Priscilla Almodovar is the president and chief executive officer of Enterprise Community Partners, a national affordable housing nonprofit on a mission to make home and community places of pride, power, and belonging for all. Enterprise operates the only social enterprise designed to address America’s affordable housing crisis from every angle—as lender, investor, and asset manager of affordable rental homes; funder and adviser to community organizations and government agencies; advocate for nonpartisan housing policy; and owner-operator. From 2010 to 2019, Almodovar was a managing director at JPMorgan Chase, where she led two national real estate businesses for their commercial bank in commercial real estate and community development. Previously, she was the president and chief executive officer of New York state’s housing finance and mortgage agencies and co-chaired the New York State Health Innovation Council, an advisory body of the New York State Department of Health.

Tane Danger is an emcee, comedian, teacher, and speaker. He is best known as the host of the nationally renowned, civics-inspired improvisation comedy show, “The Theater of Public Policy.” At each show, he interviews newsmakers, policymakers, and big thinkers on issues ranging from race in education to the farm bill.

In addition to performing and directing, he regularly gives keynote talks and leads workshops. He uses improv as a way to get leaders to think about and practice communication, collaboration, and creativity. He is also a regular on Twin Cities public television’s weekly public affairs program, Almanac.

In 2014, Danger won a fellowship from the St. Paul-based Bush Foundation, which helped him earn a master of public policy degree from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

Bambie Hayes-Brown is the CEO of Georgia Advancing Communities Together, Inc., a statewide membership organization of housing and community development agencies. She has 24 years’ experience in rural and urban housing, and community and economic development. She secured a rural empowerment zone designation resulting in a $20 million investment in Southwest Georgia. Hayes-Brown is a registered lobbyist, real estate broker, and certified economic development finance professional, and she co-chairs the HouseATL Policy Committee. She serves on the board of directors of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Up for Growth, NAACP DeKalb County Branch, and the ATL Airport Chamber of Commerce and on numerous advisory committees, including for the Enterprise Community Partners Southeast, Housing Justice League, and Cadence Bank. Hayes-Brown is a native of rural Georgia and holds a bachelor’s degree in business management, an MBA, a Th.D., and a Ph.D. in biblical studies.

Junia Howell is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research investigates how local and national policies perpetuate racial and socioeconomic inequality. Specifically, she applies critical race theory to urban sociological investigations of home appraisals, neighborhood effects, residential segregation, and disaster response. Her recent academic publications have appeared in Social Problems, Social Forces, Urban Studies, Sociological Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Population and Environment, Sociology Compass, Socius, Phylon, and Context. Her work has been featured in various news outlets, including NPR, The Atlantic, and the New York Times.

Andre Perry is a senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and a scholar-in-residence at American University. He is the author of Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities. A nationally known and respected commentator on race, structural inequality, and education, Perry is a regular contributor to MSNBC and has been published by the New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post, TheRoot.com, and CNN.com. His scholarship has been featured on HBO, ABC, CNN, PBS, National Public Radio, NBC, and in the Wall Street Journal. His research focuses on race and structural inequality, education, and economic inclusion. Perry’s recent scholarship at Brookings has analyzed Black-majority cities and institutions in America, focusing on valuable assets worthy of increased investment.

William H. Rogers Jr. (Bill) is president and chief operating officer of Truist Financial Corporation, a purpose-driven financial services organization committed to inspiring and building better lives and communities. He assumed this position in December 2019, upon the closing of the merger of equals between BB&T Corporation and SunTrust Banks Inc.

Prior to the merger, Rogers served as Truist predecessor SunTrust Bank’s chairman and CEO since January 2012, after having been appointed president and CEO in June 2011. He was named chief operating officer in 2010 and president in 2008. Rogers held increasingly senior positions, including roles in corporate and commercial banking, corporate finance, and private wealth management after joining SunTrust in 1980.

A champion for philanthropy and volunteerism, Rogers serves on boards for a number of local and national organizations. The North Carolina native earned his bachelor’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MBA from Georgia State University.

Amy Scott is a senior correspondent for Marketplace, public radio’s suite of business and economics shows, where she covers housing and the economy and frequently fills in as a host. From 2010 to 2018, she led Marketplace’s education coverage, earning Gracie Awards in 2014 and 2013 and an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2012.

In 2015, Scott completed the independent documentary film OYLER, about a Cincinnati public school fighting to break the cycle of poverty in its traditionally Urban Appalachian neighborhood. From 2003 to 2010, she reported from Marketplace’s New York bureau, where she focused on the culture of Wall Street and became bureau chief in 2008.

Before joining Marketplace in 2001, she worked as a reporter in Dillingham, Alaska. She’s now based in Baltimore.