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Janie Barrera (2023)
Janie Barrera is the founding president and former CEO of LiftFund, formerly known as Accion Texas. Barrera was responsible for the organization’s financial management, oversight of its annual budget, and the development of methodology and loan delivery procedures. She received several accolades for her accomplishments, which include the Small Business Administration Financial Services Advocate of…
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Guacolda Reyes (2022)
Ashton Jeffers
Guacolda Reyes is the Chief Real Estate Development Officer at The Resurrection Project (TPR) in Chicago, IL. Growing up in Santiago, Chile, Guacolda studied social work at university before continuing to do community work and advocacy in Chile. She moved to the Pilsen area in Chicago for school, which later introduced her to a developing…
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Joe Eddie Lopez and Rosie Lopez (2022)
Ashton Jeffers
Joe Eddie Lopez is a former member of the Arizona State Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives. He is known for his political work and activism efforts during the Chicano Movement in the 1960s in Arizona. He is also one of the founding members of the CDC, Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC), helping organize…
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Noel Poyo (2023)
Ashton Jeffers
Noel Poyo served as the Executive Director of NALCAB from 2006 to 2021, helping lead the national organization of Latino-led nonprofits that serve communities around the United States. He advocated nationally on behalf of the NALCAB membership as well as for low-income Latino and immigrant communities. Over 12 years, he led the development of NALCAB’s…
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Tommy Espinoza (2022)
Ashton Jeffers
Tommy Espinoza is the former president and CEO of Raza Development Fund with a history of working in nonprofit organizations, specializing in financial services, credit analysis, social impact, and business development. Tommy started as a carpenter volunteering with Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC) where Ronnie Lopez hired him to assist with CPLC’s housing program. His…
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John Echeveste (2022)
Ashton Jeffers
John Echeveste is a founding partner of VPE Public Relations based in South Pasadena, California, and former communications director of The East Los Angeles Community Union (TELACU). John first became acquainted with TELACU as a young newspaper reporter who interviewed David Lizárraga and the organization’s work during the 1970s. Recruited by David, John managed the…
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David Lizárraga (2022)
Ashton Jeffers
Dr. David C. Lizárraga is the former president of The East Los Angeles Community Union (TELACU) in Los Angeles California and the founder of the TELACU business model of generating a double bottom line– profitability along with generating social impact for the community. David Lizárraga previously served as the Chairman of the United States Hispanic…
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Alexander Von Hoffman (2020)
Victoria Villaseñor
Dr. Alexander Von Hoffman is a professor at Harvard University who has dedicated his academic career researching the history of Community Development Corporations (CDC’s) across the United States since the late 1960s. The NALCAB research team reached out to Dr. Von Hoffman at the beginning of this project to gain a better understanding of the…
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Raúl Raymundo (2021)
Victoria Villaseñor
Raúl Raymundo is a founder and Executive Director of the Resurrection Project in Chicago, Illinois and a board member of the National Association of Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB). Raúl is a devout catholic and uses his religious philosophy to develop housing, public, and immigration services for the Resurrection Project. Interview 1 (March 5, 2021)…
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Arabella MartÃnez (2020)
Victoria Villaseñor
Arabella MartÃnez is the first Executive Director of the Spanish Speaking Unity Council in Oakland, California. MartÃnez is a graduate of the University of California in Los Angeles and has spent her career uplifting Latino communities through social services and comprehensive economic plans. This is the third recording in a series of oral histories with…
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