Catherine “Katy” Crosby is NCRC’s Chief of Community Engagement and Institutional Accountability. 

Before joining the NCRC staff in 2023, Katy was Town Manager for the Town of Apex, North Carolina where she led a staff of approximately 600 employees and a budget that exceeded $200 million, and served as the NCRC board chairperson. 

Prior to that, she served as the Chief of Staff to Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and the City of Toledo, providing leadership to approximately 2,700 employees and overseeing day to day operations which included administering a budget of more than $800 million.

Katy’s expertise includes enforcing local civil rights ordinances in the areas of housing, employment, public accommodation, and credit; overseeing contract compliance and capacity building programs for socially and economically disadvantaged businesses; and community relations programs that focus on immigrant integration, reducing violence, and improving the relationship between the community and police.

She is a member of the Higher Learning Commission board, one of six institutional accreditors in the United States and The Root Cause Coalition, a national coalition of organizations addressing health inequities through cross-sector partnerships. 

Diane Crockett is the Chief Financial Officer of NCRC. Prior to joining NCRC, Diane served as Chief Financial Officer at The Summit Charitable Foundation where she provided strategic leadership for all financial, grantmaking and administrative operations of the foundation. Summit is a private foundation which focuses on equality for women and girls, a resilient Mesoamerican reef and promoting sustainable cities. Previously, she was Chief Financial Officer at Goodwill of Greater Washington.

Her prior experience includes more than 17 years in a variety of roles at The AES Corporation, a global power company, where she ended her career as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior to her time at AES, Diane held accounting positions at Claritas, a geodemographic marketing company, and Aetna Life and Casualty Insurance Company.

Diane currently serves as director on the board of Kakenya’s Dream, a nonprofit organization that invests in girls from rural Kenya through educational, health and leadership initiatives to create agents of change.

Diane is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and received her MBA from the University of New Haven. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Greater Washington Society of CPAs. She lives with her husband on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

Eden Forsythe is the Chief Policy Counsel at NCRC.  She most recently served as the Deputy Staff Director for Policy and General Counsel at the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and China. In that capacity, she passed major bipartisan legislation, and oversaw policy for Democrats in human rights, supply chain, clean energy transition, trade, and labor rights. Earlier in her career, Eden was the Senior Counsel for Ranking Member of Ways and Means Sander Levin of Michigan and was part of the core team for House Democrats in securing the passage of the Iran Nuclear Agreement negotiated under President Obama.

Prior to returning to Congress in 2022,  Eden focused extensively on domestic policy affecting low-income people. She was part of the core team in New York state that passed legislation automatically raising hourly minimum wage in the event of inflation for people working in low-wage jobs.

Eden began her career as a deputy district attorney in California where she prosecuted a wide range of crimes. She holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of the Pacific, and was the 2009 Yale-in-China Teaching Law Fellow where she taught Federal Rules of Evidence.  Eden was the 2017 Rising Star and nominated to be Best under 40 by her peers in the DC Chapter of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association. She lives in New York City.

Gregory Dyson is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC). Gregory is an accomplished senior executive who brings more than 20 years of executive leadership and management responsibility, previously serving as chief operating officer at the American Nurses Association (ANA) Enterprise and senior vice president and chief operating officer of ICMA Retirement Corporation, a Washington, DC-based retirement services provider. He is a fierce advocate for financial wellness, health equity, wealth building and an inclusive community. He has a keen understanding of the intersection of human capital, financial capital and programs to advance the work of nonprofit entities.

He most recently served as chair of the Georgetown Preparatory School board of trustees and is currently a member of the AARP Foundation board of directors, Strathmore Hall Foundation board of directors and Ohio Wesleyan University board of trustees. In 2017, he was awarded the Insignis Medal from Georgetown Preparatory School, the school’s highest honor and in 2015, he received the National Leadership Award from the National Forum of Black Public Administrators.

Gregory is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and received his MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Gregory and Avis reside in Olney, MD, and have two adult children, Adam and Alden.

Simon “Mac” McNeil is the Executive Director of NCRC’s Community Development Fund (NCRC CDF). He is a top performing executive with multinational business experience that understands how to motivate large and small staffs of leaders to achieve high-level and demanding goals, while balancing employee work satisfaction. Named as one of the 10 Most Influential Black Corporate Leaders to Watch in 2023 by CIO Views Magazine, he most recently reported to the CEO of the Sanneh Foundation as Executive Vice President and led all business functions and senior leadership teams of the organization to include, data management, external affairs and partnerships, finance, fundraising, human resources, learning and development, operations, programming, risk and threat management, strategic branding and sustainability, strategic initiatives, and technology.

Mac has 19 years of finance and executive leadership experience with large banks such as JPMorgan Chase, where he was a 1st Vice President District Manager in Arizona and Southern California, and at Bank of America as Vice President/Operations Market Manager in the Inland Empire of California. Mac was the executive operations leader for 60 financial centers and had direct responsibility for a $2 billion P&L and over 500 employees. He was Vice President Operations for Synchrony Bank and led the Operations Optimization team to include Agile project management methodology, process improvement transformation, robotic process automation, intelligence character recognition implementation, the IRA and Trust front office operations teams and the bank correspondence and ATM card teams with operations in Charlotte, North Carolina; Merriam, Kansas; and Manila, Philippines.

Mac also has executive leadership experience in the CDFI space. He led all enterprise operations as Senior Vice President of Operations for the Community Reinvestment Fund, USA, which included asset management, credit underwriting, customer engagement, data management and analytics, loan origination and closing, loan servicing, process governance, risk and controls, technology and vendor relations.

Mac began his leadership career in the United States Army as an Intelligence Analyst in the Special Operations Command, specializing in psychological operations and is a Desert Storm Veteran. 

Mac has a doctorate (ABD) from the University of Phoenix in Management in Organizational Leadership, an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and a BS in Business Administration from Pfeiffer University.

Mac has served on several boards to include Feeding America of Greater Riverside, Inspire Life Skills Training, and was the co-lead for the African American Network Charlotte for Synchrony.  He has also been featured in Who’s Who of Black Charlotte.