Board Member Feature: Bobby Boone

Our board members are truly remarkable. Outside of their work with NDC and the time they commit to their professional careers, they also volunteer and hold roles at other organizations!

Booby Boone, NDC board member and Founder and Chief Strategist at &Access, is also a Senior Leader for the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network (SBAN). They JUST released a documentary, We’re Still Here, which tells the story of communities fighting commercial gentrification in Miami’s Little Santo Domingo, Chicago’s Puerto Rico Town, and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Boyle Heights and East LA. The film follows SBAN on case study visits hosted by The Allapattah Collaborative (Miami), the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Chicago), and Inclusive Action for the City (Los Angeles). 

The new case study collection and film highlight community organizing efforts and diverse small business anti-displacement tools and strategies. These include community property ownership, culturally relevant technical assistance, Main Street models, new types of small business loan financing, unionization, construction disruption assistance, and cultural heritage preservation. 

On behalf of SBAN and &Access, we are SO excited to share a trailer of the new SBAN Documentary produced by Unchained Stories.