Ron Stubblefield

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Ronald E. Stubblefield is the director of housing and place-based initiatives at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, where he leads strategies to align capital, community, and execution to advance equitable housing and economic development. His work focuses on building systems that move projects to scale and expand pathways to stability and ownership. He is an appointee to the City of Cincinnati’s Housing Advisory Board and serves on the International Economic Development Council’s Reimagining Equitable Economic Development Advisory Committee. He has also served as a federal reviewer and is a member of the LISC Greater Cincinnati Local Advisory Committee.

A group of Black men, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, at a protest. Some of the men hold signs with a rainbow graphic that read "Save our homes! Rainbow Push Coalition," in capital letters.

From the Field

From Protest to Power: Housing, Capital, and Rev. Jackson’s Unfinished Agenda

May 15, 2026 | Ron Stubblefield

Rev. Jesse Jackson’s passing reminds us of the need to combine political and economic organizing—and to translate protest gains into lasting structural change.