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Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of PACE, Kerry Doi has over 4 decades of experience and expertise in all forms of community economic development.  As one of the largest Asian community development organizations in the United States, PACE successfully implements a variety of economic development and social service programs for low–income, ethnic minority residents in the Los Angeles area.  PACE programs serve more than 40,000 low–income residents annually with an operating budget in excess of $31 million and 300 staff.  PACE is committed to successfully developing and implementing programs that address root causes of poverty and promote economic self-sufficiency.  

Mr. Doi’s outstanding abilities in the field of community development are evidenced not only by his accomplishments at PACE, but by his extensive involvement and leadership in numerous local, state and national community development organizations. Locally, he is a board member of the Los Angeles Housing Partnership and the CA Community Economic Development Association (CCEDA).  On the national level, Kerry was a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) and was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans.  Additionally, Kerry is a founding member and the former national chair of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD), a national association of Asian and Pacific Islanders engaged in community development.  Mr. Doi also recently served on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Consumer Advisory Council.  In recognition of his years of service, he was presented with the 2013 Leadership Award by the Asian American Drug Abuse Program, an organization which he helped to found in 1972. 

In addition to his service to numerous organizations, Mr. Doi’s advice, insight and expertise is frequently sought by a wide range of local, state and federal officials and agencies in matters of community economic development—especially with regard to refugees, asylees, immigrants and other ethnic minority low–income communities. He has provided testimony on the “State of Asian American Pacific Islander Small Businesses” before the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) and Senate Democrats at the US Capitol.  He has also provided testimony on the Foreclosure Crisis before the Los Angeles Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.  The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe requested Mr. Doi’s testimony about his experience with “The Regional Impacts and Opportunities of Migration”.   

Mr. Doi has a strong commitment to excellence, education and lifelong learning.  He received a BS degree from California State University, Long Beach and has received certificates in Economic Development and Finance from the National Development Council, received an Organizational Development certificate from the Kellogg Training Institute, and completed Network for Excellence training at the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence Examiner Training in Washington DC.  In 2006, PACE received a Neighborhood Builder Award from Bank of America that included Development Training Institute seminars.  In 2008, Mr. Doi completed the prestigious Fannie Mae/Neighborhood Reinvestment Excellence in Community Development Program, at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.  Kerry was honored by Los Angeles public television station KCET in 2009 as a “Local Hero”.  He is currently serving on the Community Development Advisory Board of JPMorgan Chase Bank and continues to serve as a member of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, US Environmental Protection Agency.