Our Team
Meet the team of community development and financial service experts who are leading one of the nation’s most respected community development financial institutions and community development credit unions.
Hope Enterprise Corporation
Ivye Allen
Nonprofit Leader
Claiborne Barksdale
Attorney & Educator
Dr. Marc Barnes
United Negro College Fund
Anne Marie Burgoyne
Emerson Collective
Mauricio Calvo
Latino Memphis
Susannah Carrier
Private Investor & Board Member
Bishop Ronnie C. Crudup
New Horizon Church International
Rebecca Dixon
National Employment Law Project
Robert L. Gibbs
Gibbs Travis, PLLC
Carolyn Gill-Jefferson
Attorney
Herschell Hamilton
BLOC Global Group
Maurice Jones
MJConnects
Kendra Key
Regions Bank
Dan Letendre
Bank of America
Blanche Lincoln
Lincoln Policy Group
Felecia Lucky
Black Belt Community Foundation
Fred Miller
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
Jeffrey Nolan
Loutre Land and Timber Company
Aisha Nyandoro
Springboard to Opportunities
Judy Reese-Morse
Urban League of Louisiana
H. Alexander Wise
Retired Nonprofit Leader
Hope Credit Union
Ivye Allen
Nonprofit Leader
Bill Bynum
HOPE
Mauricio Calvo
Latino Memphis
Virgil Dexter Doyne
Doyne Construction Company, Inc.
Robert L. Gibbs
Gibbs Travis, PLLC
Carolyn Gill-Jefferson
Attorney
Alice Graham
Retired Nonprofit Leader
David Jackson
Community Development Consultant
Rica Lewis-Payton
Healthcare Executive
Bernard Mays, Jr.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Brenda Richard-Montgomery
JNM & Associates, LLC
Ann Shackelford
Teach for America – Greater Delta
Carol Spencer
Retired Clergy
Emily Trenholm
High Ground News
Carmen Walker
Retired Educator