Sentences with phrase «beginnings as a community activist»

Beyond citing his work as a City Councilmember, a State Assemblymember, the city's Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, and as the appointed Chair of a National Education Commission, he also pointed to humbler beginnings as a community activist and schoolteacher.

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I want to offer some information on our early organizing work to help engage existing soil - based as well as other community - driven urban ag growers, activists, and leaders as local elected officials begin to consider the development of urban ag policy...

Lopez cut his teeth as a community activist and began assembling an empire when he founded the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a non-profit that provided services to seniors primarily in Bushwick, Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens.

As the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countrieAs the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countrieas it will in developing countries.

I began this journey as an activist at 13 — and there's no reason we can not and should not inspire, educate and mobilize from the youngest of ages in every community, beginning today.