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Welcome to the 2019-2020 Center for Community Leadership Cohort
By: Aixin Li
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A New Group of Apprentices & Academy Participants Are Building Community Power
The Center for Community Leadership (CCL) at ANHD strengthens neighborhood-based organizing in New York City by providing deep, multi-layered educational training and support to community organizers. CCL offers two programs to support neighborhood-based organizing – the Organizing Apprenticeship, a 10-month paid apprenticeship in partnership with Public Allies New York that places people new to the organizing field with grassroots community-based organizations, and the Organizing Academy, a two-part educational and support program that provides introductory and advanced courses for organizers already working in the field.
Through the Center for Community Leadership, participants deepen their understanding of social conditions and oppression as context for organizing; explore different models of organizing historically and today; gain an understanding of how to engage community in improving their own conditions; and develop skills for leading successful campaigns that win concrete changes for people and communities.
This year, the Organizing Apprenticeship welcomes 12 Apprentices who are new organizers in their respective fields. The Apprentices will receive instructional learning from ANHD and Public Allies on Fridays, practice the tools and skills in organizing, and learn how to implement them at their host organizations for four days per week.
The 2019-2020 CCL Apprentices and Their Host Sites:
Andrea Duranti Martinez, Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA)
Daphne Chang, NYC Anti-Violence Project
Deborah Scott, Cooper Square Committee
Densia Wray, Neighbors Together
Elise Levy, Housing Conservation Coordinators, Inc.
Fi Whalen, Met Council on Housing
Jahed Meah, Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
Juan Colon*, Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB)
Kimberly Morales, Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Mary Lucy Castano, Make the Road NY
Monique Ashley Roberts, Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB)
Shadman Saquib, Chhaya CDC
*Second-year apprentice
The Organizing Academy welcomes 13 participants in the Intro Course and 13 participants in the Advanced Course. The Intro Course gives an overview of community change and organizing while the Advanced Course provides experienced organizers the space to deepen their analysis and practice of community organizing and help them explore institutional and individual growth. Our participants come from an array of experiences in organizing in the fields of community development, health, education, housing, immigrant rights, public benefit advocacy, worker rights, and safety.
Intro Course Participants:
Álvaro Franco, Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
Alyssa Figueroa, Right to Counsel NYC Coalition
Andrew Melendez, Hope Community, Inc.
Arli Cornejal, NYC Kids RISE
Balanda Joachim, Carroll Gardens Association
Daniela Contreras, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Julia Colon, North West Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
Kiana Davis, Urban Justice Center
Mia Soto, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
Roshni Ahmed, Women for Afghan Women
Temur Nanikashvili, Bridge Street Development Corp
Victor G. Davila, The Point CDC
Yvonne Viruet, Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
Advanced Course Participants:
Alejandro Coriat, Goddard Riverside Community Center
Akinde Kodjo-Sanogo, African Communities Together
Analisa Frietas, Justfix.nyc
Ben Fuller Googins, Carroll Gardens Association
Cata Roma, 350.org
Kate Zen, Red Canary Song
Kazi Fouzia, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)
Malika Conner, The Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development (ANHD)
Nayim Islam, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)
Nova Lucero, Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC)
Stephanie Burgos-Veras, Riders Alliance
Ronald Harrison, Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC)
Zahara Zahav, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
We are so excited for this year’s participants and look forward to the work they’ll be doing to improve the lives of all New Yorkers.
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