Dr. Gloria Bromell- Tinubu
Abbreviated Biography

Dr. Gloria Bromell- Tinubu, former member of the Georgia Board of Education, is an associate professor of economics with tenure, and former chair of the Department of Economic~ at Spelman College. She has been a professor at Spelman since 1986 and completed (fall 1998) a scholar-in-residence at NYU in which she conducted research for her book with the proposed title: The Wealth of Relations In Search of Meaning and Value in a New Economics. While on-leave from Spelman for the 2001-2002 academic year, she was named the CEO of Atlanta Cooperative Development Corporation, a city- created entity she helped to establish in 1996 (she served as Chair of the Board since its inception) to plan, coordinate and sponsor cooperatively owned housing, businesses, and financial institutions. Within nine months as CEO, she obtained a $1 million grant for a 5-year demonstration project to assist the asset-poor in moving toward economic self- sufficiency, and is leading a fundraising campaign for an additional $2 million. She is currently conducting research that explores the use of cooperatives as a viable means of estab1ishing and promoting economic security for asset-poor individuals and communities. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Master's in Agricultural Economics from C1emson University in 1986 and 1977, respectively. She earned a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Howard University in 1974.

A mayoral candidate for change in Atlanta in 1997 and 2001, Dr. Tinubu is a former member of the Atlanta City Council who has considerable community development experience. She served as chair of the Council's Community Development and Hunan Resources Committee for two of her four years on the Council While chair, she authored legislation creating the Atlanta Neighborhood Deputies Program, a citywide citizen driven code enforcement effort, She served on the boards of the Atlanta Development Authority, the Urban Residential Finance authority, and the Downtown : Development Authority. She also chaired the Board of the Metropolitan Neighborhood Development Corporation (MNDC), which she founded to oversee the implementation of the Stewart Avenue/Metropolitan Parkway Redevelopment plan and led the merger of MNDC with CAMP, the Community Alliance of Metropolitan Parkway, a non-profit affordable housing developer whose board she now chairs Dr. Tinubu has been a member of board of directors for the Task Force for the Homeless since 1997 and in that year introduced legislation for a living wage ordinance for the City of Atlanta. In the fall of 1999, Dr. Tinubu became a founding member of the "Season for Nonviolence 2000" Atlanta Task Force. In 2001 and 2002, she joined the boards of directors of the American Kidney Fund, Literacy Volunteers of America, and Save the Family Foundation.

Dr. Tinubu has received numerous honors and awards including the Winnie Mandela Humanitarian Award for Public Service in 2001 and listed in the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Most Influential Georgians and Who's Who in Black Atlanta, in 2001. In January 2000, Spelman College honored her with an award for "Community Service and Public Policy." In addition, she was the recipient of the College's "Fannie Lou Hammer Community Service Award" in 1998 and was made an honorary member of the Golden Key National Honor Society. In 1999, the Million Man March Atlanta Local Organizing Committee honored her as one of four women with its "Pioneering Spirit Award" for public service. The National Black Caucus of the Teamsters recognized her for excellence through education in 1998. Dr. Tinubu, a graduate of the 1996 class of Leadership Atlanta, was named among "The 100 Most Influential Black Women" in the City of Atlanta by the Atlanta Business League, for 1996, 1997, and 2001. The Atlanta Business Chronicle dubbed her one of the "Mighty Dozens," that is, one of twelve people who dominated the headlines and shaped the news in Atlanta in 1997.