Curtis Haynes, Jr.

Curtis Haynes, Jr.
Ellicott District Common Council Member
Current Term:
January 14th, 2010-December 31st, 2010

1408 City Hall
Phone: 716-851-4980 ♦ Fax: (716)851-6576
Email: chaynes@city-buffalo.com

Common Council Committees:
Civil Service - Member
Finance - Member
Legislation - Member

BACKGROUND

• Curtis Haynes, Jr. was appointed to the Common Council on January 14, 2010.  In his initial address to the Council, Haynes stated that his priorities are to:
  • ensure quality constituent services for both the residential and business communities of the Ellicott District;
  • focus attention on economic development with an emphasis on generating jobs,
  • and to strengthen Ellicott neighborhoods, especially in the areas of public safety and quality of life.
    
• His areas of expertise include economic systems, micro-economics, industrial organization, financial markets, personal finance and entrepreneurship. 
  
• Councilmember Haynes, an Associate Professor of Economics at Buffalo State College, was named Instructor of the Year in 1999, 2000 and 2006 by the Buffalo State College Student Government.

ACADEMIA

• Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Finance Buffalo State College, 1993-Present.  Tenured 1998.
  
• PhD, Economics University of Massachusetts, 1993.  Dissertation: “Cooperative Enterprise and Economic Development in Black America”.
  
• Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1991-1993.
  
• MA, Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1990.
  
• BA, Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1981.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• 2008-Present: Member of Local Economic Roundtable, a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on WNY economic conditions, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of NY and Cornell Labor Extension School.
  
• 2004-Present: President and Founder of the Conscious Investment Group, an independent local start-up offering tutorials in leadership to interested individuals in the areas of personal finance, entrepreneurship, investing, economics and the political economy.
  
• 2004-Present: Co-Founder and Partner of Mondragon Village Association, a real estate holding and management start up.  Renovated formerly neglected residential and commercial properties located on Whitney Place and Prospect Avenue, transforming them into desired community assets that have helped to spur other new private investment.
  
• 2004-Present: Union Steward and since 1993, Member, United University Professors, Buffalo State College.
  
• 1996-2000: Co-Founder, Resurgent City Center (RCC), a U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and State University of New York (SUNY) Research Foundation funded Community Outreach Partnership Center.  Based on the Buffalo State College campus, the RCC provided a link between campus and community resources.
  
• 1996-1999: Partnered the relationship between RCC and the Our Market Project, a broad-based grassroots effort to establish a community-owned and operated supermarket in the under-served Masten District.
  
• 1998-1999: Through the RCC, built a team that worked with Frederick Douglass Towers residents, generating forums with the tenant council and tenants, and brokering a relationship between them, NORSTAR Bank and the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA), that resulted in retaining some of the towers, establishing an on-site community center and ensuring that those who wanted to stay were not displaced.
  
• 1996-1999: Economic consultant to the Buffalo Community Partnership and Our Market Development Project.
  
• 1996-1996: Economic Advisory Group Member, Black Community Crusade for Children, funded by the Children’s Defense Fund, Washington DC.
  
• 1991-1993: Instructor in the University Without Walls Program at Comstock Maximum Security Prison.
  
• 1984-Present:  Center for Popular Economics, Amherst, Massachusetts.  A training center where progressive economists teach popular economics to community activists and labor leaders.