Jim Carr is the Coleman A. Young Endowed Chair and Professor in Urban Affairs at Wayne State University, Visiting Fellow with the Roosevelt Institute, and Contributor to Forbes Magazine. He is also Chairman and CEO of Turquoise Bay Investment Partners, an Expert with the Institute for New Economic Thinking and consultant with the Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Previously, Jim served as Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress. Prior to that he held the position of Chief Business Officer for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition where he established and managed minority- and women-owned business centers in Washington, DC, New York, NY, and Houston, TX, that assisted their clients to access $1.8 billion in capital and $350 million in federal contracts. Jim also held the position of Senior Vice President for Financial Innovation, Planning and Research for the Fannie Mae Foundation where he built one of the nation’s most prestigious housing and urban policy research centers that attracted subscribers for its research and policy publications from more than 30 countries. He also served as Assistant Director for Tax Policy and Federal Credit with the U.S. Senate Budget Committee.