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.He is a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, where, for morethan ten years, he has taught quantitative research methods.CHESTER HARTMAN is director of research for the Poverty & Race Re-search Action Council in Washington, D.C.(where he served as foundingexecutive director from 1990 to 2003) and adjunct professor in the De- About the Editor and Contributors 235partment of Sociology at George Washington University.Prior to taking hispresent positions, he was a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Wash-ington and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.He has written 17books; published in a wide variety of social science and law journals, in-cluding The Nation, Journal of the American Planning Association, andUniversity of Wisconsin Law Review; and served or is serving on the edi-torial boards of several scholarly publications, including Journal of UrbanAffairs, Housing Policy Debate, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Housing Studies,and Journal of Negro Education.He has also served as a board member ofthe National Low Income Housing Coalition and as a consultant to nu-merous public and private agencies, including HUD, the U.S.Civil RightsCommission, Stanford Research Institute, Arthur D.Little, California RuralLegal Assistance, the Urban Coalition, the California Department of Hous-ing and Community Development, and the Legal Aid Society of New York.MAUDE HURD has been the national president of ACORN since 1990,and a member of Boston ACORN s Dorchester United since 1982, servingas its co-chair.In her role as ACORN national president, an elected, non-paying position, Hurd has both led local and national campaigns to winjustice for low-income families, and developed and mentored hundreds ofgrassroots community leaders.Hurd lives in Dorchester, Massachusetts,where she works as a substance-abuse prevention specialist at the MedicalFoundation.Under her leadership, ACORN has become a critical force incampaigns for economic and racial justice across the country, and hasgrown to over 150,000 member families in 65 cities.MATTHEW LEE is a community activist and public interest lawyer.Hefounded Inner City Press/Community on the Move (ICP), a community or-ganization, in the South Bronx of New York City in 1987.ICP s Commu-nity Reinvestment Act advocacy has resulted in four new bank branches,and $200 million in new lending commitments, in the South Bronx.ICP sbroader CRA challenges have resulted in over $10 billion in new lendingand consumer protection commitments.Lee is the author of Predatory Ben-der: Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City (2004); he has written for pub-lications including U.S.Banker, the New York Times, Newsday and theAmsterdam News.Since 1997, he has engaged in advocacy against preda-tory lending, including beyond the United States, using human rights laws,through the Fair Finance Watch project.PATRICIA A.McCOY is a professor at the University of ConnecticutSchool of Law and a member of the law school s Insurance Law Center.Before entering academe in 1992, she was partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe& Maw in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in complex securities,banking, and commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels.A noted 236 About the Editor and Contributorsauthority on federal banking law and mortgage lending, she is author ofBanking Law Manual: Federal Regulation of Financial Holding Compa-nies, Banks and Thrifts (2nd ed.2000) and editor of Financial Modern-ization After Gramm-Leach-Bliley (2002).Professor McCoy has served onthe Consumer Advisory Council of the Board of Governors of the FederalReserve, as well as on the board of directors of the Insurance MarketplaceStandards Association.In 2001, she was chair of the Section on FinancialInstitutions and Consumer Financial Services of the Association of Ameri-can Law Schools.CLARENCE PAGE has been a columnist and member of the editorialboard of the Chicago Tribune since 1984.His commentary on social, eco-nomic, and political issues is syndicated to over 200 newspapers nation-wide.A lifelong journalist and author, he is the author of several books,including Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity (1996);he has published articles in Chicago Magazine, Chicago Reader,Washington Monthly, New Republic, Wall Street Journal, and New YorkNewday; and serves as a panelist/commentator for news programs, in-cluding  The McLauglin Group, BET s  Lead Story, ABC s  This Week,and National Public Radio s  Weekend Sunday. A recipient of the 1989Pulitzer Prize for commentary, he was inducted into the Chicago Journal-ism Hall of Fame in 1992.CAMELLIA PHILLIPS is ACORN s assistant director of development.Phillips has worked with ACORN since 2001, helping community orga-nizers around the country raise funds for projects ranging from community-based childhood lead poisoning prevention programs to anti-predatorylending and fair-housing projects.Previously, she worked in various ca-pacities with the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights andthe Whatcom County Youth Empowerment Co-op.JOHN P.RELMAN is the director of Relman & Associates, PLLC, a pub-lic interest law firm in Washington, D.C., specializing in civil rights litiga-tion.From 1989 to 1999, he headed the Fair Housing Project at theWashington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.Mr.Relman s better-known cases include Timus v.William J.Davis, Inc.($2.4 million jury ver-dict for housing discrimination); Dyson v.Denny s Restaurants ($17.725million race discrimination class settlement); Pugh v.Avis Rent-A-Car ($5.4million class settlement); and Gilliam v.Adam s Mark Hotels ($2.1 millionclass settlement).Mr.Relman is the author of Housing DiscriminationPractice Manual, and teaches public interest law at Georgetown UniversityLaw Center.He has written and lectured extensively in the areas of fair-housing and fair-lending law and practice, and has conducted numeroustraining classes and seminars for plaintiffs lawyers, fair-housing organiza- About the Editor and Contributors 237tions, the real estate industry, and lending institutions.He received his lawdegree from the University of Michigan and his undergraduate degree fromHarvard University.CHRISTOPHER A.RICHARDSON is an economist in the Housing andCivil Enforcement Section of the Department of Justice s Civil Rights Di-vision.He contributed to this book while he was a senior research fellowat the Center for Responsible Lending, the nonprofit affiliate of the Self-Help Credit Union, a community development lender that has providedmore than $2.5 billion in financing to over 25,000 home buyers, small busi-nesses, and nonprofit organizations.Previously, Richardson was a staffeconomist in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation s Division of Re-search and Statistics (now the Division of Insurance and Research).Richardson has published research on predatory lending and the Commu-nity Reinvestment Act in Housing Policy Debate and Fordham Urban LawJournal [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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