The Greenlining Institute
Erica Plasencia is a Program Manager for Economic Equity at The Greenlining Institute, where responsibility includes developing and implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies in collaboration with national organizations to enhance DEI goals in financial services. Previous experience includes roles as a Legal Assistant at Greenfire Law, PC, where management of a 2,500-member class action lawsuit was key, and as a Program Coordinator at Diablo Valley College, where a Social Justice and Professional Development Course was created for over 100 students. Erica has also held positions focused on equitable state policies at California Community Builders and directorship roles at the University of California, Berkeley. Educational qualifications include a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Universitat d'Alacant.
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The Greenlining Institute
Founded in 1993, The Greenlining Institute envisions a nation where communities of color thrive and race is never a barrier to economic opportunity. Because people of color will be the majority of our population by 2044, America will prosper only if communities of color prosper. Greenlining advances economic opportunity and empowerment for people of color through advocacy, community and coalition building, research, and leadership development. We work on a variety of major policy issues, from the economy to environmental policy, civic engagement and many others, because economic opportunity doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Rather than seeing these issues as being in separate silos, Greenlining views them as interconnected threads in a web of opportunity.