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THE COLOR OF WEALTH
Brief biographies of co-authors

Meizhu Lui is the Executive Director of United for a Fair Economy. She is a co-author of UFE’s  report, “The State of the Dream 2005: Disowned in the Ownership Society,” and co-editor of The Wealth Inequality Reader (Dollars and Sense, 2004). She was a rank and file union activist for 15 years in a workplace that was 40% African American, 20% Latino and 40% white. She organized in Boston’s communities of color to build a coalition that challenged wealthy hospitals to provide more benefits to low-income residents. Read more >

Bárbara Robles teaches community economics at Arizona State University. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park, and taught Latino public policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. Previously she was an economist/revenue estimator for the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation. Her many publications include Latina Microenterprises and the U.S.-Mexico Border Economy. She currently sits on the Board of Economic Advisors for the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and is a board member of United for a Fair Economy. Read more >

Betsy Leondar-Wright has been United for a Fair Economy’s Communications Director for nine years. A long time economic justice organizer and researcher, she is the author of Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists (New Society Publishers, 2005.) She is a co-author of UFE’s report, “The State of the Dream 2005: Disowned in the Ownership Society,” and co-editor of The Wealth Inequality Reader (Dollars and Sense, 2004). Read more >

Rose M. Brewer , PhD, is Professor and Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of African American & African Studies at the University of Minnesota and a contributing editor to Souls, journal of the Columbia Institute for Contemporary Black History. She authored “A Critical Sociology of African Americans, the U.S. Welfare State, and Neoliberalism in the Era of Corporate Globalization,” in Race and Ethnicity Across Time and Space (2004), a Choice Annual Outstanding Academic Title for 2006. She co-edited Bridges of Power: Women’s Multicultural Alliances (1990). She is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics. She was a long-time United for a Fair Economy board member and is on the board of Project South. She is a founding member and a coordinating committee member of the Black Radical Congress. Read more >

Rebecca Adamson , a Cherokee, is Founder and President Emeritus of First Nations Development Institute (1980) and Founder and President of First Peoples Worldwide (1997).  She has worked directly with grassroots tribal communities and nationally as an advocate of local tribal issues since 1970. In addition, she has led the way in the private sector in re-connecting capital markets and communities. She is a trustee of the Calvert Social Investment Funds, and in that capacity she initiated the only investment product whereby investors could invest directly in low-income communities. These investments, called “community notes,” have brought over $689 million into affordable housing, small businesses, and micro-finance. Read more >

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