About FIELD: Advisory Board

FIELD solicits expert advisors for many of its special projects and initiatives. Advisory boards are currently active for two FIELD projects, MicroTest and MicroMentor.

MicroTest Advisory Board

Frank Ballesteros
Chief Administrative Officer
PPEP Microbusiness and Housing Development Corporation, Inc.
Tucson, Ariz.

Marisa Barrera
Executive Vice President
ACCION New Mexico
Albuquerque, N.M.

Melany Brown
Executive Director
Washington CASH
Seattle, Wash.

Marian Doub
Consultant
Marian Doub Consulting
San Francisco, Calif.

Sheri Flanigan
Economic Development Director
Justine Petersen Housing and Reinvestment Corp.
St. Louis, Mo.

Miriam Karanja
Director Business Dev. Center
Arkansas Women's Business Development Center (ARWBDC)
Pine Bluff, Ark.

Pamela Patterson
Chief Executive Officer
West Company
Ukiah, Calif.

Jordan Pollinger
ACCION New York
Vice President, Operations
New York City, N.Y.

Kathy J. Ricci
Executive Director
Utah Microenterprise Loan Fund
Salt Lake City, Utah

Nancy Swift
Executive Director
Jefferson Economic Develpment Institute
Mt. Shasta, Calif.

Tara Taylor
Vice President & COO
Community Financial Resource Center
Los Angeles, Calif.

Eloise Vitelli
Director of Program & Policy Dev.
Maine Centers for Women, Work
and Community
Augusta, Maine

Kristen Wesloh
Chief Operating Officer
Acre Family Day Care
Lowell, Mass.

MicroMentor Advisory Board

Asheesh Advani
President/CEO
CircleLending
Cambridge, Mass.

Philip Black
Director, BusinesStart
People, Inc. of Southwest Virginia
Abingdon, Va.

Richard Buery
Executive Director
Groundwork, Inc.
Brooklyn, N.Y.

Janiece Evans-Page
Global Director, e-Inclusion
Hewlett-Packard Company
Palo Alto, Calif.

Karen Doyle Grossman
Consultant
Washington, D.C.

Steven Liao
President
MechanicNet Group, Inc.
Fremont, Calif.

Terri Lonier
President
Working Solo Inc.
New Paltz, N.Y.

Faye C. McNair-Knox
Executive Director
One East Palo Alto Neighborhood
Improvement Initiative
East Palo Alto, Calif.

Kirsten Moy
Executive Director
Economic Opportunities Program
The Aspen Institute
Washington, D.C.

Gerald O'Dwyer
President and CEO
Fuzhen Group
Chicago, Ill.

Sue Peters
Associate Program Officer
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Flint, Mich.

Sheilah Rogers
President
MacKenzie Consulting
Ukiah, Calif.

Bud Rosenthal
Vice-President
Yahoo! Inc.
Sunnyvale, Calif.

Alec Ross
Vice-President, Corporate and Business Development
One Economy Corporation
Washington, D.C.

Scott Smith
Attorney
Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos
& Rudy, LLP
San Francisco, Calif.

Monika Szamko
Managing Consultant
The Trium Group
San Francisco, Calif.