Martin Eakes
Martin Eakes
Overview
Martin Daniel Eakes is an American economic development strategist, and credit union CEO. Eakes grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated from Davidson College, where he majored in physics and philosophy, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.P.P. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 1980, he co-founded the Center for Community Self-Help in Durham. Self-Help provides consumer financial services technical support and advocacy for those left out of the economic mainstream. The nonprofit is headquartered in North Carolina and has offices in California, Washington, D.C., and Illionois. Through Self-Help's Center for Responsible Lending, Eakes has advocated for fair lending practices and sound economic policies.[1] In 1998, he helped form the Coalition for Responsible Lending.
