Christine Neumann-Ortiz is the founding executive director of Voces de la Frontera in Wisconsin, and a state and national leader in the immigrant rights movement. Through her leadership, Voces has grown from a small, grassroots worker center to a state and national leader in the immigrant rights movement. Voces is the largest Latino membership based organization in Wisconsin. Since 2006,...
Kelissa Hieber is a student on a mission. The senior at Miami University in Ohio has an internship she loves at We Are Ohio. The Integrative Studies major is focusing on a career where she can blend her love of field organizing with her passion for social justice issues such as race, gender and class. Hieber listened to President Obama lay out his jobs plan to the nation last week, and...
Yesterday the 2010 poverty numbers were released by the US Census Bureau. They confirm what so many of us already know to be true – that the Great Recession is devastating families and communities across the country, and poverty and hardship is on the rise. This is the reason that the Center for Community Change is organizing around the country for the creation of good jobs...
As we get closer to our 2011 Change Champion Awards on September 22, we'd like you to meet another of our distinduished Champions. Quinn Delaney is the the founder and president of the Akonadi Foundation whose mission is to support the development of powerful social change movements to eliminate structural racism and create a racially just society. Akonadi Foundation was founded in 1999...
