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Warren Adams-Leavitt

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Work History

Start Year	End Year	Organization	Position
1985	1989	Kansas City Organization Project	Board Member
1989	2005	Kansas City Church/Community Organization	Director
1997	2000	Wyandotte Interfaith Sponsoring Council	Director

Organizer Profile

What brought you into the work?:

Growing consciousness of injustice and dysfunction in the United States.

Share 3 lessons you have learned through your work in organizing.:

A relational understanding of community and society that has become the primary lens through which I look at the world.

A much deeper, more nuanced grasp of personal and organizational power.

Stamina ‚Äì the ability to keep focused on long-term change in this country at times when the short-term realities can be very depressing.

Who has inspired you in your organizing?:

Mahatma Ghandi

Sr. Mary Jordan Langenhennig, PICO

Ron Snyder, PICO

What movements or political moments have most influenced your organizing career?:

Civil Rights Movement, Gandhi‚Äôs Satyagraha, the Nicaraguan Sandinista revolution

Share an accomplishment or list accomplishments from your career in organizing.:

Fundamentally changing the way Kansas City handles housing reinvestment.

What are the barriers to successful community organizing in this country? How can we overcome these barriers?:

1) Stable funding - We need to find better ways to fund organizing over the long-term. We're overly dependent on the whims of foundation funding.
2) Depth with scale - We need to be able to reach to higher levels of government and debate, while still retaining depth in local communities. Organizations tend to sacrifice depth for scale or else never move to scale in order to hold onto depth.

Are you still in organizing? If not, in what other fields have you worked? What are you doing now?:

No. I'm running a Community Development Corporation - building houses, running a senior program

Genealogy

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Warren Adams-Leavitt's Trainers

Who developed and/or trained you as an organizer?

Person	Organization
Medellin, Paul	Kansas City Organization Project
Reed, Scott	PICO

Warren Adams-Leavitt's Coaches

Who has mentored, coached, or consulted with you in your organizing career?

Person	Organization
Collazo, Denise	PICO
Reed, Scott	PICO
snyder, ron	PICO

Warren Adams-Leavitt's Peers

Which of your peers influenced your development as an organizer?

Warren Adams-Leavitt's Trainees

Whom have you developed or trained as an organizer? (Please list people who have stayed in the field or a related field for at least three years.)

Person	Organization
Graves, Denise	Kansas City Church/Community Organization
Schulte, Eva	Kansas City Church/Community Organization (CCO)
Young, Jerry	Kansas City Church/Community Organization

Warren Adams-Leavitt's Coachees

Who did you mentor, coach, or consult with you in your organizing career? (Please list people who have stayed in the field or a related field for at least 3 years.)