Laura Barrett
Laura Barrett is the National Campaign Director for Gamaliel and Transportation Equity Network.
She has been a community organizer for more than 20 years. Laura previously worked as a field organizer for the Center for Community Change, and has served as director of Housing Comes First, the Missouri Public Interest Research Group (MoPIRG), and the Campaign for Jobs and Housing. She was the campaign manager for a ballot initiative that resulted in the passage of the largest per capita housing trust fund in America ($5 million annually), the St. Louis Housing Trust Fund. She has helped groups to win millions in public transportation funding, and has negotiated community benefits agreements and positive workforce development policies on the state, local and federal levels. As the civic engagement director for Gamaliel, she has helped local affiliates to register 12,000 low-income and immigrant voters, and to make more than 125,000 voter contacts about non-partisan issues in the 2008 fall election.
POSTS ON ROOFLINES
- 3 Jun 13 · Transit Initiatives Boosted by Employers
- 7 May 13 · 3 Initiatives to Drive the New Secretary of Transportation
- 4 Apr 13 · 6 Reasons to Be Wary of Public-Private Partnerships
- 18 Mar 13 · What Immigration Reform Should Look Like
- 1 Mar 13 · Sick of the Sequester? Learn from Michigan Organizers
- 1 Feb 13 · Time to Seize the Moment on Immigration?
- 13 Dec 12 · Hawaii’s Train to the Future
- 28 Nov 12 · Solutions After Sandy: Rebuilding the Right Way
- 15 Nov 12 · The Hawaii Model Succeeds
- 14 Sep 12 · Community Organizing Creates Jobs
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