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rey ramsey
 rey ramsey
rey ramsey

rey ramsey is an american social justice entrepreneur , author , and the former ceo of the one economy corporation , a nonprofit he co-founded in 2000 .
ramsey received a ba in political science from rutgers university , where he was a member of cap and skull , and zbt fraternity , and a law degree from the university of virginia school of law .
after graduating from law school , ramsey went to work for the portland law-firm stoel rives .
he soon left his job at the firm to pursue a career with the oregon state economic development department , where he was director of the oregon housing and community services department under governors neil goldschmidt and barbara roberts .
ramsey then worked for the enterprise community partners , first as senior vice president and later became president .
ramsey served two terms on the habitat for humanity international board of directors , elected as vice-chairman in 2001 and then as chairman in 2003 .
during his chairmanship , the board fired habitat founder millard fuller .
ramsey is currently on the board of the local initiatives support corporation and the washington jesuit academy .
ramsey has been a proponent of the portland citywide wireless initiative .
