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<h3>Eva Clarke<br>
President & Chief Executive Officer</h3>
<p>Eva was born in San Rafael, California, but when she was a young girl,
her family relocated first to East Saint Louis, Illinois and then to the neighboring
town of <a href="http://www.belleville.net/" target="_blank" title="opens new window">Belleville</a>.
The experience of living in East Saint Louis during the city's stark
decline prompted her initial interest in community and economic development.
Eva left
Belleville in 1977 to attend the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/" title="opens new window" target="_blank">Massachusetts
Institute of Technology</a> as a member of the class of 1981. She took a few
years off
to start a family and then returned to MIT where
she
earned
an
S.B.
degree
in
Urban
Studies
and
Planning in 1990.</p>
<p>In 1991 Eva joined the staff of <a href="http://www.bostoncommunitycapital.org/loanfund/index.html" target="_blank">Boston
Community Loan Fund *</a> initially as a loan
officer, and subsequently rising to the position of Senior Loan Officer
and eventually Chief Operating Officer. In 2001 she left the Loan Fund to
found <a href="http://www.faithpartnershipinc.org/" target="_blank">Faith
Partnership</a>, inspired by her
dream of linking faith-based organizations to strategic resources in their
communities. <a href="http://www.bostoncommunitycapital.org/" target="_blank">Boston
Community Capital *</a>, the loan fund's parent organization, provided
significant support for the new organization and served as its first fiscal
agent.</p>
<p>In January 2002, as the outcome of one of Faith Partnership's projects, Eva
agreed to serve as Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.mattapancdc.org/" target="_blank">Mattapan
Community Development Corporation *</a>. In this role she gained a great
deal of practical experience in hands-on community development work, thus complementing
the skills she had acquired in her earlier career as a community development
lender. By this time Eva had also been serving for several years as a volunteer
pastor at New Covenant Christian Church (located in Boston, Massachusetts and
now
known
as
<a href="http://www.jubileeboston.org/" target="_blank">Jubilee
Christian Church International *</a>). In the fall of 2002 she
joined the New Covenant staff on a part-time basis as their
Real Estate Administrator.</p>
<p>In November 2003 Eva and her husband, <a href="http://www.lifechurchministries.org/about/bio-reclarke.shtml" target="_blank">Rocklyn
E. Clarke Sr. *</a>, founded <a href="http://www.lifechurchboston.org/" target="_blank">Life
Church *</a> , the Boston congregation where she serves as Assistant
Pastor .</p>
<p>In February 2005 Eva left her position as Executive Director and spend the
next few months focusing on projects for Faith Partnership, and Life Church.
In November 2005 she became a managing consultant with <a href="http://aes-egc.org/" target="_blank">Applied
Evaluation Systems (AES)*</a>, the consulting enterprise of the <a href="http://www.egc.org/" target="_blank">Emmanuel
Gospel Center *</a>. In October 2006 she left AES to join <a href="http://www.mmafin.com/">MMA
Financial</a> as an Asset Manager and Assistant Vice President.</p>
<p>As an active member of the community she
volunteers with the following organizations:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.bostoncommunitycapital.org/loanfund/index.html" target="_blank">Boston
Community Loan Fund *</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Eva resides in Dorchester, MA with
her
husband
Rocklyn E. Clarke.</p>
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