Came to organizing after careers in electrical engineering and the ministry; first paid organizing job at 42. Started at Fresno Organizing Project sponsoring committee; then Orange County PICO; sponsoring committee for the Inland Empire; PACT in San Jose; then Peninsula Interfaith Action (all PICO affiliates).
Notes:
Mann, David, 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/)
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 …