Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, Ph.D., is chief executive officer of Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA), a community development corporation dedicated to empowering and engaging individuals and families to improve their lives through high-quality affordable housing, education, and arts programs. Under Vanessa’s leadership since 2003, IBA has become the largest Latino-led nonprofit organization in Greater Boston. It controls a portfolio of 667 affordable housing units in its South End Villa Victoria development and in Roxbury and Mattapan. Vanessa was selected as a Barr Fellow in 2009, and in 2010, she became the first Latina ever to be appointed to the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Seconda