Lana Martinez (MDiv’16): Leveraging faith & community organizing beyond the pulpit
…statewide organization advocating for immigrants and working families. Additionally, she partners with Church World Service, doing community organizing and political education. As a community organizer-turned-lobbyist, Martinez has to work quickly to disseminate information as “quite often bills are not put on committee dockets until the night before.” She notes that “the way the Virginia legislature works makes it extremely difficult…
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