Community Organizer with CAJE - (Evansville, IN)

Organization: The Direct Action and Research Training Center, Inc. (DART) is a national network of 22 justice ministry organizations that unite congregations across racial, religious, and socioeconomic lines to pursue justice. DART-related organizations seek long term, sustainable improvements at a systemic level. DART organizations engage in direct action assemblies in which thousands of people from a cross-section of faith traditions publicly hold decision-makers accountable on solutions to serious local community problems. DART organizations' recent victories include: Winning statewide legislation to rein in the payday loan industry Decreasing the high number of juvenile arrests for non-serious offenses Plugging the school-to-prison pipeline by implementing restorative justice practices in public schools Securing multi-million dollar investments in affordable housing Increasing access to primary health and dental care Education reform and expansion of pre-kindergarten programming