“I think I probably got to do things (at the Boston Fed) that would have been, at the time, more difficult (to do) in the private sector,” she said. “I think I got more opportunity.” “I got terrific experience there,” Joan said. https://t.co/BHOY2up4xl
Boston Fed Mon 08 Mar 2021 18:53

She later left the Bank and went on to become CEO of PNC Advisors. In a 2003 interview with Smart Business Network online, Joan said the Fed was a great place to spend the first part of her career because her supervisors gave her the chance to do a range of jobs at a young age.
Boston Fed Mon 08 Mar 2021 18:38

Joan spent the first 16 years of her career with the @federalreserve before moving to the Boston Fed. She took on a variety of management assignments, including running the check department, before she was named the Bank’s first-ever female SVP in 1980 at just 32 years old.
Boston Fed Mon 08 Mar 2021 18:38

March is #WomensHistoryMonth, and for the LEAD in Women employee resource group, it’s an opportunity to highlight the women who’ve helped shape the Boston Fed. Today we feature Joan Gulley, the Boston Fed’s first female senior vice president. https://t.co/ku4E89i4Z5
Boston Fed Mon 08 Mar 2021 18:23

Employees leave the Bank’s Pearl Street building after a day's work. This image was found in the Boston Fed’s “Servicemen’s Newsletter” from September 1945. The publication circulated from 1942 until 1946 mostly during World War II. https://t.co/Wgv14xYneL
Boston Fed Sat 06 Mar 2021 14:56

The Maine #WorkingCommunities Challenge has reached a new milestone. After launching this fall, 8 teams have been selected for $25,000 design grants. Teams will enter a 6-month design phase to refine their proposals and apply to receive the full funding and execute their visions. https://t.co/ynN127v518
Boston Fed Fri 05 Mar 2021 05:24

The Maine Working Communities Challenge has reached a new milestone. After launching this fall, 8 teams have been selected for $25,000 design grants. Teams will enter a 6-month design phase to refine their proposals and apply to receive the full funding and execute their visions. https://t.co/IRBEAorWkz
Boston Fed Fri 05 Mar 2021 05:14

RT @carpentrybureau: How do workers impacted by the pandemic perceive their situation with respect to others? The second Crisis Monitoring…
Boston Fed Wed 03 Mar 2021 16:42

RT @MITFinTech: Looking forward to hosting @BostonFed's very own SVP of Secure #Payments and FinTech, Jim Cunha this Friday at the MIT #Fin…
Boston Fed Tue 02 Mar 2021 21:51

RT @MplsFedComDev: Missed yesterday's #RacismandtheEconomy event on #housing? Visit the Fed's Racism and the Economy web page to watch the…
Boston Fed Tue 02 Mar 2021 21:16

“Banks given minimal fines, slaps on the wrist, have no impact in altering the behavior that created the conditions that kind of corruption and theft of Black communities in the first place,” @KeeangaYamahtta said. “There has to be some consequence for that.”
Boston Fed Mon 01 Mar 2021 21:20

“Black families in '06–'08 were targeted by banks. This was not due to a loosening of rules or that somehow we ended up with Black people being targeted with subprime loans," @KeeangaYamahtta said.
Boston Fed Mon 01 Mar 2021 21:20

.@KeeangaYamahtta says that a key issue is "predatory inclusion:" the ways that the real estate and banking industries have twisted the unequal conditions created by past discrimination and reframed them now as "risk" in order to treat Black consumers differently.
Boston Fed Mon 01 Mar 2021 21:00

“I would challenge everyone to focus on solutions. Make sure you are challenging those that are not at this table. In those rooms where this is an unpopular conversation, lift it up there,” @RobinSimmons888, @CityofEvanston’s 5th Ward alderman, concluded. #RacismandtheEconomy
Boston Fed Mon 01 Mar 2021 20:40

Bill Rogers, Truist Bank president and COO, said participation is required at all levels: local, regional and national and "in order to level the scale, you have to unlevel the scale to create true justice." #RacismandtheEconomy
Boston Fed Mon 01 Mar 2021 20:20

.@RobinSimmons888, alderman of Illinois' @CityofEvanston’s 5th Ward, helped spearhead a reparations program for Black Evanstonians. The program received $10 million from Illinois' recreational cannabis sales tax, funding reparations in housing.
Boston Fed Mon 01 Mar 2021 20:05

“There has been a pattern over a long period of time that regulations regarding housing discrimination have not be rigorously enforced, so there are not behavior-altering responses that force people to act differently,” @KeeangaYamahtta said. #RacismandtheEconomy
Boston Fed Mon 01 Mar 2021 19:40

.@KeeangaYamahtta: “As long as the federal government continues to go into public policies that are intended to expand housing opportunities to a sector that has both conjured and maintained racist practices, we will continue to see these practices and problems exist.”
Boston Fed Mon 01 Mar 2021 19:35

RT @FedFRASER: Former @BostonFed president Cathy Minehan and @sffed president Janet Yellen first join the FOMC on August 16, 1994 #WomensHi…
Boston Fed Mon 01 Mar 2021 15:45

History Saturdays are back! We bring you a billboard in Boston’s Financial District highlighting the yet-to-be site of Federal Reserve Plaza, where the Bank currently resides. Seems like just yesterday. #memories https://t.co/JkV5cfV4hn
Boston Fed Sat 27 Feb 2021 15:18

“The memorial celebrates the honor, bravery, and sacrifice of the 54th Regiment and serves as a reminder of how many Black Americans have given their lives in the name of ‘Liberty and Justice for All,’ even when they were not granted liberty or justice themselves,” Wilson said. https://t.co/6t04BxQosO
Boston Fed Fri 26 Feb 2021 21:07

“According to the @BOAFNPS, the 54th Regiment, the first all-Black regiment in the Northeast, inspired more than 180,000 Black men to enlist during the Civil War. The regiment fought at the assault on Fort Wagner, James Island, the Battle of Olustee, and Honey Hill.”
Boston Fed Fri 26 Feb 2021 21:07

To wrap up the #BlackHistoryMonth celebration, Kisha Wilson, paralegal, highlights the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial: “It is often overlooked that Black Americans have served in every major American conflict, including the Civil War.” https://t.co/hB33QM6Xsz
Boston Fed Fri 26 Feb 2021 20:47

RT @BostonGlobe: The Great Divide: Massachusetts and other New England states should create more affordable housing in well-to-do suburbs i…
Boston Fed Wed 24 Feb 2021 15:55

Trotter became a newspaper editor and a Boston-based civil rights activist. In 1901, he founded the Boston Guardian, an independent African American newspaper that he used to speak out against injustice. He helped found the @NAACP and the Niagara Movement.
Boston Fed Tue 23 Feb 2021 22:24