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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Brenda Gaines
Brenda Gaines
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| Other authors / contributors: | Gaines, Brenda, 1949- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 January 24.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Corporate executive and city administrator Brenda J. Gaines grew up in North Chicago, Illinois, and received her B.A. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her M.P.A. degree from Roosevelt University. From 1980 until 1983, she worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In September 1983, Gaines was appointed to Chicago Housing Authority. Two years later, Chicago Mayor Harold Washington appointed her deputy chief of staff. After Washington died in 1987, Gaines entered corporate America. She joined Citibank and quickly rose to senior vice president in charge of residential lending. In 1992, she moved to the Citigroup subsidiary Diners Club and was named president of Diners Club North America in 1999, where she served until 2004. Black Enterprise included Gaines on its list of the Top Fifty Blacks in Corporate America, and Gaines was named one of the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America by Fortune in 2002.
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