Chairman Johnson to Participate in
Atlanta Financial
Literacy Events
Who : National Credit Union Administration
(NCUA) Chairman JoAnn Johnson
What: Participates in A Day of
Hope with Ambassador Andrew Young; Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Operation Hope, Inc. John Bryant; City of Atlanta Mayor
Shirley Franklin; former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp; Dorothy I. Height;
and other high ranking federal and state officials to announce a citywide
commitment to educate every middle and high school student in financial
literacy in the Atlanta Public School District. Operation HOPE will
be issuing a national report on financial literacy.
In recognition of financial literacy month, Chairman Johnson will
participate in an Operation Hope “Banking On Our Future” teaching
session and press conference at Jean Childs Young Middle School; and
serve as a panelist on “From Civil Rights to Silver Rights: The
Dawning of a New Movement in the 21st Century America” with United
States Securities Exchange Commissioner Paul S. Atkins; Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Donald E. Powell; and corporate
financial industry CEOs to discuss financial literacy and economic
empowerment.
Where : Jean Childs Young Middle School, 3116 Benjamin
E. Mays Drive, SW, Atlanta, Ga., for the Operation HOPE/Atlanta Public
Schools Press Conference at 10 a.m.
“From Civil Rights to Silver Rights: The Dawning of a New Movement
in 21st Century America” at the Andrew Young School of Policy
Studies; Georgia State University; Student University Center, 44 Courtland
Street, Suite 345, Atlanta, Ga., at 12:30 p.m.
When: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 , at 10 a.m. and 12:30
p.m.
President George W. Bush designated JoAnn Johnson as Chairman of
the National Credit Union Administration May 1, 2004 . The President
appointed Chairman Johnson to a seat on the NCUA Board in 2002. A former
teacher, Chairman Johnson was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1994 and
served as Chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and the Commerce
Committee.
The National Credit Union Administration, governed by a three-member
board appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, is the
independent federal agency that regulates, charters and supervises
federal credit unions. NCUA, with the backing of the full faith and
credit of the U.S. government, also operates and manages the National
Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF), insuring the deposits of
over 83 million account holders in all federal credit unions and the
overwhelming majority of state-chartered credit unions.
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