dmuhammad25@nul.org

For the past 20 years, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad has dedicated his career to tackling racial and economic inequities. Asante-Muhammad joins the Joint Center from the Racial Economic Equity and Research at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), where he oversaw fair lending, fair housing, the Women’s Business Center of DC, the National Training Academy, and the Housing Counseling Network, and started the Racial Economic Equity Department. Before joining NCRC, Asante-Muhammad served as director, senior fellow, and founder of the Racial Wealth Divide Initiative for Prosperity Now; senior director for economic programs at the NAACP; a racial wealth divide coordinator for United for a Fair Economy; and national field director for the National Action Network. Asante-Muhammad has been featured in The Hill, Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, Time, The New York Times, C-SPAN, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Atlantic, TheGrio, Black Enterprise, and other media outlets.