Board of Directors

Nancy Register

Nancy Register, President of the CAAB Board, is the Associate Director of the Consumer Federation of America. She was a founder and board president of Bright Beginnings, Inc. and the recipient of several community service awards. In 2001, she was honored with a community leadership award given by Levi Strauss and the Washington Post. In addition to serving on the Bright Beginnings Board, she is the past-President of the District of Columbia Library Foundation Board. She received a B.A. degree from the College of William and Mary.

Marcella Harshbarger

Marcella Harshbarger, Vice President of the CAAB Board, is a corporate attorney with a global telecommunications company. Her nonprofit experience includes Latino outreach, credit counseling, and teaching credit management classes. She has practiced corporate law with law firms in New York and Washington, DC, and graduated from Duke University School of Law with a J.D. and an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law.

Ken White

Ken White, Secretary/Treasurer of the CAAB Board, is Vice President for Business Banking at Provident Bank. He is the former Senior Business Banking Representative for Business Banking at M&T Bank; the former Director of Entrepreneurial Services at Southeastern University in Washington, DC; and former Executive Director of The Washington Project.

Thomas Knoll

Thomas Knoll is the founder of and former Executive Director of Community Family Life Services and current Director of Major Gifts at CFLS. An ordained minister, he worked as Pastor for the First Trinity Lutheran Church in Washington, DC. Mr. Knoll is a member of several community and professional organizations.

Laurent Ross

Laurent Ross is the College Savings Program Manager for Calvert, the nation's largest family of socially responsible mutual funds. Prior to working with Calvert, he served in the Executive Office of Mayor Anthony A.Williams as the first Director of the D.C. Tuition Assistance Program.

Alan Berube

Alan Berube is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. His areas of expertise include urban demographics, tax and banking policies for low-income families and communities, and comparative social policies and demographics in the US and UK.

Kathryn R. Clay

Kathryn R. Clay is the Vice President and Community Consultant for PNC Bank, Greater Washington Area. In addition to her service to CAAB, Ms. Clay serves on three other boards which all address issues such as affordable housing, economic empowerment and substance abuse.

Richard M. Hall

Richard M. Hall served as CAAB's Executive Director from November 1997 to April 2005, after a career as a practicing lawyer. Previously, he worked at the Department of Justice and helped start the Natural Resources Defense Council, an internationally known public interest law firm.

Veronica Nolan

Veronica Nolan is the Executive Director of the Urban Alliance Foundation. She originally joined Urban Alliance in 2002 as a Program Director after having taught at Eastern Senior High School for four years through the Teach for America program. In addition to her responsilbilties as UA's Executive Director, she also serves on the Board of Directors of DC Alliance of Youth Advocates and Workforce Organizations for Regional Collaboration (WORC).

Ernest Skinner

Ernest Skinner is the former Vice President of Community Development at Citibank, F.S.B., Mid- Atlantic Region. He has been an active member and has served on the board of various organizations throughout country. He has also been a long time advocate of IDAs in Washington and nationally.