Kansas City Fed announces 2020 Community Development Advisory Council appointments
January 30, 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 30, 2020
CONTACT: Victoria Rosengarten
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has announced five appointments to its Community Development Advisory Council (CDAC) for 2020. The council, composed of community, business and labor leaders from the Kansas City Fed’s seven-state region, advises the Bank on current developments and emerging issues in community and economic development.
New CDAC members include:
Dr. Raúl Font
President
Latino Community Development Agency
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Debbie Gorski
Executive Director
Wyoming Women’s Business Center
Laramie, Wyoming
Neelima Parasker
President and Chief Executive Officer
SnapIT Solutions
Overland Park, Kansas
Jim Reiff
Executive Director
Nebraska Enterprise Fund
Oakland, Nebraska
Adrienne R. Smith
President and Chief Executive Officer
New Mexico Caregivers Coalition
Bernalillo, New Mexico
Current and reappointed council members include:
Aubrey Abbott Patterson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hutchinson Community Foundation, Hutchinson, Kansas; Niki Donawa, Chief Community Relations Officer at Truman Medical Centers, Kansas City, Missouri; Don Greenwell, President of The Builders' Association and Executive Director, Kansas City Chapter-Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), Kansas City, Missouri; Marcos Hernandez, vice president-corporate social responsibility manager and CRA officer, U.S. Bank, Omaha, Nebraska; Rebecca Reynolds, executive director, Little Dixie Community Action Agency, Hugo, Oklahoma; Cecilia Robinson-Woods, superintendent, Millwood Public Schools, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Liddy Romero, executive director, WorkLife Partnership, Denver, Colorado; Awais Sufi, Chief Executive Officer, SchoolSmartKC, Kansas City, Missouri; Cris White, executive director and chief executive officer, Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Denver, Colorado.
Council members, who serve three-year terms, offer year-round insight on economic and community development issues and meet twice a year with the Kansas City Fed’s leadership.
As the regional headquarters of the nation’s central bank, the Kansas City Fed and its branch offices in Denver, Oklahoma City and Omaha serve the seven states of the Tenth District: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, northern New Mexico and western Missouri. Learn more about the CDAC and our other advisory councils.




