Bread & Roses Community Fund

Board of Directors

Bread & Roses Community Fund's Board of Directors is dynamic, energetic and creative group of people dedicated to promoting racial and economic justice organizing in the Delaware Valley. Click on a linked name below to read more about the people who volunteer their time to lead this organization.

	Richard Baron more here			Rick has worked for nearly 40 years in the community mental health field in Philadelphia and is a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania.
	Denise Brown (co-chair) more here			Denise is the executive director of the Leeway Foundation, supporting art for social change.
	Gloria Casarez more here			Gloria is Mayor Nutter's liaison to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
	Andy Lamas more here			Andy was a founding board member of the Center for Community Self-Help in North Carolina and the Reinvestment Fund in Philly. He is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania
	Arun Prabhakaran more here			Arun is the Corporate and Foundation Manager at the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Commission.
	Chris Rabb more here			Chris is a new media consultant, writer, social commentator and founder of AfroNetizen.
	Aissia Richardson			Aissia is the Vice President of Operations of African American United Fund.
	Ellen Somekawa more here			Ellen is the executive director of Asian Americans United, and her work has included pushing the justice system to respond to racially motivated murder.
	Joel Steiker more here			Joel is a partner in Murex Investments, directing capital to disenfranchised and traditionally underserved communities and business sectors.
	Tom Sugrue (co-chair) more here			Tom is a professor of history and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in 20th-century American politics, urban history and race relations.