CIU Staff

The Shriver Center's Community Investment Unit (CIU) takes action to end poverty by advocating policies that expand asset-building opportunities to complement traditional income-support programs

Through national, state, and local advocacy and model programs, CIU strengthens families and communities by expanding opportunities to build, own, and protect personal and financial assets.

Dory Rand

doryrand@povertylaw.org
(312) 263-3830 x 228

Dory Rand is supervising attorney of the Shriver Center's community investment unit. Dory is co-coordinator of the Illinois Asset Building Group and a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Center for Economic Education.

Publications include: “Reforming State Rules on Asset Limits: How to Remove Barriers to Saving and Asset Accumulation in Public Benefit Programs” (March-April 2007) and “Using the Community Reinvestment Act to Promote Checking Accounts for Low-Income People" (May 1999) in /Clearinghouse Review/ and “Financial Education and Asset Building Programs For Welfare Recipients and Low-Income Workers: The Illinois Experience” at http://www.brookings.edu/urban/publications/20040413_doryrand.htm.

Dory formerly was editor-in-chief of /Illinois Welfare News/ (now /Poverty Action Report/) and a senior attorney with the Shriver Center's welfare team specializing in food and nutrition programs and electronic delivery of government benefits. Before coming to the Shriver Center, she was a senior attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, an associate at Mandel, Lipton & Stevenson, Ltd., and a staff attorney at ACLU of Illinois.

Dory is a 1982 graduate of the Ohio State University College of Law. In her free time, Dory is an avid amateur triathlete.

Kelly E. Slay

Kelly is serving as the CIU VISTA. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Psychology. Before joining the Shriver Center, Kelly held marketing and sales positions with General Motors. She also volunteered with several community service projects in the Detroit area, worked in community relations with the Detroit Tigers and served as president and adviser to a national public service sorority. Kelly enjoys playing tennis and golf in her spare time. 

Brian Clappier

Brian Clappier is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a B.S. in biochemistry and political science.  Since finishing his undergraduate studies, Brian has worked as a School Partnership Coordinator with the Greater Homewood Community Corporation in Baltimore and as a middle school physics teacher with the Peace Corps in Guinea, West Africa.  After completing his two-year term of service overseas and prior to joining the CIU, Brian was a paralegal at the Washington, DC office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.