Sentences with phrase «as a community organizer in»

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.

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

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.

Trained as a community organizer in Guadalajara, Mexico, Cardinali served on a team organizing a «squatter» community of 120,000 to secure land rights, running water and public education.

Kevin Walker began working as a community organizer in the early 1980's.

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.

In that piece he proposed that Obama's early work as a community organizer in such neighborhoods in the 1980s may well have shaped how he built an administration focused on the human side of disaster preparedness and response.

But my experience with him predates my attending law school, when I worked as a community organizer in Springfield and sometimes accompanied tenants to eviction hearings in his courtroom.

In the companion piece, «A Defining Time of Advocacy,» reporter Michael Kranish revisits Obama's years as a community organizer in Chicago before heading to Harvard Law School in 1988.

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It's an idea that the organizers have apparently been looking into, with a 4,000 acre property in Northern Nevada even identified as the ideal site for a permanent community where the Burning Man principles of «radical inclusion» and «gifting» could be the law of the land year - round.

She has worked as a community organizer, political staff and has been a City Council candidate in Toronto.

To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons of principle (or valid reasons of any kind) for conceiving marriage or the equivalent as a two - person relationship, as opposed to a relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a polyamorous sexual partnership.

As a grassroots community organizer, I spend a lot of time in coalition and task force meetings, working groups and speaking events.

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.

Not recognizing that, not keeping that central, risks imbalance just as bad in the opposite direction: accepting people where they are but not calling them to move closer to Christ; distorting Christ from Redeemer to mere community activist and organizer.

This is not the place to trace in depth the history of Industrial Areas Foundation — its beginnings under «radical community organizer» Saul Alinsky in the Chicago of the 1940s, its entry into national prominence (and a certain notoriety) in the 1960s and 1970s as a result of its organizing role in The Woodlawn Organization (Chicago), the Kodak FIGHT controversy in Rochester, and similar community - industry and community - urban government struggles elsewhere.

In keeping with this theme, the conference organizers decided to create a community building exercise as one of the activities for the event.

Wellstone will provide a home for NOI's broad community of practitioners and power key elements of NOI's core programs, such as intensive, cohort - based skills training for emerging digital organizers and data managers looking to start careers in the field (known as Data and Digital BootCamps); shorter - form skills trainings that have been effective in helping established practitioners take their work to the next level; and events like RootsCamp, an «unconference» that provides key networking, best - practice sharing, and skills development for the progressive data and digital communities.

Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash machines, but also as organizers, block - walkers and pro-Obama voices in their own communities.

Pilgrim - Hunter, described in the press release touting her impending announcement as a «community organizer and president of Fordham Hill Cooperative Apartments,» is being repped by BerlinRosen, a firm started by Valerie Berlin and Jonathan Rosen — two veterans of the DSCC.

This is the latest in a string of renovations at the Court popularly known as the «Chinese Basketball Court» after the surface of the famed venue got repainted with the contributions of veteran players including Richard Borsah, Sandy Asiedu and Tema Community Basketball League organizer Fred Yeboah.

In the few hours since Republican V.P nominee Sarah Palin made fun of Barack Obama's community organizer background at her speech at the RNC, the Obama campaign has already sent out a mass fundraising email using her remarks as a hook: «Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people?

Marty is handed his third loss in four years, and the woman who was mocked for weeks by the Haley campaign as hopelessly stupid («She's a community organizer!»)

His challenger, Zephyr Teachout, might strike some as an unusual candidate — a constitutional law professor and community organizer, Teachout is not a politician in the traditional sense.

Organizers explained that Harlem had been chosen for the protest as it represents a neighborhood in flux, where soaring housing and commercial rents threaten to undermine the community's historic composition of working - class and middle - class life in New York.

«As a longtime housing advocate, tenant organizer, community activist, I've definitely been boots on the ground and in touch with the voters of the district,» Fernandez said.

