Archila, Ana Maria

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Year:: 2009
Contributor:: Archila, Ana Maria (interviewee); Elmer, Don (interviewer)
Subject:: Civil rights; Columbian; Community organization; Education; Health care; Hispanic Americans; Housing; Identity affiliation; Immigrants -- Civil rights; Individual membership organization; LGBTQ rights; Latinx; Poverty; Urban organization; Women; Young adults
Local ID:: bdr:420351; bdr420351
Extent:: 1 DVD; 0:47:52

Abstract:: The challenge of being successful from local to national levels. Huge effect of 9/11 on immigrant communities. Ana Maria immigrated from Colombia at the age of 17; she worked in a community center in Staten Island, became acquainted with Make the Road By Walking, became its Executive Director, and guided its expansion to Make The Road New York. She later became Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy.
Notes:: Archila, Ana Maria, Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews, Ms.2015.016, Brown University Library; Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

"Archila, Ana Maria" (2009). Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:420351/

Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews

The Center for Community Change created the Community Organizer Genealogy Project in order "to document the development of community organizing, the development of individual organizers and the connections among organizers, organizations and networks." The project was led by Don Elmer …
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