Investing for Social Impact, Economic Justice, and Racial Equity

Dorcas R. Gilmore is assistant general counsel in the NAACP legal department, where she represents the NAACP national office and assists its more than 1,000 branches and units nationwide. In this role, she advances the NAACP's racial justice advocacy mission on issues of economic justice and provides corporate counsel. Prior to her current position, Gilmore was a Skadden Fellow and staff attorney at the Community Law Center. She created the Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative, providing a range of business and nonprofit legal services to youth-led organizations. She also directed the Small Business Legal Services Program & Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Equitable Development Project. Gilmore has represented businesses, community organizations, social ventures, and coalitions seeking to promote racial and economic equity in their communities. Gilmore has written several articles and book chapters on youth entrepreneurship legal services, community economic development, community lawyering, and law and leadership. Gilmore earned her law degree from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she was the 2004 Gilbert & Jaylee Mead Public Interest Scholar. Prior to law school, she provided workforce development training in the Dominican Republic as a part of the national government's Presidential Plan Against Poverty. Gilmore graduated magna cum laude from Rollins College with an honors bachelor of arts. Gilmore is a member of the Governing Committee of the ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law and a founding member of its Young Lawyers Network. She also serves on the board of directors of the Women's Law Center of Maryland and the Racial Justice Advisory Committee for the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. June 2013 Lisa Green Hall brings thirty years of expertise in economic justice, social impact, and community development finance. Using the tools of impact investing and philanthropy, she has served in executive roles across multiple sectors in the United States and abroad. 236 About the Editors She previously served as a Fellow and Fair Finance Lead at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation (Beeck Center). In this capacity, she was Professor of Practice and a member of the Georgetown faculty. Her area of focus at the Beeck Center was the inclusive economy. She is currently Impact Chair and a member of the leadership team for Apollo Global Management's impact investing platform and the Apollo Impact Mission (AIM) fund. In this capacity, she chairs the Advisory Committee for impact investing and partners with the investment team on impact management, strategy, and oversight of the platform. She also serves on the Investment Committee for the AIM fund. She also served as Managing Director at Anthos Asset Management, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she was based for three years. She was President and CEO of Calvert Impact Capital following her tenure as head of the investment portfolio. She served in the Clinton Administration as a policy advisor at the National Economic Council where she worked on the creation of the New Markets Tax Credit program. She currently sits on the board of Habitat for Humanity International, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Community Development Trust and was previously a member of the Investment Committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. She was also previously a member of the Board of Overseers for the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She is a graduate of the Leadership Greater Washington class of 2008 and participated in the Marshall Memorial Fellowship in 2003. She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. Susan R. Jones is a Professor of Clinical Law and the Director of the Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic at the Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics of the George Washington University Law School. The clinic represents small businesses, nonprofit organizations engaged in community economic development, and arts groups. Professor Jones has held teaching positions at CUNY-Queens Law School, where she taught courses on community economic development and economic justice as the 2004 Haywood Burns Visiting Chair in Civil Rights; at University of Maryland School of Law, where in fall 2006 she was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar; at the Vanderbilt School of Law, where in the fall of 2008 she taught a short course on Perspectives in the Contemporary Community Economic Development Movement; at American University's Washington College of Law, where she taught legal writing; and at Antioch School of Law, where she taught in an immigration law clinic. She has held numerous leadership positions in the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Association of American Law Schools. She served on the Governing Committee of the ABA Forum of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, is a past Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editor of the ABA Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, is a past co-chair of the Forum's Legal Educators' Practice Division, and is a co-founder and past co-chair of the Community Economic Development Committee of the ABA Section on Business Law. Previously, she served as a member of the ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, a Fannie Mae Foundation Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2002), and a member of Leadership Washington (1996). Currently, she serves on the board of directors of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. Professor Jones was the 2005 - 2006 Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education, a past Chair of the AALS Section on Africa, and a past Chair of the AALS Standing Committee on Clinical Legal Education and of the AALS Section on Poverty Law. Professor Jones has published numerous articles in the field of community economic development, microenterprise development, and small business, and is the author of A Legal Guide to Microenterprise Development (ABA Publishing 2004). Her research interests also include international/comparative community economic development, nonprofit organizations and charitable giving, social entrepreneurship, minority entrepreneurship, and arts and entertainment. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University and a Juris Doctor Degree and Master of Arts in teaching from Antioch School of Law. January 2010