OpportunityNation

Elizabeth Clay
Deputy Director, OpportunityNation
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Mark Edwards
Executive Director, OpportunityNation
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Elizabeth Clay is the Deputy Director of OpportunityNation. Before joining Be the Change, Inc. she served for three years in the Office of Governor Deval Patrick, as a Policy Advisor and then as Director of Grassroots Governance and Commonwealth Corps. Before joining the Patrick administration, she worked for Abt Associates, researching housing and community revitalization. Elizabeth is also the co-author of Shaping Vibrant Cities, a guidebook on effective community planning and political engagement for neighborhood organizations. It is based on community organizing work with Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy in Bangalore, India. She is a graduate from Columbia University and holds a Master in City Planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mark Edwards is the executive director of OpportunityNation, the next campaign of Be the Change, Inc. OpportunityNation is seeking to build a national coalition of anti-poverty nonprofit groups, business leaders, thought leaders, and grassroots organizations in an effort to build support for a nonpartisan agenda to expand opportunity across America. Prior to joining Be the Change, Mark was the managing partner of Edwards & Company, Inc., a marketing and communications company focused on elevating educational institutions and not-for-profit organizations. He has also served on several nonprofit boards, including the board of Horizons for Homeless Children for the last 18 years (as board chair for five years), where he played a critical leadership role in growing that organization into the country’s largest nonprofit focused on the needs of homeless children. Mark is a graduate of Harvard College and lives in Massachusetts with his wife and three daughters.
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