Detailed description of development from a very low-income leader in an immigrant community to a national-level organizer and trainer. Concerns about specific changes in society that will require changes in organizing. Personal rewards of being an organizer. Began as a leader with personal issues in her neighborhood; received training from IAF; then Gamaliel Foundation; now Training Director of Gamaliel Foundation.
Notes:
Gonzales, Mary, 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 …
