Plenary & Workshop Presentations
The 4th Latino Credit Union Conference
Plenaries
HONORING OUR HERITAGE: IMMIGRANTS & CREDIT UNIONS
Ronald Rioux - St. Mary's Bank CU (Manchester, NH)
Harriet May - GECU (El Paso, TX)
Luis Pastor - Latino Community CU (Durham, NC)
Randy Chambers - Self-Help CU (Durham, NC)
Pablo DeFilippi - Lower Eastside People's FCU (New York, NY)
NCUA — HELPING CREDIT UNIONS SERVE THE UNDERSERVED
Gigi Hyland - Board Member, National Credit Union Administration (Washington, DC)
LATINO PUBLIC POLICY: OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS
Mary Dunn - CUNA (Washington, DC)
Deborah Myers - Migration Policy Insitute (Washington, DC)
Donald Terry - Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, DC)
Deyanira DelRio - Lower East Side People's FCU (New York, NY)
PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL LATINO CREDIT UNIONs & PROFESSIONALS (NLCUP)
Carlos Calderón - OAS Staff FCU (Washington, DC)
Larry Garcia - Affordable Housing CUSO of El Paso (El Paso, TX)
Carla Decker - District Government Employees' FCU (Washington, DC)
Pablo DeFilippi - Lower East Side People's FCU (New York, NY)
Luis Pastor - Latino Community CU (Durham, NC)
FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE: CREDIT UNIONS IN SOLIDARITY
Juri Valdov - Board Chairman, CUNA (Washington, D.C.)
Dick Ensweiler - President, Texas Credit Union League
Danielle Chatfield - Kemba Financial CU (Columbus, OH)
John Herrera - Latino Community CU (Durham, NC)
Pablo DeFilippi - Lower East Side People's FCU (New York, NY)
LATINO INITIATIVES OF THE U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT: DIRECTO A SU CUENTA/GO DIRECT
Anna Escobedo Cabral, United States Treasurer (Washington, DC)
Workshops
A1 - LENDING 101: INTRODUCTION TO LENDING TO LATINOS
Lewis Dancy - Self-Help CU (Durham, NC)
Robert Mims - Water and Power Community CU (Los Angeles, CA)
A2 - LENDING 201: MORTGAGES AND BEYOND
Oscar Saavedra - Latino Community CU (Durham, NC)
Leonardo Simpser - Hispanic National Mortgage Association (San Diego, CA)
A3 - LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: FINANCIAL EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR LATINOS
Fernando Almánzar - Univision (Miami, FL)
Erika Bell - Latino Community CU (Durham, NC)
Joe Saari - Precision Information (Chicago, IL)
B1 - THE CHANGING FACE AND SOUND OF AMERICA
Jim Hanson - CUNA (Madison, WI)
Jim Johnson - University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
Manuel Orozco - Inter-American Dialogue (Washington, DC)
B2 - WHO WILL SERVE US? LATINO CREDIT UNION LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Carlos Calderón - OAS Staff FCU (Washington, DC)
Luis Pastor - Latino Community CU (Durham, NC)
B3 - FINDING LATINO MEMBERS: OUTREACH AND MARKETING
Laura Lowe Edgar - Arizona FCU (Phoenix, AZ)
Javier Olave - Latino Community CU (Durham, NC)
C1 - SERVING LATINOS, THE CREDIT UNION WAY
Luis Caballero - West Texas CU (El Paso, TX)
Carla Decker - Dirstrict Government Employees' FCU (Washington, DC)
Linda Webb-Manon - Texas Credit Union League (Farmers Branch, TX)
C2 - REACHING ACROSS “LA FRONTERA:” INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL COOPERATION
Paolo Lezama Bellman - Caja Libertad (Corregidora, México)
Javier Gavito - BANSEFI (Ciudad de México, D.F., México)
David Torres - Caja Popular Mexicana (Guanajuato, México)
C3 - MEMBER IDENTIFICATION: COMPLYING WITH THE RULES
Bob Fenner - NCUA (Alexandria, VA)
Francine Prince - Internal Revenue Service (Washington, D.C.)
