Sentences with phrase «working as a community organizer»

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

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.

Obama re-told his conversion story of how he worked as a community organizer with church members.

Debby Irving brings to racial justice the perspective of working as a community organizer and classroom teacher for 25 years without understanding racism as a systemic issue or her own whiteness as an obstacle to grappling with it.

«Maurice has spent twenty years working as a community organizer, electoral operative and social movement strategist.

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

So, Michelle had a decent measure of the man by the time they headed to the South Side rec center where Barack had once worked as a community organizer.

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 my work as a community organizer, and my years of work as a «community activist,» I have been in and out of many.

Larry Ferlazzo began teaching in 2003 after working as a community organizer for nearly twenty years.

Larry Ferlazzo has been a high school teacher since 2003 after spending nineteen years working as a community organizer.

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

Prior to joining NoVo, she taught 9th grade special education and worked as a community organizer with the African American Policy Forum and Girls Justice League.

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.

Prior to moving to New York City, Dennis worked as a community organizer and a curatorial assistant at The Menil Collection in Houston.

Having worked as a community organizer naturally draws me into public space and discourse, to bring people together around a concept, an issue or a dream.

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.

Those seeking to work as Community Organizers should be able to display a degree in social services or community development in their resumes.

Not exact matches

A native of New York City, he returned there to work at two literary agencies as a manuscript reader, and then worked for a year and a half as a VISTA Volunteer community organizer with the Gray Panthers.

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

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.

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.

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.

Going back to his hometown for this historic moment was symbolic to Obama because the city is where he worked as a young community organizer and where eight years ago he declared victory to become the country's first black president.

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.

Alcantara (far left) has worked recently as a Political and Community Organizer for the New York State Nurses» Association.

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.

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.

Long - time North Country Working Families Party organizer Tom Wood said Wilson stands out as a «genuine North Country voice, advocating for the policies that will truly move the needle for her neighbors and reinvigorate our upstate community.»

«His actions today are consistent with his life - long work as a civil rights leader and community organizer, including his efforts to steer passage of the Maryland Dream Act,» Jealous spokesman Kevin Harris said.

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.

Martha Ayon, who previously worked as a Community Coordinator for the New York City Comptroller's Office and as the Queens Organizer for Bill Thompson's mayoral campaign, will serve as Vallone's campaign manager.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mary began her career as an organizer for Catholic Charities in 2003, where she worked under the direction of PACT (People Acting in Community Together), a PICO national network affiliate.

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.

Over the past fifteen years, Amber has worked as a teacher, researcher, advocate, and community organizer in the education sector.

As an advisor to the advocacy and organizing team at Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE), Mark Fraley works with organizers around the country to increase their involvement as advocates for education in communitieAs an advisor to the advocacy and organizing team at Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE), Mark Fraley works with organizers around the country to increase their involvement as advocates for education in communitieas advocates for education in communities.

He has also worked as a youth organizer for Youth United for Community Action's (YUCA) educational equity campaigns and worked as a volunteer teacher in Mexico City and Cuernavaca, Mexico.