Joan Minieri, M.S. is the co-author of Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community (Jossey-Bass), winner of a 2008 Nautilus Book Award.  She currently teaches Introduction to Community Organizing at the Columbia University School of Social Work.

Ms. Minieri was the Interim Executive Director of the Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing through mid-2008.  She received a Leadership for a Changing World award from the Ford Foundation for her work co-founding Community Voices Heard, a member-led organization of primarily women on welfare.  She was founding co-director of the New York City Organizing Support Center, for which she received a Union Square Award from the Fund for the City of New York.  She was the communications director for the National Religious Partnership for the Environment and managed the Campaign for Human Development in New York City.  With the Research Center for Leadership in Action at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, Ms. Minieri has co-authored several reports on community-based leadership, including From Constituents to Stakeholders:  Community-Based Approach es to Building Organizational Ownership and Providing Opportunities to Lead; Transforming Lives, Changing Communities:  How Social Justice Organizations Build and Use Power. 

Ms. Minieri has taught community organizing at NYU/Wagner and regularly supports and trains grassroots leaders and staff members to develop their organizing skills.  She is graduate of the Columbia University School of Social Work and Muhlenberg College. 

Last updated July 01, 2009.