Randy Chambers is the President of Self-Help Credit Union, which serves over 93,000 members through 36 branches in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Self-Help is a national non-profit community development financial institution headquartered in Durham, NC.
Randy also supervises the consumer banking operations of Self-Help Federal Credit Union, which serves 103,000 members through 39 branches in California, Illinois, Washington and Wisconsin. Self-Help also includes Self-Help Ventures Fund, the nation’s largest non-depository community development financial institution; the Center for Responsible Lending, a national non-profit research and policy organization; and the Center for Community Self-Help, the umbrella organization for Self-Help, first founded in 1980. Randy was previously Self-Help’s Chief Financial Officer.
He was Chair of Inclusiv (formerly the National Federation of Community Development CUs), the national intermediary for credit unions serving low-income communities and Secretary of Generations Community CU, which served African American communities in North Carolina. Randy co-founded Latino Community CU, the first Latino financial institution in North Carolina, where he served as Treasurer from 2000-2010. He has also served on the boards of El Pueblo, Walltown Children’s Theatre and Judea Reform Congregation.
Most importantly, Randy and his wife Heather, a public school guidance counselor, are the parents of three energetic, awesome adolescents. He holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Duke University and a B.A. from Pomona College.