Martin Daniel Eakes is an American economic development strategist, and credit union CEO.
Eakes grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated from Davidson College, where he majored in physics and philosophy, and holds a J.D.
from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Self-Help provides consumer financial services technical support and advocacy for those left out of the economic mainstream.
[2] Eakes is a Trustee of the Ford Foundation and a member of its Education, Creativity and Free Expression Committee.