The Gamaliel Foundation
and
the NLA Board welcome these Allies to the 2002 NLA:

“Eyes on the Prize: Coalitions to Win Metropolitan Equity”

 
Let us join together to fight for social, economic, and political equity across entrenched spatial and racial boundaries.”

Government Officials

Missouri State Senator Joan Bray, 2nd Senatorial District of Missouri, the main ally for equitable public transportation funding, and metro equity policies in Missouri legislature.  

Attorney Jerry Schlichter, author of a major metro equity policy--tax credits for distressed communities--passed by the Missouri legislature, defended by MCU.   

Roma Thurin, City Council member, City of Saginaw, MI
Terry Pruitt, Chair, Governmental Relations Task Force, Saginaw Vision 2020

Funders

Carl Anthony, Ford Foundation
Christine Doby, Mott Foundation
Sandra Jibrell, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Jim McHale, Katie Fitzgerald, and Caroline Carpenter, W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Peter Edelman, Public Welfare Foundation
Renee Brereton, and Fr. Robert Vitello, Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Sr. Linda Hayes, Dominican Sister of Springfield, IL 
Russell G. Taylor and Tyrone Spann, E. Chicago Community Development. Foundation, Inc., E. Chicago, IN

Bill Dempsey, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock
Nancy Fishman, Grand Victoria Foundation, Elgin, IL  
Leslie Ramyk, Chicago Community Organizing Capacity Building Initiative
Dr. Ricardo A. Millett and Jeff Pinzino, Woods Fund of Chicago     

Jesus Leon, the Funders’ Network
 

Labor and Jobs

Eliseo Medina, Executive VP, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Marilee Millstein, Deputy Director of the AFL-CIO for the Northeast

John Goldstein the President of the AFL-CIO for Wisconsin  

Benetta Johnson, Executive Director, Alameda Corridor Jobs Project, Los Angeles, CA

Daniel Ellerson, Alameda Corridor Jobs Project, Los Angeles, CA

Mary K. Ochs, Public Policy Field Organizer, Center for Community Change, Los Angeles, CA. 

A founder of the National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support, Rivera

Cate Poe, AFL-CIO, NJ State Director, Jubilee Interfaith Organization, NJ

Religious Leaders

Bishop Joseph Imesch - Joliet Diocese

Bishop Paul Landahl, Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Church in America (ELCA).

Immigration

Royal Berg Immigration Attorney  

Fessahaye Mebrahtu with the Pan African Organization
Candido Morales - President of Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior

Mexican Consul Meza from Michigan  

Mexican Consul Sada from Illinois

 

Metropolitan Equity

Keith Laughlin, Rails To Trials, Washington, D.C. Friday only.  Clinton-Gore Administration, and Chaired Sustainable Communities.

Jon A. Broadway, PH.D.,P.E., Auburn University, Montgomery Transportation Project,  Montgomery, Alabama

Julie Forest, Central Vermont Council on Aging

Nancy Jakowitsch, Director of Policy Development, Surface Transportation Policy Project

Rich Stolz, Center for Community Change, Transportation Equity Network, Deputy Director of Policy

Other Allies are listed in the program as speakers.