R.L. Condra is Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Government Programs for National Cooperative Bank (NCB). He is responsible for advocating for issues that directly impact NCB’s cooperative customer segments. Since joining NCB, he has advocated for cooperatives to have access to Small Business Administration lending programs, risk retention changes for cooperative housing, and the Rural Cooperative Development Grant (RCDG) program for cooperative development centers. Condra currently serves on the board of the Food Cooperative Initiative and Cooperation Works, a national network of organizations and individuals working on co-op development and advocacy for co-op organizations. Prior to joining NCB, he was Vice President of Advocacy for the NCBA CLUSA and spent several years on Capitol Hill as a staff member on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Nutrition and as Director of Congressional Affairs for the Delta Regional Authority.