Sentences with phrase «as a community organizer on»

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.

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I need your support as I find myself on the ballot alongside some excellent candidates this year, including former CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein, former Industry Canada executive Helen McDonald, community organizer Marita Moll, and current board members such as CNOC's Bill Sandiford and Bill Gibson.

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.

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.

Since 2012, Mr. Vinant - Tang has contributed to the Temecula Valley community as volunteer founder and organizer of Temecula Actors and Filmmakers with over 180 members on www.meetup.com.

As a feminist socialist organizer and international reproductive justice practitioner, I am committed to mitigating the harmful affects for - profit medical industries have on socially and economically marginalized communities.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

A group of first - time candidates is running to replace term - limited Bronx Councilwoman Annabel Palma: Democrats Elvin García, 30, former Bronx borough director for Mayor Bill de Blasio; Amanda Farias, 27, who served as director of special projects for Queens Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley; and community organizer Michael Beltzer, 31, who has served on the NYPD 43rd Precinct Community Council and volunteered on former City Comptroller John Liu's citywide community organizer Michael Beltzer, 31, who has served on the NYPD 43rd Precinct Community Council and volunteered on former City Comptroller John Liu's citywide Community Council and volunteered on former City Comptroller John Liu's citywide campaign.

Organizers hope the strategy to mobilize a local community will catch on as more and more coastal towns face the effects of climate change and the need to protect their shorelines.

A New Orleans based cultural organizer, philanthropy strategist, and curator with 13 years experience at the forefront of the arts and culture sector, her organizing and advocacy is focused on building spaces for the most marginalized to create work, and redirecting resources to communities of color as a matter of justice.

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.

Socialistworker.org describes him as a «veteran union militant and community organizer» and explains that Caputo - Pearl's organizing plan includes ``... increased member involvement in political action, and putting a priority on linking community - based social justice demands to our contract negotiations.»

Charles uses his expertise as an educational justice organizer, strategist, advocate, and fundraiser to support Education Cities» member organizations with their approaches to community engagement and advocacy, with a special emphasis on lifting up the voices and influence of the parents and families most impacted by educational inequity.

Through one - on - one coaching, fellowships, workshops and resources, LEE works to develop and inspire its members individually and collectively across all disciplines — as policy makers, advocates, elected leaders and community organizers.

Previously, she spent years as a community organizer working on housing justice, school reform, and electoral, state, and presidential campaigns including the Obama Campaign in 2008.

«For children in urban communities with increased class sizes and decreased funding, the tests are a way to prove that the schools are failing so they can be closed and re-opened as charter schools,» said Morna McDermott, a founding organizer of United Opt Out, which issues state - by - state guidance on the topic.

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.

One - third of the state's parolees settle in the 55 square blocks of Los Angeles known as Skid Row, and State of Incarceration» $» developed collaboratively by LAPD's Skid Row artists and in dialogue with organizers and recent parolees» $» powerfully examines the consequences of California's penal system on individuals, families and communities.

IT is rare indeed to chance upon that hybrid artist / activist / community organizer: that gem of a person who not only successfully runs their own practice, developing thgeir work as a formidable artist, but also finds time to initiate and organize community meetings and projects on the side, supporting scores of other creative types on the up - and - up in the process.

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.

LOBET: When Green Belt organizers like Muriithi Kaburi visit a community, the energy between trainer and audience in a common native language — in this case Kikuyu — can be palpable, even if, as on this day, a wicked heat radiates down on the assembled through a metal church roof.

As a progressive, community organizer and a mother of two, Beth has spent the last thirty years in training to take on the trust and aspirations of her community, to secure a thriving, sustainable, just and compassionate future for us all.

'' [It is] imperative that WaterWealth engage as an intervenor to protect the water our community relies on,» says Ian Stephen, a community organizer with WaterWealth, since the City choose to engage only as a commenter in the process.

He also contributes tremendously to the body of knowledge provided by the ABA's Law Practice Management Division, helping to deliver high - quality practice management resources to lawyers as an organizer, speaker, and author, including books on LinkedIn and Facebook that are best - sellers in the legal community.