Brenda Friend

Special Assistant to the Chief of Community Development bfriend@ncrc.org 202-464-2728 Brenda Friend has held the position of Special Assistant to the Chief, Community Development, since June 2018.  Prior to coming to the GROWTH team, she served as the Executive Director for The Greater Cumberland Committee (TGCC) for seven years, in which she demonstrated strong advocacy

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The Rivard Report: TechTonics: Jordana Barton on the Digital Divide and the Threat to Economic Justice

Instead of lacking streets, power, and water, as the residents of the former colonias often did, now the residents of Benavides and other former shantytowns are being left out of the middle class because they lack high-speed internet access – which Barton calls “a platform for access to the economy.”

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