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A Year of Crisis, and Now What? Where Our Main Streets Go from Here
April 8, 2021 @ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm EDT
Minority small-business owners and community lenders, some of whom described how they were surviving the COVID-19 pandemic in a Fed Communities story series, will share their experiences.
Panel focus
During this session, panelists will discuss
- Where they are now
- What they need going forward
- Who can and should help
- What’s at stake for us all when small businesses in underserved areas—and the community development financial institutions and minority depository institutions that support them—struggle
Speakers
Suzanne Anarde, CEO, Rural Community Assistance Corporation
Elmy Bermejo, owner, Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant
John Chin, executive director, Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation
Gary R. Woods, former chairman, Oklahoma City Black Chamber of Commerce
Alfreda Norman, senior vice president, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Matuschka Lindo Briggs, director, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (moderator)