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From 2005 to 2007, Mark served as the co-director of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, a leading economic justice advocacy group. Before that, he served for twelve years as the founding Executive Director of the Central Brooklyn Partnership, a grassroots economic self-determination organization, and was the founding board chair of the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union. Mark has also served as a Revson Fellow at Columbia University, a Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Generation Leadership Fellow and an Open Society Institute (OSI) Community Fellow. An accomplished writer and journalist, Mark’s articles and essays have appeared in many publications throughout the country, including the New York Times, the Nation, Mother Jones. the New York Daily News, the Village Voice, the Source, Spin magazine and Essence magazine. He has also been a columnist for Gotham Gazette.
Mark is currently a board member of Free Speech TV based in Denver Colorado, and a board member of City Futures, which includes City Limits magazine and the Center for an Urban Future. Mark has received awards and honors from Crain's New York Business, Black Enterprise magazine, Fortune Magazine and New York Magazine.
Mark received his BA from Brown University and his MA in contemporary literature from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.
Op-eds
FoodNYC by Mark Winston Griffith, The Brian Lehrer Show, March 10, 2010
What EFCA is Up Against by Mark Winston Griffith, GRIT-TV, June 30, 2009
Chaos and the Mortgage Crisis by Mark Winston Griffith, GRIT-TV, May 11, 2009
Mortgage Cramdown by Mark Winston Griffith, The Brian Lehrer Show, February 19, 2009
The Real Shame of Wall Street Bonuses by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, January 30, 2009
Nationalizing the Mighty and the Fallen by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, January 23, 2009
Homeownership and Asset-Building Beyond the Bush Ownership Society by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, December 22, 2008
Financial Institutions Must Meet Higher Standards by Mark Winston Griffith, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 17, 2008
Tenants Receive Overdue Foreclosure Love by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, December 15, 2008
The Best of 2008: Going After the Predatory Lenders by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, December 12, 2008
Manhattan Institute: Wrong Again on Fair Lending by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, December 12, 2008
Treasury to Promote Homeownership? Not So Fast by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, December 4, 2008
Mounting a Surge in the War Against Foreclosure Predators by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, November 24, 2008
The Bair Necessities by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, November 18, 2008
Fannie and Freddie Offer Thin Lifeline to Homeowners by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, November 12, 2008
Mortgage Assistance Doesn't Punish "Responsible" Borrowers by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, November 4, 2008
Psst, President Obama. I Got the New Killer CRA by Mark Winston Griffith, Huffington Post, October 30, 2008
OSI Forum: The U.S. Economic Downturn by Mark Winston Griffith, Open Society Institute, October 23, 2008
Mark Winston Griffith: We Are Acorn by Mark Winston Griffith, GRIT-TV, October 20, 2008
Mark Winston Griffith discusses what is missing from the Congressional bailout bill on GRIT-TV by Mark Winston Griffith, GRIT-TV, October 2, 2008
Agenda for Albany: Reach out to owners in danger of losing their homes by Mark Winston Griffith, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 20, 2008
Griffith: Giving people a chance to keep their homes is sound public policy by Mark Winston Griffith, Austin-American Statesman, April 25, 2008
At tax time, avoid predatory lenders by Mark Winston Griffith, metro New York, April 10, 2008
The black church arrives on America's doorstep by Mark Winston Griffith, In The Fray Magazine, April 6, 2008
"I Am Barack Obama" by Mark Winston Griffith, Mother Jones, March 17, 2008
The Myth of the Risky Sub-Prime Borrower by Mark Winston Griffith, AlterNet.org, April 9, 2007
Middle-class Manhattanites: An endangered species by Mark Winston Griffith, amNewYork, September 13, 2006
How Harlem Eats by Mark Winston Griffith, The Nation, August 24, 2006
Bill can end predatory lending by Mark Winston Griffith, TimesUnion, July 24, 2006
Credit Crunch by Mark Winston Griffith, The Nation, January 31, 2006
N.Y. banks want to rip you off by Mark Winston Griffith, NY Daily News, November 2, 2005
DMI Op-Ed: Banking from the Bottom by Mark Winston Griffith, NY Times, October 9, 2005
DMI Op-Ed: Neighborhood Banking Is About To Change by Mark Winston Griffith, GothamGazette.com, June 23, 2005
DMI Op-ed: Consumer Versus Community by Mark Winston Griffith, TomPaine.com, March 31, 2005
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In the News
No bailout for Brownsville by Alex Ulam, The Real Deal, May 12, 2008
America is changed, but falls short of Martin Luther King's vision of justice by Errol Louis, NY Daily News, March 30, 2008
DMI In the News: Subprime Crimes From Wall Street to Brooklyn and Beyond by Nicholas Jahr, The Brooklyn Rail, March 10, 2008
Possible Foreclosure Moratorium for New York by Robert Knight, Public News Service, January 7, 2008
Holiday loans = high-interest headaches by MSNBC Nightly News, MSNBC, December 18, 2006
DMI in the News: A Fresh Voice Sees the Downside of Bush's 'Ownership Society' by Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2005