Jenna Nicholas is a member of LISC’s Emerging Leaders Council and a co-founder of Impact Experience, a social enterprise that aims to build bridges and relationships of trust between impact investors, foundations, entrepreneurs, artists and local leaders. In the process, participants forge solutions together support people and communities that historically have been overlooked and underestimated by outside funders and lenders.

Steven Hussain is Vice President of Workforce Programs and Community Relations at Prologis and has spent most of his career working on behalf of equitable workforce development. He is also a member of LISC's Emerging Leaders Council. He shared with LISC his insights about how the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming the labor landscape, what's missing from our nation's approach to workforce development, and why he's optimistic about the post-pandemic future for workers.

In a roundtable interview, two LISC experts and two members of LISC’s Emerging Leaders Council offer reflections and critical best practices for harnessing arts and culture as part of our national recovery—from the economic devastation of COVID, and from the country’s long-standing racial health, wealth and opportunity gap.

LISC Emerging Leaders Council member La Tasha Barnwell describes her work in public health and the imperative of a holistic strategy for closing the racial wealth gap.

Patrick Duhaney, City Manager of Cincinnati and a LISC Emerging Leaders Council member, tells LISC Cincinnati ED Kristin Baker what it’s like to help run the city in the age of Covid-19. In the face of the economic downturn and sheltering in place, the strategies he and his team are implementing could be part of a blueprint for other organizations, and other crises.

LISC’s Emerging Leader Council member Esther Uduehi is a doctoral candidate at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where her research focuses on the language associated with stigmatized groups and marginalized communities. Uduehi recently sat down with LISC to discuss how nonprofits and practitioners can put her findings to use, and the need to create more conversations using person-centered language.

by Adem Bunkeddeko

There’s a new kind of board at LISC, composed of a diverse crew of younger professionals who are leaders in their fields. Their mission? To bring fresh perspectives, networks and attention to LISC’s work and help us achieve even greater impact in the communities we care about.