INDIANAPOLIS –Two people have joined the board of the Indiana Credit Union League, including:
* Afena Federal Credit Union President/CEO Karen Gilliam-Brown, who was elected to a three-year term to represent credit unions in central Indiana’s District 2, which includes Grant County and other communities where the credit union has a presence. She has also been named to the board of directors of the Indiana Credit Union Foundation.
Gilliam-Brown has been at the helm of Afena FCU since 2014, and she has worked in a variety of upper management-level and leadership positions at banks and credit unions throughout the country. Her professional passions include financial literacy and community service. In addition to her work at the credit union, she is a member of the League’s Audit & Finance Committee and its Products & Services Committee. She is also on the board of directors of the Grant County Chamber of Commerce and LEAD, Inc., which develops leaders of strong character in Grant County; she is director/Treasurer for Circles of Grant County, which empowers families to move out of poverty; she serves on IU Kokomo’s advisory board where she works with other community leaders to identify educational needs in Grant County and support the educational process of IU Kokomo, and she is a Rotarian.
* ProFed Federal Credit Union (FCU) Executive Vice President Nina Baker, who was elected to a three-year term to represent credit unions in northern Indiana’s District 1 which includes Fort Wayne and other communities where the credit union has a presence. She has also been named to the board of directors of the Indiana Credit Union Foundation.
Baker began working at the credit union more than 32 years ago as a teller and has since worked in nearly every area of ProFed FCU. In her current role of Executive Vice President, her primary responsibilities include overseeing the Finance and Accounting, IT, Facilities, and Account Management and Recovery departments. At the League, she also serves on the Products & Services Committee.
In 2005, she was elected to the board of the Northeastern Indiana Credit Union Chapter and, since 2012, has served as its President. She has focused her attention on providing quality educational sessions for the benefit of the employees and volunteers of the chapter’s member credit unions, and often, also for those of credit unions from outside the chapter.
Outside of the credit union business, Baker serves on the parish council board of the church her family attends and is currently its Treasurer. She served eight years as a founding member of the Advisory Board of a local high school’s Academy of Finance, an organization dedicated to preparing students as the work force of the future.
Baker graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business, with a concentration in management. She and Scott, her husband of 24 years, have raised three sons who all attend Manchester University.