Sentences with phrase «as a community organizer»

Having worked as a community organizer naturally draws me into public space and discourse, to bring people together around a concept, an issue or a dream.

She has provided case management, worked in community development and as a community organizer in a legislative setting.

Additionally, I bring years of experience as a community organizer, historian, and mediator.

In my work as a community organizer, and my years of work as a «community activist,» I have been in and out of many.

At college, Capraro heard [civil rights activist] Stokely Carmichael admonish whites to fight racism in their own communities, and Capraro has spent the last 40 years as a community organizer working for racial integration and economic development in his home neighborhood of Marquette Park, once a national symbol of racial hatred.

He served for years as a community organizer for CAUSE, a Ventura based nonprofit, and headed the group's efforts to stop a proposed big - box retail development in Ventura.

Obama re-told his conversion story of how he worked as a community organizer with church members.

After chairing the school's first Commission on the Status of Women as a Kansas undergraduate, Paretsky worked as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side during the turbulent race riots of 1966.

The Somali immigrant has served as a community organizer in Minneapolis for years before deciding to run for the House of Representatives, a journey captured by director Norah Shapiro for her documentary Time for Ilhan.

More than a decade later, a young Obama moved from New York to Chicago to work as a community organizer at the Altgeld Gardens public housing project.

And he recalled his own experiences hearing the call to prayer as a boy in Indonesia and working alongside Muslims as a community organizer in Chicago.

I wrote an article in 2012 in the New York Times Magazine about Roseland, where Fenger is located, connecting the school's situation to President Obama's policies as president and his past as a community organizer in that neighborhood.

Brad brings the values he learned as a community organizer to the City Council.

Ampry - Samuel has a long history with NYCHA — she grew up in public housing, helped tenants as a community organizer and eventually worked for the authority.

Kerri Harris, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Delaware, works a full - time job as a community organizer in addition to campaigning for office.

Speaking in the newly renovated City Council chambers, Quinn appeared to distance herself from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, harkening back to her roots as a community organizer and stressing the power of communities to create a kinder, gentler New York.

When we're engaging parents, school staff act more as community organizers who help parents do things for themselves, and who elicit from parents ideas about what parents and school staff could be doing to better help their child and their community.

While sharpening her skills as a community organizer, Miranda has also continued to focus on her own art and creativity.

Born in Baghdad, Iraq and grew up in Montreal, Canada, Edward studied political science and philosophy at McGill University and spent several years as a community organizer before taking up photography.

I couldn't help but think that there is something very fitting and resonant in the fact that Barack Obama cut his political teeth as a community organizer in the blessed unrest of the movement for social justice.

This workshop is for faculty, administrators, staff and student activists of all disciplines, as well as community organizers and city officials and planners, who wish to interconnect and integrate sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion into their campus, curriculum and departments, with particular goals of:

We asked Maggie how she stays inspired as a community organizer and environmental activist.

Nadine volunteers as a community organizer and is advocate for those with mental illness and other marginalized populations and facilitate local Asset - Based Community Development initiatives.

Yasmin previous positions include serving as a community organizer with Green Corps, an information officer at the New York City Department of Education's Office of the Arts and Special Projects, and a senior strategist at GOODcorps.

As I said, I am no fan of Tatchell, but the idea of him being racist is about as plausible as a claim that Adolf Hitler is alive and well and working as a community organizer on the south side of Chicago.

Began his career as a community organizer working with family farmers during the farm crisis of the 1980s.

Fritz explains the work he does as a community organizer and political operative, his views about Governor Cuomo's tenure, his take on the Cuomo - Nixon primary, why moderates and Republicans shouldn't be afraid of progressives, and more.

In addition to this training, I bring my years of experience as a community organizer and historian, work which involved legal, human rights and environmental issues, as well as recording oral histories.

Larry Ferlazzo began teaching in 2003 after working as a community organizer for nearly twenty years.

Like President Barack Obama, Kevin Walker began working as a community organizer in the early 1980's.

When Obama landed on Chicago's South Side in 1985 as an idealistic 23 - year - old, eager to start work as a community organizer, he was already a political liberal.

He spent the majority of his post-graduate career working as a community organizer.

Debby Irving brings to racial justice the perspective of working as a community organizer and classroom teacher for 25 years without understanding racism as a systemic issue or her own whiteness as an obstacle to grappling with it.

She worked in various capacities with city and state legislators and as a community organizer in Brownsville before moving to Ghana, West Africa to work in the US Embassy; managing a Human Rights and Community Development portfolio.

«Maurice has spent twenty years working as a community organizer, electoral operative and social movement strategist.

As a community organizer and board member of Community Board 3, advocating for disability rights has always been a priority.

«As community organizers and advocates, our job has been to push hard and raise our voices for the real affordability and good jobs that low - income New Yorkers so desperately need,» Maritza Silva - Farrell, campaign director of Real Affordability for All, said in a statement.

Marthone, of Jamaica, Queens, has worked as a community organizer and is a founding chairman of the Lady Mitz Foundation, which focuses on HIV / AIDS education.

«I have been working as a community organizer in this district at the heart of that grassroots movement.»

Paul has represented the people of Queens as a lawyer and as a community organizer for his entire life.

«Advocating for good government has always been a priority of mine and I am proud of my work as a community organizer for campaign finance reform.

As a community organizer with New York Communities for Change, you will have the responsibility of organizing and working with neighborhood members to fight to keep our neighborhoods affordable, strengthen our schools, bring better jobs to our communities, and more.

So, Michelle had a decent measure of the man by the time they headed to the South Side rec center where Barack had once worked as a community organizer.