Movements surface leaders with huge networks and who don’t need to be coached by organizers; this is a lesson that traditional community organizing should learn. Best accomplishment was developing 4 younger organizers. Started with National Training and Information Center; led Northwest Neighborhood Federation; Organizing Director of Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; went on to direct Center for Community Change’s Immigration Reform campaign.
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Gonzales, Gabe, Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews, Ms.2015.016, Brown University Library
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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 …
