, a portfolio that focuses on supporting job training and access organizations in their work advancing racial equity and quality jobs. She is passionate about shared ownership models as a way of advancing Irvine’s North Star of ensuring low-wage Californians have the power to advance economically.
Lisa Greenwood
President & CEO | Texas Methodist Foundation and Wesleyan Impact Partners
Rev. Greenwood is the president and chief executive officer of Texas Methodist Foundation. For over 30 years, Rev. Greenwood has been a change-maker within ministry and faith communities, empowering leaders through learning and innovation and promoting congregational growth. She regularly speaks and facilitates national conversations creating cultures of purpose, generosity, and courage in the church. Rev. Greenwood is co-creator and host of the nationally distributed Igniting Imagination podcast.
David Erickson Ph.D.
SVP and Head of Community Development | Federal Reserve Bank of New York David Erickson is senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he has convened thousands of experts to be speakers at conferences and authors in a series of books on how community development finance can work with other social investors to create more opportunities in low-income communities. Key to this strategy is to create new alliances with sectors that previously did not work with community and economic development efforts: health, climate adaptation, household financial wellbeing, art and artists, faith communities, and others. He is the author of Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods and more recently, The Fifth Freedom: Guaranteeing an Opportunity-Rich Childhood for All.
Chuck Mahron
President | Strong Towns Charles Marohn, known as “Chuck” to friends and colleagues, is the founder and president of Strong Towns. He is a civil engineer and a land use planner with decades of experience, holding a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning, both from the University of Minnesota.