Martin Daniel Eakes

Martin Daniel Eakes is an American economic development strategist, and credit union CEO.

Eakes grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated from Davidson College, where he majored in physics and philosophy, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.P.P. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

In 1980, he co-founded the Center for Community Self-Help in Durham. In 1998, he helped form the Coalition for Responsible Lending.^[1]

He married Barbara Marie Wright; they have two children, Justin and Carlyn.^[2]

Awards

• 1996 MacArthur Fellows Program
• Ford Foundation grant
• Ned Gramlich Lifetime Achievement Award for Responsible Lending.

References

1. ^ http://www.microfinanceusa2010.org/speakers/index.php
2. ^ http://www2.davidson.edu/news/news_archives/archives_imgs/0110_convocation/0110convo-citation1.html

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