Lael Brainard took office as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on June 16, 2014, to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2026.

Prior to her appointment to the Board, Dr. Brainard served as Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury from 2010 to 2013 and Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury in 2009. During this time, she was the U.S. Representative to the G20 Finance Deputies and G7 Deputies and was a member of the Financial Stability Board. She received the Alexander Hamilton Award for her service.

Patrick Dujakovich has been president of the Greater Kansas City AFL-CIO since 2010, representing organized labor in the Kansas City area. Until his retirement in 2016, Dujakovich was also a career firefighter who served the Kansas City Fire Department for more than 30 years. He was promoted several times throughout his career and received numerous awards for exceptional service. In addition, he held leadership positions in the International Association of Firefighters Local #3808 from 2002 to 2010. Dujakovich served on the Federal Reserve Board’s Community Advisory Council in 2015.

Dujakovich was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He is married and has three children.

City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Juan Salgado has focused his more than 20-year career on improving education and economic opportunities for residents in low-income communities. As chancellor, Salgado oversees Chicago’s community college system, serving more than 80,000 students across seven colleges.

From 2001 to 2017, he served as CEO of Instituto del Progreso Latino, where he worked to empower residents of Chicago’s Southwest Side through education, citizenship, and skill-building programs that led to sustainable employment and economic stability.

Chancellor Salgado is a community college graduate himself, earning an associate degree from Moraine Valley Community College, prior to earning a bachelors degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, and a masters degree in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Chancellor Salgado has been nationally recognized for his work, including as a 2015 MacArthur Fellow, one of the most prestigious innovation prizes in the United States. Among his civic commitments, he serves as a board member of the Obama Foundation.

Andy Van Kleunen is the Chief Executive Officer of National Skills Coalition, which he founded in 2000 in collaboration with leaders from the workforce development and philanthropic communities. Andy has since led the Coalition to become a nationally recognized voice on behalf of a variety of stakeholders—including business leaders, labor leaders, community colleges, community-based organizations, and leaders from the public workforce system—who have come together to advocate for an America that grows its economy by investing in its people. Andy is a recognized expert on workforce and education policy issues and is regularly invited to advise Congress, the federal government and state agencies.

Prior to founding the coalition, Andy was Director of workforce policy for the national Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, where he worked with employers, unions and client advocates to improve job quality and training for low-wage workers within the nation's long-term care sector. Andy also spent over 14 years in community organizing and development efforts within several of New York City’s low-income and working-class neighborhoods.

He holds a master’s degree in urban sociology from the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research, and a bachelor’s degree in political science and honors studies from Villanova University. He is based in Philadelphia and Washington, DC.