In honor of EducationMakers: Shaping Generations, we salute Phillip L. Clay, former Chancellor of MIT and Founding Director of the MasterCard Foundation, who speaks about the influence of early African American educators.
Phillip Clay serves as professor of housing policy and city planning at MIT and is recognized as a national authority on urban housing policy and community-based organizational development. He has been the principal investigator in several studies examining affordable housing, housing preservation and urban gentrification. Clay was appointed Chancellor of MIT in 2001, making him the highest-ranking African American official in the history of the institute, and served in this position until 2011. Clay is Chair of the Board of The Community Builders, Inc., one of the nation's largest nonprofit developers of affordable housing. He was a Founding Director of The MasterCard Foundation, a trustee of the Kresge Foundation, and also served as Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
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