One community group is hoping to bridge a gap in the Utica community as organizers want to improve relations among the community and law enforcement.

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.

A Trinidadian - American, he's very much involved in the community as a small business owner and organizer of sports programs for youth.

«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.

Jennifer Fuentes, a former Ward 5 alderwoman with a background as a labor and community organizer, helped Gallo win support from the Working Families Party, support Gallo has credited with giving him the margin of victory in the down - to - the - wire squeaker that was last September's primary race.

Alcantara's experience in the community as a labor and community organizer spans 20 years, and includes working alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Democratic District Leader in Harlem, according to her website.

Assemblyman Sean Ryan's decision leaves community organizer Amber Small as the likely Democrat in the race for the seat currently held by Senator Marc Panepinto.

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.

Rounding off the trio, Peekskill activist, Vanessa Agudelo, a lifelong Peekskill resident and community organizer involved in supporting city beautification and green projects expressed her appreciation as well.

Elvin Garcia has worked for Friends of Brook Park, an environmental justice organization, as a community representative for New York State Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo, as a field organizer for Obama's re-election campaign in 2012 and then as a Community Affairs Representative for State Senator Gustavcommunity representative for New York State Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo, as a field organizer for Obama's re-election campaign in 2012 and then as a Community Affairs Representative for State Senator GustavCommunity Affairs Representative for State Senator Gustavo Rivera.

I've known her and I've watched her and its clear that whether as a civil rights attorney working on gender discrimination cases or a grassroots community organizer, Jenifer has demonstrated time and again her ability and her interest and her willingness and her energy in building diverse coalitions to tackle community problems and to lead.

Both Bill and Doug are long - time community organizers and are exactly what Baltimore needs to break the stranglehold the Democratic party machine has had for decades as well as the pay - to - play system that benefits wealthy developers and political insiders and leaves the citizens of this city out in the cold.

Turning to email in a bid to up the engagement factor on a blog - based community might seem like a counter-intuitive evolution, but as we noted recently, many experienced online organizers still regard email as the not - so - secret killer app of online politics.

While his opponents in the Democratic primary — current Assemblymember Guillermo Linares and Carmen De La Rosa, a former chief of staff to Councilman Ydanis Rodríguez — might be better known on the city's broader political scene, Fernández insisted that his work as a Community Board Chair and tenant organizer has prepared him for a role in the Assembly.

He also worked as a field organizer in Nevada for former President Barack Obama's reelection campaign and as a community representative for Bronx State Sen. Gustavo Rivera and Bronx Assemblyman Marcos Crespo.

The event organizers and many in the Harlem community believe that events such as Cops and Kids Day are proactive ways to heal community and law enforcement relations and that safety is a shared responsibility.

«As a community, we are just in a mess,» said Shirley Carter, a community organizer and former nurse who had a big hand in the diabetes study.

Prior to joining the Center in 2007 she worked as an amphibian field biologist, conservation corps crew leader, and community organizer against mountaintop - removal coal mining.

Ilene also works as a freelance consultant and organizer and is an activist in her community, supporting neighborhood welfare and social justice.

As organizers of this inaugural event, we saw how eager our audience was for this kind of cross-sector gathering, and we hope this will mark the start of a continuing tradition: a community - wide network of stakeholders working collaboratively in a movement toward better outcomes for English - learner students.

You will contribute in so many ways — as researchers, teachers, principals, superintendents, literacy specialists, community organizers, higher education administrators, art specialists, policy analysts, leaders of education organizations, and leaders in government.

Fuller began a career as a social worker and community organizer in Durham, North Carolina, rising up through local and statewide organizations that were focused on improving public services and opportunities for poor black residents.

In the late 1970s, Fuller returned to Milwaukee to continue his work as a community organizer and to earn his PhD from Marquette University.

In New York City, the Educational Video Center (EVC) is working with teachers, parents, and community organizers to teach students video documentary production as a path to media analysis.