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