Welcome Everyone! Game Changing Advancement in Fostering Access to Opportunity: HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule Moderator: Amy Kenyon– Program Officer, Equitable Development, Ford Foundation Speakers: Kalima Rose, Senior Director of the Center for Infrastructure Equity, PolicyLink Gary Cunningham, Metropolitan Council, Twin Cities Gustavo Valesquez, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity | HUD Diedre Swesnik, Program Officer, Equality Fund, Open Society Foundation
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Amy Kenyon works on the EquitableDevelopment team. She has focused onreforming the rules that shape regionaldevelopment in US metropolitan areas inorder to expand economic opportunitiesfor low-income people. Her grant makinghas supported integrated approaches toequitable development, throughimproving access to permanentlyaffordable housing and transit choicesand deepening community engagement inland use planning processes.
Kalima Rose, works with diverse leadership to steerresources for transportation, housing, climate justiceand cultural amenities to communities of opportunity.Kalima helps groups win and implement federal, state,and local resources for greater workforce participation,accessibility, and new investments that serve low-income communities and communities of color. TheCenter drives the organization’s regional equity, fairhousing, and new infrastructure investments thatstrengthen economic resilience. Kalima led theorganization’s Gulf Coast recovery work to shape amore equitable post-Katrina rebuilding of New Orleansand Louisiana. With three decades of economic,housing, and land-use policy expertise, she created thePolicyLink Equitable Development Toolkit, an onlineresource that highlights best social equity practices.Kalima has a degree in narratives and culture from theUniversity of California, Berkeley, and loves to supportthriving expressions of arts and culture to inspire racialequity across America.
DrivingEquityOutcomes:FairHousingAssessments
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau; Woods & Poole Economics, Inc.
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Leading the nation in demographic change
Source: U.S. Census Bureau; Woods & Poole Economics, Inc.
He was nominated by President Obama andconfirmed by the United States Senate tobecome Assistant Secretary for Fair Housingand Equal Opportunity at the U.S. Departmentof Housing and Urban Development. Prior tohis nomination, Velasquez was ExecutiveDirector of the Latino Economic DevelopmentCenter (LEDC), a non-for-profit organizationbased in Washington, DC dedicated to servethousands of Latinos and other immigrantsand underserved populations gain thenecessary skills and capital to start andmaintain their own businesses. LEDC alsoadvocates for and supports communities tosecure affordable and accessible housing.
Cunningham is President and CEO of theMetropolitan Economic DevelopmentAssociation (MEDA), which providesassistance to businesses owned andmanaged by entrepreneurs of colornationwide. He previously served as VicePresident and Chief Program Officer for theNorthwest Area Foundation, which focuseson supporting organizations to reducepoverty and achieve sustainable prosperityin an eight-state region (2007-2014). Heheld leadership roles with the U.S.Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment, the Massachusetts TurnpikeAuthority, and the City of Minneapolis.