I obtained this list of board members a year or so ago when MHBCCC still had its website. The information presented here on the members is what I found on the web back then and more recently. I also attended a board meeting when the MHBCCC was still in operation. Board members Martinez and Washington were not present and Karlstrom participated by speaker phone.

Larry L. Simmons, Sr. (Chairman) - From the Detroit Free Press, 11/16/2007:

Two longtime aides to Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano resigned Thursday amid an internal investigation into whether the Department of Technology director gave a contract to a friend who didn't do the work required . . . Technology Director Larry Simmons, the former political chief for Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, resigned over questions about a contract given to Judy Bryant to work on department organization . . .

"A review of operations within the Wayne County Department of Technology has revealed process and oversight shortcomings that should have been handled better by the department," Simmons said in a statement. Simmons, whose $142,500 annual salary made him at one time the third highest-paid member of the Ficano administration, also is pastor at Baber Memorial AME Church in Detroit.

Karla Swift - According to a report I found on the site www.unionfacts.com sometime in 2010 - a report that is no longer there - Karla Swift was making $112,077 a year as an administrative assistant with the UAW. And this is from Crain's Detroit Business, 10/3/2011:

State union delegates today elected former UAW organizer Karla Swift as president of the Michigan AFL-CIO at its annual convention in Detroit. . . .Swift retired as an organizing director for the UAW in 2008 and was We Are The People Michigan state director. She’s also a former consultant to Wayne County.

“Michigan’s jobs crisis is our number-one priority, and it should be the top priority in Lansing,” Swift said in a statement. “It is outrageous that instead, elected officials are using the devastating economy to attack the very workers that built the middle class here in our state and across the country.”

S. Olof Karlstrom - Lawyer from Flint, big contributor to Democratic campaigns. His wife, Olivia P. Maynard, is a member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents:

Regent Maynard is a Democrat from Goodrich. She received a B.A. degree from George Washington University in 1959 and an M.S.W. degree from the University of Michigan in 1971.

She is currently president of the Michigan Prospect. She serves as a trustee of the C.S. Mott Foundation and sits on the boards of the Nature Conservancy of Michigan, McLaren Regional Medical Center, the Council of Michigan Foundations, and the Council on Foundations. She is the former director of the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging.

She and her husband, attorney S. Olof Karlstrom, have 5 children and 13 grandchildren.

Cirilo Martinez - A few years ago, Mr. Martinez was on the board of directors of something called The Imagine Fund. He was described on the Fund's website - which no longer exists - as follows:

Mr. Martinez is an attorney and counselor at law currently representing clients in immigration, business and family law matters.  Current clients include the Michigan Department of Education, Mexican Consul in Detroit, Van Buren Intermediate School District, and Top Sargent Lawn Care, Inc.  Further, he handles complex international law matters for other firms, on a contract basis.  Previously, Mr. Martinez worked at Farmworker Legal Services; as a law clerk representing clients in divorce, custody and other civil matters; at legal services of Southwestern Michigan; as corporate coordinator of Project CAMINO at Michigan State University, and as a bilingual instructor in the Van Buren Intermediate School District.

Lisa Brewer-Walraven - Director, Office of Early Education and Care/Fed. Liaison, Michigan Department of Human Services.

Dr. Earlie Washington - According to this 7/26/06 article in the Western Michigan University News, Dr. Earlie Washington [is] dean of the College of Health and Human Services . . . Washington has been a member of the faculty and director of the School of Social Work since 2000. Previously, she was director and associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she had been a faculty member since 1992. She also has taught at the University of Chicago, Illinois State University and Tougaloo College. In addition, she has served in a variety of roles such as director of the Life Skills Pre-Employment Training and Counseling Program in Chicago and director of an elderly support project, also in Chicago. She has extensive experience directing funded grant and contract projects and is widely published on such topics as Internet-based instruction and behavioral programming for Alzheimer's clients. She earned her bachelor's degree from Tougaloo College, a master's degree from Ohio State University and her doctoral degree from the University of Chicago.