Reverend
Dennis Dillon
Reverend Dennis Dillon is Pastor of the Brooklyn Christian Center
and initiator of Black Church Means Business Conference. As the pioneer
and publisher of The New York Christian Times, he has worked to lead one
of the largest Black homeownership initiatives in the country, guiding
more than ten thousand people to become home owners since 1992. Noted
for challenging and negotiating with corporations and banking institutions
to reinvest hundreds of millions of dollars in the Black community. He
sits on the boards of a number of corporate and not-for-profit organizations,
and has developed successful concepts and programs that embrace community
economic empowerment.
Ruth
Goldstein
Ruth Goldstein has been a community activist since moving to
her Fort Greene neighborhood in 1970; Fort Greene Association Board Member
for most of its 36 years, Chair during struggle for neighborhood Landmark
designation. Ruth has served on a number of boards including the Brownstone
Revival Coalition, Preservation Volunteers, and was a founding board member
of the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project. She was the founding chair
of the Fort Greene Park Conservancy ( FGPC) and is currently chairing
the FGPC’s Martyrs’ Monument Centennial Committee -- a three
day international commemoration event in 2008.
Jezra
Kaye
Jezra Kaye has been a Prospect Heights resident since 1981, and
is a founding Steering Committee member of Develop Don’t Destroy
Brooklyn, and worked as a full-time volunteer on DDDB’s public relations
efforts for its first three years. Jezra is a speaker coach and speechwriter
with 18 years of corporate and non-profit communications experience and
she is President of Communicate with Power and Ease, working with business,
professional and non-profit clients; formerly a creative director/writer
charged with creating major internal meetings for Fortune 500 companies.
Bob
Law
Bob Law is a Brooklyn native, community activist, radio innovator
and entrepreneur. Served as VP of programming at New York’ s WWRL
radio for 3 years, and was host of Night Talk, for 20 years, the nations
first Nationally Broadcast Daily Black radio talk show. Bob founded the
Namaskar Capital Assistance Program which developed and managed a loan
program for Black owned small businesses; he is the owner of Namaskar,
Bob Law’ s Health and Wellness Shop, and Bob Law s Seafood CafÈ,
both in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Bob is active as one of the principle
PowerNomics organizers, a campaign for economic development for Black
America and he is currently Chairman of the board of The Queens New York
based Black Spectrum Theatre.
Ron
Shiffman
Ron Shiffman is a professor at the Graduate Center for Planning
and the Environment at the Pratt Institute, director emeritus of the Pratt
Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development, and from
1990-96 was a commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission. He
has received numerous awards from community based organizations, national
advocacy groups including local and national awards from ADPSR [Architects,
Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility], the local chapters
of the AIA and AICP, the Municipal Art Society. He has been a member of
the American Institute of Certified Planners [AICP] since May 1985 and
in April 2002 became a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
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