Sentences with phrase «well as community organizers»

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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.

Project organizers tell us they will use local contractors and local materials so the community can reap the benefits as well.

He worked as a union organizer fighting for good jobs and respect for workers and was elected President of the Community School Board for District 6, covering Washington Heights, Inwood and West Harlem.

«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.

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.

The mayor, who recently launched his reelection campaign, was joined by singer Cher, filmmaker Michael Moore, actors Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore and Rosie O'Donnell, as well as a number of community organizers, union leaders, and others.

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.

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.

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.

They heard from a local panel that included Montgomery Knolls» principal, community school coordinator, parent outreach coordinator, a parent, and a local organizer, as well as a national panel of researchers and practitioners including Dr. Reuben Jacobson (Coalition for Community Schools), Dr. Tina Trujillo (University California, Berkeley), Jitu Brown (Journey for Justice), and Dr. Mark Warren (University of Massachusetts,community school coordinator, parent outreach coordinator, a parent, and a local organizer, as well as a national panel of researchers and practitioners including Dr. Reuben Jacobson (Coalition for Community Schools), Dr. Tina Trujillo (University California, Berkeley), Jitu Brown (Journey for Justice), and Dr. Mark Warren (University of Massachusetts,Community Schools), Dr. Tina Trujillo (University California, Berkeley), Jitu Brown (Journey for Justice), and Dr. Mark Warren (University of Massachusetts, Boston).

Info Today / Plexus Publishing is the publisher of Information Today, as well as other periodicals, books, directories, and online products; and is the organizer of Computers in Libraries, Streaming Media, Enterprise Search Summit, and other prestigious conferences and exhibitions for the library, information & knowledge management communities.

With three tour organizers, all book review bloggers as well, we are proud of our connections and reputation in the online literary community.

However, Ye has not remained within the confines of his role as an artist and has become well known, in recent years, for his work as a curator, art event organizer and advocate of artist communities.

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.

Michael is a Research & Writing Fellow with Food Tank, as well as a farm hand, scholar, and community organizer based in northwest Washington State.

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.

Our local community organizers support parents as leaders in changing their high schools to better prepare all students for the future — jobs, college and life.

Our local community organizers support parents as leaders in changing their high schools to better prepare all students for the future - jobs, college and life.