Press Release 4/28/21
Aisha Glover
NEW JERSEY – The Citizens Campaign today announced that Aisha Glover, Vice-President of Urban Innovation at Audible, Verdis Robinson, an Associate at the Kettering Foundation and civic engagement consultant, and Enrique Alonso, Principal at SJP Properties, venture investor, and former Director of the National Basketball Association(NBA) for Latin America have joined its Board of Trustees.
Verdis Robinson
“We are thrilled to have Aisha, Verdis and Enrique on board,” said Harry Pozycki, Founder and Chair of The Citizens Campaign. “Taken together, their strategic skills, experience in empowering underserved communities and individuals and entrepreneurial talents will add immense value to our Board of Trustees.”
Aisha Glover said, “The Citizens Campaign’s work in closing the civic empowerment gap and adding a new citizen-driven dimension to American leadership is vital for rejuvenating our democracy and is especially important for residents of
cities like Newark. I am looking forward to furthering this mission in every way I can.” At Audible, Glover leads a team dedicated to advancing equitable economic development solutions in cities world-wide with special emphasis on Newark where the company is based. She served for 5 years as the President & CEO of the Newark Alliance and Invest Newark. In those capacities, she worked in partnership with Mayor Ras J. Baraka and oversaw a range of community-focused economic development initiatives. The Citizens Campaign facilitates the Newark Civic Trust, about 2 dozen citizen leaders who work together to leave Newark better than they found it, meeting monthly in No-Blame problem-solving sessions, advancing solutions to the challenges facing the city and sharing the power of a solutions-focus with their fellow Newarkers.
Verdis Robinson said, “The Citizen Leadership Centers being developed and advanced by The Citizens Campaign and based primarily at community colleges will give people the tools they need to take personal responsibility for bettering their communities and their nation.” Prior to coming on board at Kettering, Robinson served as Director of Community College Engagement at Campus Compact and as a tenured Assistant Professor of History and African-American Studies at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY.
Enrique Alonso said, “The non-ideological, solutions-focused approach of The Citizens Campaign empowers all Americans to participate and lead effectively beyond the ballot in the governance of their communities and country.” Alonso also served as a management consultant with Bain and Company advising businesses all over the world, among other posts, prior to his current roles.
Enrique Alonso
Among the other members of the 17 member Board of Trustees are: Dennis Bone, Retired President, Verizon, NJ, Director, Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship, Montclair State University and former Chair of the Newark Alliance; James E. Johnson, Corporation Counsel for New York City and former Under Secretary of the US Treasury; Maria Vizcarrando, President & CEO of the NJ Council of Grantmakers and the first director of Newark’s Department of Human and Family Services, serving under Corey Booker; and David Wilkinson, Executive Director of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale and a former senior Obama White House official, where he oversaw civic engagement.
The Citizens Campaign is a national community of citizen problem-solvers dedicated to adding a citizen driven dimension to our Country’s leadership capacity and to restoring service, civility and pragmatism to America’s political culture. For more information, visit: https://thecitizenscampaign.org/
