Board of Directors

Leigh Phillips, Board Chair
Program Manager, Bank on San Francisco
Leigh Phillips is the Manager of the San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment, and the flagship Bank On San Francisco program – the first city-wide initiative designed to bring “unbanked” and “underbanked” residents into the financial mainstream. She has worked for Treasurer José Cisneros in the Office of the Treasurer since December 2004. She previously managed the successful two-year pilot of the City’s “Working Families Credit” program, a local match to the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Prior to working for the City and County of San Francisco, Ms. Phillips worked in development and fundraising at the University of California, San Francisco. She received both her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Social Sciences and a Masters of Economic and Social Sciences in Women’s Studies from the University of Manchester.

Orson Aguilar
Executive Director, Greenlining Institute
Orson Aguilar has a diverse experience serving non-profit organizations in housing, economic development, youth training, and public policy issues. Mr. Aguilar has been instrumental in developing Greenlining’s Fair Growth and Sustainable Development Program that seeks to ensure that all residents benefit from California’s ever-changing growth and economy.   Mr. Aguilar has presented at several conferences, hearings and forums, on a diverse array of issues that include the environment, economic development, energy, philanthropy, housing, and banking. Mr. Aguilar was recently elected to the University of California at Santa Cruz alumni council.  Mr. Aguilar received a Masters Degree at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.  He was born and raised in East Los Angeles.

Olivia Calderón
Legislative Director, New America Foundation
Olivia Calderon is the California Legislative Director of the New America Foundation. Based in Los Angeles and Sacramento, she helps California lawmakers hammer out laws to improve the welfare of California residents. Ms. Calderon has a distinguished career shaping and advancing innovative policies to bring economic and social justice to disenfranchised and low-income communities. She has drafted over two dozen major pieces of legislation, four of which were signed into law, including bills to expand the rights of returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. She is a founding member of Step Up California, and a member of Emerge California and Hispanas Organized for Political Equality. Previously, Ms. Calderon served in the California Legislature as a consultant to the Assembly Transportation Committee, as a senior legislative assistant to the late California State Senator Jenny Oropeza, and as a Jesse Unruh Assembly Fellow. Ms. Calderon is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of California, Los Angeles. She also studied at the American University in Cairo as a National Security Education Program scholar.

Paul Correa
Owner of CorLand Consulting
Paul Correa is an accomplished land planning professional with a ten-year record of success in all phases of the development process.  His experience encompasses urban in-fill, mixed use, and residential development across the San Francisco bay area.  He is skilled in project management, site acquisition & site analysis, permit processing, plan and zoning code review and community outreach.  He is also skilled at dealing with diverse constituencies, public agencies, neighborhood groups coupled with a strong ability to deal with complex issues, analyzing problems, formulating common sense decisions and consensus building.  He is highly knowledgeable of zoning and planning regulations / processes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and has vast relationships with organized labor and other key stakeholders such as affordable housing builders, community banking industry, market-rate residential builders and elected officials. Paul received his Masters of Education with an emphasis in Administration, Policy & Social Planning at Harvard University and a Masters in City & Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley.

My Do
City of Daly City, Economic & Community Development Department
Ms. Do has experience in economic & community development working in the private, public, and non-profit sectors.  She analyzes demographic data as well as real estate market information for the city of Daly City’s Economic & Community Development Department, and collaborates with non-profit organizations, city agencies, and legislators to develop appropriate city policies.

Karoleen Feng
Project Manager, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
Ms. Feng has worked with the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation’s real estate development division by managing the process of community acceptance, financing, planning and zoning approval.  She has developed a comprehensive community outreach, marketing and sales plan that ensures homebuyers receive substantial pre- and post- purchase homeownership education.

Jenny C. Flores
Senior Vice-president & Community Development Director, Northern California, Citi
Jenny Flores serves as the Community Development Director for Citi in Northern California.  She is responsible for managing the company’s Community Reinvestment Act program and for ensuring that low-income and underserved communities within her marketplace have access to Citi’s financial services and products.  Prior to her position with Citi, Jenny served as the Executive Director of the Congress of California Seniors, a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to assisting seniors and low-income families with issues of health care, affordable housing, transportation, technology and consumer protection.  She also has extensive experience in strategic initiatives and legislative affairs through her position with the Greenlining Institute and her work in the California State Legislature.  She is currently on the Board of Juma Ventures, a San Francisco based non-profit dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty by ensuring that young people complete a four-year college education and on the Regional Advisory Committee for the United Way of the Bay Area.  Jenny earned a degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently pursuing her MBA at the FW Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College in Boston.

Susan Harper
Senior Vice President, CDFI Lending and Investing, Bank of America
Susan Harper is a Senior Vice President, CDFI Lending and Investing, for Bank of America in San Francisco, CA. In this capacity, she manages the bank’s activities with Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) in California, the Mountain West and other areas that finance housing, small businesses, and community facilities, providing health care, education, childcare and other needed social services. Bank of America is the largest CDFI investor nationally, with over $1 billion in loans, lines of credit and program related investments with CDFIs. Prior to joining Bank of America, Ms. Harper was Vice President of the Merrill Lynch Community Development Company in its San Francisco, CA office. Ms. Harper received a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelors degree, cum laude, in Spanish and History from Williams College.

Jabari Herbert
Executive Director, Alliance for West Oakland Development
Mr. Herbert is the former Executive Director for the Alliance for West Oakland Development. He has a long history of professional involvement with non-profit organizations working on community development issues.

Kevin Stein
Associate Director, California Reinvestment Coalition
Kevin Stein is the Associate Director of the California Reinvestment Coalition. At CRC, Kevin works primarily on housing issues, including efforts to fight predatory mortgage lending. Kevin was the primary author of CRC’s reports, “Stolen Wealth: Inequities in California’s Subprime Mortgage Market,” which investigated subprime and predatory lending practices in the state, and “Who Really Gets Home Loans? Years Ten and Eleven and “Who Really Gets Higher Cost Home Loans,” analysis of home lending that explore the relationship between race and the cost of credit. Before coming to CRC, Kevin was Supervising Attorney at the East Palo Alto Community Law Project and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, working on community economic development issues. Prior to that, he worked at HomeBase, a law and social policy center on homelessness. Kevin is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, and Stanford University.