Tag: Community Organizing

Born and raised in Queens, Yazan’s passion for public spaces and placemaking was cultivated by the community he grew up in.

Abigail Ellman is an urban planner and action researcher with experience in affordable housing, equitable economic development, sustainable infrastructure, health equity, and community organizing.

Jim Burke is a longtime community resident of Jackson Heights, a well-known LGBTQ activist, safe streets advocate, Volunteer Chair of TA Queens, and co-founder of 34th Avenue Open Streets...

Mohamed Attia is the Managing Director of the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center. Attia migrated to the US from Alexandria, Egypt, in 2008 working as a...

Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez is the Deputy Director at the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center, where she has worked to pass city legislation to reform the street vendor...

The Street Vendor Project (SVP) is a membership-based organization of over 2,900 members who champion the rights of street vendors as small businesses to earn a living and contribute...

JBOLC's mission is to strive for inquiry and project-based solutions at the juncture of food, environmental and social justice.

Karen Dawn Blondel is a trusted and respected local community leader and long-time resident of public housing in Red Hook, Brooklyn. She has been widely recognized and honored at...

Yin Kong 邝海音 is a community-based designer and curator living and working in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Think!Chinatown is the culmination of her work in urban design, museum, culinary & cultural...

Originally from Hanoi (Vietnam), Ari-Duong Nguyen (they/she) is a recent graduate with an MA in Media Studies from The New School. They write criticism of cinema and time-based media,...

Ryan is an artist and organizer with three decades of experience working in the Lower East Side on community art projects and public space activations. She is a co-founder...

Founded in 1978, Loisaida, Inc. is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary community development organization located in the Lower East Side area of Lower Manhattan. We stand firm on our original...

Born and raised in the Lower East Side, Promise has always had a passion for advocating and supporting underrepresented communities. She obtained her Bachelors in Social Work and Media...

Alejandro Epifanio is an accomplished cultural worker and community organizer with over a decade of experience serving underserved communities in New York City. Alejandro has served as the Executive...

Imani Keith Henry is a long-time anti-police brutality, anti-war, anti-death penalty and Harm Reduction activist in the US. In 2013, Imani Henry founded Equality for Flatbush (E4F) a Black...

Equality for Flatbush (E4F) is a Black Lives Matter organization that has fought gentrification, displacement and police violence in Brooklyn, NY since 2013. They have only two goals: to...

Thomas Yu is the Executive Director of Asian Americans For Equality (AAFE) a 50-year old NYC-based community development organization serving the 1.3 million New Yorkers of Asian descent, and...

Bridge Tha Gap is a community outreach program with the mission to fill the gaps in our community. We aim to supply support to families and individuals that have...

Tracey L. Pinkard is Vice President of the Gowanus Houses Resident Association and founder of the Gowanus Houses Arts Collective. GHAC reaches neighborhood teens through the arts and connects them...

The Albany Host Lions Club and the Troy Lions Club were both founded in 1925. The two clubs joined forces in July, 2006 to become the Albany & Troy...

The Jackson Heights Beautification Group (JHBG) is a grassroots group of people who live or work in the community of Jackson Heights, Queens. We are a non-profit civic, environmental and...

Andreas is a computer scientist, community activist, and former President of the Gowanus Houses Resident Association.

Jennifer Bolstad is a landscape architect, an educator and a community organizer for social and environmental justice. Together with Walter Meyer, she is co-founder of Local Office Landscape and...

Marta Viciedo is a Miami-based urbanist and social impact entrepreneur. Marta co-founded Urban Impact Lab, a civic innovation and placemaking firm in Miami that introduces and applies innovation-based solutions...

The Cooper Square Committee works with Lower East Side residents to contribute to the preservation and development of affordable, environmentally healthy housing and cultural/community spaces so that the community...

A project to upcycle vacant lots, transforming them into vibrant farmland.

Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, Inc. is a 40-year-old community development organization and mutual housing association.

The mission of University Neighborhood Housing Program (UNHP) is to create, preserve, and improve affordable housing and bring needed resources to the Northwest Bronx.

Founded in 1974, the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) unites diverse peoples and institutions to fight for racial and economic justice.

Asian Americans for Equality is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization based in New York City. Founded in 1974 in Manhattan’s Chinatown to advocate for equal rights, AAFE has transformed...

Think!Chinatown was started by Chinatown neighbors that got to know each other through community events. Now, we’ve grown to a network of dedicated volunteers from a broad spectrum of professional...

FABnyc is a team of  artists and organizers working to preserve, sustain, and grow the cultural vibrancy of the Lower East Side neighborhood. FABnyc was founded in 2001 by...

Founded in 1990 and based in Jackson Heights, Queens, the 82nd Street Partnership is an award-winning neighborhood development organization.

A project to upcycle vacant lots, transforming them into vibrant farmland.