Sentences with phrase «tenants as a community organizer»
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.
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«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.
Espaillat talks about his record as a «community advocate with a progressive record as a tenant organizer and as an agent committed to reforming state government.»
«As a union organizer, a tenant advocate, and a community board member, I've been an activist my entire life, and I am ready to take my experience and values to Albany,» Alcantara said Tuesday.
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.
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.