32nd Annual Meeting
Plenaries
WELCOMING REMARKS
Rodney Hood - Vice-Chairman, National Credit Union Administration
Fred Becker - President, National Association of Federal Credit Unions
Chuck Purvis - National Credit Union Foundation
CDCU INDUSTRY FORUM
Farad Ali - NC Minority Business Development Center (Chapel Hill, NC)
Lynwood Cox - NC Minority Support Center (Durham, NC)
Maureen Lucas - Generations Community CU (Durham, NC)
Michelle Woodall - Sun Trust Bank (Atlanta, GA)
John Herrera - Self-Help CU/Latino Community CU (Durham, NC)
Luis Pastor - Latino Community CU (Durham, NC)
Jim Blaine - State Employees' CU (Raleigh, NC)
Bill Bynum - Enterprise Corp. of the Delta/Hope Community CU (Jackson, MS)
COMBATING PREDATORY LENDERS AND PROMOTING FAIR LENDING LEGISLATION IN YOUR STATE AND NATIONALLY
Martin Eakes - President, Self Help CU (Durham, NC)
14th ANNUAL ANNIE VAMPER “HELPING HANDS” AWARDS
Sen. Elizabeth Dole - United States Senator (Washington, DC)
The Federation, CDCUs, and the CU Movement: 2005-2006 and Beyond
Clifford Rosenthal - Executive Director of the Federation (New York, NY)
GULF-COAST REBUILDING PLENARY
Audrey Cerise - President ASI FCU (Harahan, LA)
Lynette Colin - Hope Community CU (Jackson, MS)
Donald Phoenix - NeighborWorks® America (Washington, DC)
Workshops
D1 - EXPANDING MEMBERSHIP WITHIN YOUR COMMUNITY
Greg Brown - South Side Community CU (Chicago, IL)
Vicky Garcia - Latino Community CU (Durham, NC)
D2 - “WHITE PAPER” ALTERNATIVES FOR UNDERWRITING LOANS
Helen Smith - Shreveport FCU (Shreveport, LA)
Alonzo Swan - NCUA (Atlanta, GA)
D3 - CULTIVATING AND GROOMING A DYNAMIC BOARD
Tom Adams - Transition Guides (Silver Spring, MD)
Saundra Scales - First Legacy FCU (Charlotte, NC)
D4 - CREDIT UNION DISABILITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS
Angie Franklin - Communities United CU (Wichita, KA)
Jaime Robinson - University of Iowa College of Law (Iowa City, IA)
Shayna Smith - Americorps*VISTA, Detroit-Wayne CIL (Detroit, MI)
E1 - BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS & THWARTING “THE COMPETITION”
Michael Chan - Northeast Community FCU (San Francisco, CA)
Anita Macias - Patelco CU (San Francisco, CA)
Sarah Taylor - ASI FCU (Harahan, LA)
Marva Williams - Woodstock Institute (Chicago, IL)
E2 - MITIGATING LOSS: DEALING WITH BANKRUPTCY AND FRAUD
Franklin Drake - Smith Debnam Narron Wyche Story & Myers, LLP (Durham, NC)
Joni Lovingood - CUNA Mutual Group (Madison, WI)
E3 - PLANNING FOR A SUCCESSOR: DEVELOPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS
Tom Adams - Transition Guides (Silver Spring, MD)
E4 - THE CDCU INSTITUTETM TRAINING FOR GROWTH, EFFECTIVENESS & SUSTAINABILITY
Tom Decker - Coordinator, Development Educators Program (Madison, WI)
Terri Fowlkes - Federation CDCU Mortgage Center, LLC (New York, NY)
Pamela Owens - Federation CDCU InstituteTM (New York, NY)
