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Larry Bresler

Larry Bresler, is the Executive Director of the Organize! Ohio, an organization that advances grassroots community organizing and assists community organizing efforts as a strategy for progressive change in Ohio. He has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Case Western Reserve and a Law Degree from Cleveland State University. He has over 45 years’ experience in non-profit management, community organizing, and advocacy primarily focused on issues of poverty. His community organizing experience ranges from urban to rural, and neighborhood based to statewide and national campaigns. Among his previous positions have included national director of the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign, director of a statewide health justice organization in Ohio, director of a Cleveland settlement house, Manager of Neighborhood Planning and Development for the City of Cleveland, and director of a rural interfaith human service and social justice organization in western New York State. He previously served as the co-chair of the Ohio Poor People’s Campaign, one of the state chapters of the national Poor People’s Campaign. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences where he teaches and has taught a wide range of classes relating to macro practice and poverty.

Minister Savina Martin, M.S., D.H.L, is a native of Roxbury Massachusetts and a national activist. She is an Army Veteran who over the past few decades worked with homeless veterans in Boston and San Diego, CA. (1995-20014). She is on the Clergy Council of the National Union of the Homeless, a Tri-Chair of the Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Martin is a member of the Kairos Center for Religion, Rights and Social Justice, NYC. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Human Services from Springfield College and a doctorate in Humane Letters from Our Lady of the Elms College, 2019.

Kristin Colangelo LMSW, is a formally homeless mother of three. She has organized poor and homeless families for the past 20 years. She is the Organization Secretary and Membership Director and one of the regional organizers of the National Union of the Homeless. She is the coordinator of the University of the Poor’s Homeless Union History Project that facilitates and supports poor and homeless organizing nationally which includes the organization of Homeless Unions. She is on the Steering Committee of Put People First – PA, a grass-roots, base building organization that is building independent political power of the poor and dispossessed in PA through the struggle for healthcare as a human right. Kristin is also a member of the Kairos Center’s Education Committee and the New Jersey Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

The Mission of the National Union of the Homeless:
The heart and soul of the National Union of the Homeless is to commit our lives to ending homelessness and poverty and to work tirelessly for the human right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for social and economic justice for all. We dedicate ourselves to raising the awareness of our sisters and brothers, to planning a sustained struggle and to building an organization that can obtain freedom through revolutionary perseverance. We pledge to deepen our personal commitment to end all forms of exploitation, racism, sexism, and abuse. True solidarity demands that we create not only the new society, but also the new human being.

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