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Denise Fairchild

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Denise Fairchild is president and CEO of Emerald Cities Collaborative, a national nonprofit organization of business, labor and community groups dedicated to climate-resilience strategies that produce environmental, economic and equity outcomes.

In 1995, Fairchild founded the Community and Economic Development Department at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, as well as an affiliated nonprofit community-development research and technical assistance organization, CDTech. During the adminisration of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, she served as special adviser for South Los Angeles investments.

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