Patricia Garcia Duarte, Executive Vice President, Chicanos Por La Causa, INC

Mrs. Patricia Garcia Duarte is Executive Vice President, Homeownership Initiatives at Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. (CPLC), a multi-state nonprofit organization headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona dedicated to: Health & Human Services, Housing, Education, Economic Development, and Advocacy and President of CPLC Home Lending, LLC.

Mrs. Garcia Duarte is focused on building a homeownership ecosystem to narrow the wealth gap among Hispanic, Black, Asian, Indigenous and lowincome people. She previously, for 16 years, served as President and CEO at Trellis, an Arizona nonprofit, where she had the responsibilities of creating a housing vision and guiding the strategic goals to better serve clients, stakeholders, and communities. Mrs. Garcia Duarte holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Arizona State University.

For the last thirty-five years, she has worked in the community development sector. She is a former member of the Inaugural Community Advisory Board of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Community Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve. She has been a volunteer board member of non-profits groups that promote self-sufficiency through economic development and affordable housing opportunities to low and moderate-income individuals. She previously served on the City of Phoenix Commission on Housing and Neighborhoods, City of Mesa Housing Task Force, the Regional Workforce Housing Task Force, and the South-Central Transit Oriented Development Steering Committee for the City of Phoenix.

Currently, she is a board member at Community Housing Capital, a national Community Development Financial Institution; City of Phoenix, Parks & Preserve Initiative Oversight Committee, National NeighborWorks Association, Downtown Phoenix Community Development Corp., Rio Reinvestment & Redevelopment Committee, the Arizona Community Foundation and Governor’s Interagency and Community Council on Homelessness and Housing. She is also a community advisory member to Comerica Bank, Western Alliance Bank and Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Affordable Housing Advisory Council.

She is a past recipient of the following awards: 2009 Brian Mickelson Housing Hero Award, 2010 Lupe Sisneros Memorial Award, 2011 NNA Emerging Leader Award, 2011 BBVA Compass Visionary Team Leader Award, 2016 Outstanding Women in Business, 2016 Rosa Carrillo Humanitarian Award, 2022 Women of Achievement and 2023 Pete C Garcia Victoria Foundation Academic

Achievement Award.

As an advocate, she is attentive to matters that impact consumers, especially low-moderate income individuals and families. Mrs. Garcia Duarte is an Arizona native, raised in Yuma County and lives in Chandler, AZ.