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Learn More News View All NewsJune 1, 2020WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Leaders Praise BEA Foundation Policy Agenda to Advance Black Work, Wages, And WealthRead MoreApril 21, 2020Black Economic Alliance Welcomes Rosalind Roz” Brewer to the Board of Directors March 27, 2020House and Senate Resolutions Introduced Grounded in BEA Foundation’s Policy Agenda to Advance Black Work, Wages, and Wealth Latest News View All News WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Leaders Praise BEA Foundation Policy Agenda to Advance Black Work, Wages, And Wealth Read More Black Economic Alliance Welcomes Rosalind Roz” Brewer to the Board of Directors Read More House and Senate Resolutions Introduced Grounded in BEA Foundation’s Policy Agenda to Advance Black Work, Wages, and Wealth Read More View All News Join Our Mailing List @ Black Economic Alliance Foundation Careers Privacy Policy Website by Ghm Donate Today About Overview Leadership Our Board Careers Research & Data Policy Agenda to Advance Black Work, Wages, and Wealth The Harris Poll: DE&I in Corporate America Understanding Black Americans’ Views on Work, Wages & Wealth What You Need To Know About the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit Making the Expanded Child Tax Credit Permanent and Fully Refundable Policy Focus and Research, Polls/ Surveys Data 2020 Black Economic Policy White Paper News Events BEA Solutions Summit Visit Entrepreneurs Fund CBE Contact Visit BEA Sign Up Sign-Up BEA PAC BEA Fund BEA CandidatesEric Adams Mayor, City of New York Mayor Eric Adams has served the people of New York City as an NYPD officer, State Senator, Brooklyn Borough President, and now as the 110th Mayor of the City of New York. He gave voice to a diverse coalition of working families in all five boroughs and is leading the fight to bring back New York City’s economy, reduce inequality, improve public safety, and build a stronger, healthier city that delivers for all New Yorkers. Margaret Anadu Senior Partner of Real Estate, Vistria Group Margaret Anadu is a Senior Partner at The Vistria Group where she heads Real Estate. She is based in New York City. Margaret has devoted her career to investing which not only generates strong economic returns, but importantly has a demonstrable positive impact on underserved individuals, families, and communities. Margaret is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on equitable access to capital having invested over $10 billion across hundreds of transactions throughout the United States and was named one of the most influential figures in U.S. commercial real estate by Commercial Observer. Margaret has been a trusted advisor to many senior government officials at the federal, state, and local levels on utilizing private capital to create more equitable communities. As an experienced investor and thought leader on public-private partnerships, Margaret is often asked to share her views including on CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC and Yahoo Finance. She was named to 40 Under 40 lists by Fortune, Black Enterprise and Crain’s. Prior to joining Vistria, Margaret was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where she was the Global Head of Sustainability and Impact for Asset Management and Chair of the Urban Investment Group (GSUIG), the first impact investing platform at a major U.S. financial institution and Goldman Sachs’ primary impact investing business. Under her leadership, GSUIG’s portfolio was primarily comprised of real estate with a focus on workforce, affordable, and mixed-income housing, but also included investments in community facilities, educational space, industrial facilities, green infrastructure, student loans, and small businesses. Margaret ultimately grew the business to over $2 billion of investments annually. While at Goldman Sachs, Margaret was the chief architect of the One Million Black Women investment strategy, the Firm’s $10 billion capital commitment to narrow opportunity gaps for Black women in the United States and by extension their families and broader communities. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she led a $2 billion relief effort for small businesses. In April 2022, Margaret was appointed chair of the board of directors of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. She also serves on the boards of the Low-Income Investment Fund, the Center for an Urban Future, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Africa Center. SHENA ASHLEY Vice President, Capital One Community Impact & Investment & President, Capital One Insights Center Shena Ashley, PhD became the head of programs within the Community Impact and Investment team at Capital One and President of the Insights Center and the Capital One Foundation in May 2022. In this role, she is focusing on accelerating an innovative and equity-enhancing national philanthropic strategy that is based on and integrated with the highest quality of data and evidence. Prior to starting her leadership journey in philanthropy, Dr. Ashley launched the Office of Race and Equity Research at the Urban Institute to stand as a center of excellence toward empowering race and equity consciousness throughout the field of policy research. This followed the collaborative launch of the Racial Equity Analytics Lab (REAL), an effort that brought data science and structural racism colleagues together to create data tools and methods in response to the lack of racially disaggregated data at the start of the COVID pandemic. An accomplished educator, consultant, and researcher, Dr. Ashley has been quoted as an expert thought leader on issues of philanthropy and charitable giving in several national media outlets including The Washington Post, NPR’s Marketplace, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy among others. As a nonprofit and philanthropy scholar, Dr. Ashley had the great fortune to lead the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy from 2016-2022. In that work, she led teams of researchers and strategists to build a research-in-action portfolio focused on community investing, equitable grantmaking, democratizing charitable giving, and nonprofit and philanthropic policy. Her passion for democratizing data led her to transform the National Center on Charitable Statistics to an open-data repository, which now makes decades of nonprofit data freely accessible to the public. Dr. Ashley holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Georgia Tech and Georgia State University, a MPP from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor’s degree from Tennessee State University, a HBCU in Nashville, TN. PLINIO AYALA President & CEO, Per Scholas Per Scholas is led by President and CEO Plinio Ayala. Plinio was born and raised in the South Bronx, just as it grew into a national emblem for urban poverty and disinvestment. His experience instilled a lifelong passion for creating economic opportunity, and shortly after graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in American Studies, he devoted his career to building win-win” solutions to social...