Planning Leader Group

The one-year One Community planning process will be jointly led by the Pinellas County Urban League, the Collective Empowerment Group of the Tampa Bay Area, and The 2020 Plan Taskforce, with the New Deal Team as a founding collaborator.

These core leaders will engage a constellation of diverse partners to shape the plan and breathe life into its parts. Other plan leaders will include a Plan Development Committee made-up of leaders of economic growth initiatives operating and emerging in South St. Petersburg will convene monthly to advise to the plan.

Gypsy C. Gallardo

CEO, The 2020 Plan Grow Smarter Steering Committee St. Petersburg Economic Development Committee Founding Investor Gypsy is CEO of Urban Market Analytics, a Florida-based firm that specializes in designing, funding, and evaluating place-based solutions that “move the needle” of economic progress for low-income people and communities, including redevelopment strategies, community economy growth plans, and…

Watson Haynes, II

President & CEO, Pinellas County Urban League Grow Smarter Steering Committee Member Rev. Watson L. Haynes II, President & CEO of the Pinellas County Urban League, which serves as a change agent to address generational poverty with the major focus areas of Economic Development, Housing, Education and Health Initiatives. The service areas of the Pinellas…

Michael D. Jalazo

Leader, CRA Workforce Collaborative CEO, Pinellas Ex-Offender Re-Entry Coalition Mr. Jalazo the CEO/Executive Director of the Pinellas Ex-Offender Re-Entry Coalition (PERC), which works toward the successful re-entry of prisoners to Pinellas County, Florida from the state Department of Corrections and the Pinellas County Jail. PERC has worked with the last three Governor’s administrations in…

Nikki Capehart

Urban Affairs Director, City of St. Petersburg Former Deputy District Director for Congresswoman Kathy Castor Former Assistant VP of Community Development Banking for AmSouth Bank. Appointed by the Mayor, Nikki is the City of St. Petersburg’s Director of Urban Affairs where she works to develop the policy agenda for South St. Petersburg across city departments,…

Bro John Muhammad

Brother John Muhammad Lead Organizer / Convener, New Deal for St. Pete Co-Founder / Executive Director, Community Development & Training Center, Inc (CDAT) President, Childs Park Neighborhood Association Tampa Bay Regional Lead, Service Employees International Union (SEIU FL) Bro John Muhammad is Co-Founder of the Community Development & Training Center, Inc., a Multi Sector Non…

Rev. Louis M. Murphy, Sr.

Senior Pastor, Mt Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church Ex-Officio Board Member, Mt Zion Human Services Advisory Board Member, Pinellas Community Foundation Rev. Murphy has dedicated his pastoral career to kingdom building, inside and outside the walls of Mt. Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, where he was installed as Senior Pastor in 1999. Murphy entered the…

Planning Leader Group

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