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James T. G. Frazier President of James Frazier Associates, Inc., has been a practitioner in housing counseling, property management, construction, and low income and fair housing advocacy for 35 years. He was Housing Director of the Urban League of Pittsburgh for 28 years where he administered $1.5 million in publicly supported League programs including one of the largest HUD-Certified housing counseling operations in the United States, which offered comprehensive housing counseling services in housing choice, home maintenance and budgeting, and pre-purchase and delinquent/default counseling and utilized a computerized information system that functions as a case management, performance evaluation, and housing database for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County; a $750,000 Emergency Assistance Grants Program, and a Public Housing Improvement Program that provided client selected life skills training to residents of public housing communities. He has conducted extensive training programs in housing counseling under contract with the National Urban League, and through Frazier Associates, he provides consultation in program evaluation, database development, strategic planning, management and training to Frazier Associates clients. He is an former member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Pennsylvania Federation of Housing Counselors and Agencies, and was coordinator of the 1200-member Pittsburgh Housing NOW! Coalition. He is the Vice Chair of the Western Region of Pennsylvania Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. A graduate of Goddard College in Vermont, Frazier holds a master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. |
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Margaret C. Albert is President of Matrix Communications Associates, a Pittsburgh-based communications firm. She has collaborated on and been the principal editor/author of two landmark housing counseling papers, Home Sweet Home-less (1981) and Affordable Housing ... a dream deferred? (1992) as well as numerous research and analytical reports for more than two dozen non-profit agencies in Pittsburgh and national educational publishers. She is the author of two books, Daybreakers, the 65-year history of the Urban League of Pittsburgh, Inc., and A Practical Vision, the 50-year history of Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania, and has contributed to a number of national magazines and newspapers. Proposals she has written have brought more than $30 million to Pittsburgh area non-profit agencies and collaboratives. She is a former senior staff member of the Urban League of Pittsburgh, Inc., A graduate of the Indiana University School of Journalism and a former Fulbright Scholar to France, she has worked for newspapers, magazines and book publishers. Email: Margaret.albert@verizon.net |
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Barbara Baulding is a Program Director for the Alegheny County Housing Authority and former Director of Housing for the Urban League of Pittsburgh. She has worked for over 25 years with homeless prevention and the home ownership and rental problems of low income and minority families. Her expertise is in case management as well as in the evaluation of counseling outcomes and counselor performance. |
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Thomas C. Gale is co-founder and partner in GNPro Housing Services, consultants to government and non-profit housing development agencies such as the National Urban League, National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, New York State Division of Human Rights, Southernside Neighborhood Center in Greenville, SC, and Fair Housing Implementation Office in Yonkers, NY. He has published widely in banking, housing, and general publications, and has participated in training programs and testified before governmental agencies and housing groups across the country. He is former Housing Director for the National Urban League, where he generated over $10 million in research and program funds related to housing counseling, fair housing, and affordable housing and provided technical assistance in more than 20 urban areas. He is currently active in consulting to non-profit housing development corporations in the New York and New Jersey Area and is writing a book on the imperatives of and techniques for achieving racial integration in America. |
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Carolyn Farrow-Garland is a private consultant in Washington, DC, where she provides conference and workshop planning and program evaluation services to national and local non-profit and community-based organizations. Carolyn is presently a senior housing specialist for McAuley Institute Formerly a National Representative for Economic Rights for the American Friends Service Committee and Director of Field Operations for the Coalition for Human Needs in Washington, she developed the training design for interviewers, conducted interviews, and supervised data collection for the Coalition study, How the Poor Would Remedy Poverty. She was also principal investigator for a study of the appropriateness of the Children's Television Workshop program, Sesame Street. |
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Ed Harris, President of the Texas Federation of Housing Counselors and Agencies. Ed is a DATANOW! user, and travels throughout the State of Texas providing pre-purchase housing counseling. Ed is a nationally recognized housing counseling trainer and publisher of the Texas Federation of Housing Counselors' newsletter, "Housing Highlights" |
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Randi R. Lowe is the remote case manager for James Frazier Associates, Inc. She utilizes DATANOW! in her role as a housing counselor and as a senior case manager. She holds the B.S. degree in Human Services and Journalism and has additional training in mortgage default and foreclosure prevention, mortgage pre-purchase for low and modern income first-time home buyers, rental assistance, and homeless prevention. In addition to more than eight years experience in housing counseling, she has worked in mortgage servicing and mortgage collections for a Pittsburgh lender. Randi is a certified housing counselor by the National Federation of Housing Counselors and Agencies. |
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W. Roy Newsome, Jr., AICP currently provides policy development and planning services as a consultant and/or volunteer to public and private organizations. His practice includes advisory services on a number of public interest issues, including the development of affordable and inclusionary housing, disaster and emergency response and recovery and land development and management. At his retirement, in 1996, Mr. Newsome was serving as the Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. Prior to joining the housing finance agency, Mr. Newsome held planning advisory and policy development positions in local and state agencies and with the federal government. He had served as Director of the Pennsylvania Governor's Policy Office, Special Assistant to the Director of Disaster Response for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Planning Advisor to the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs. Mr. Newsome has worked in local, regional and state planning agencies in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina serving with the Tennessee State Planning Commission, as Planning Director for the City of Athens, Tennessee and Chief Planner for the Atlanta Regional Planning Commission. He served as Campus Planner with the University of Tennessee and was a founding partner of The GNP, a housing consultant and development firm based in Harrisburg, PA. Since beginning his career in 1961 he has committed his professional efforts to improving both the housing and community environment of lower-income and special need families and individuals. |
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Yu Su currently is our team's Window's "guru," and as such is leading our programming team towards its rewrite of DATASTART(TM) in a 32-bit Windows format. He holds a Masters in Information Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Beijing Polytechnic University. He has worked for IBM in China, and the China National Software and Technical Service Corporation. |
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