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SOCIAL
CAPITAL "ROLE MODELS" [Community
Highlights] [Success Stories] [Press
Release] [Survey Highlights (PDF)] Oral historian Dr. David A. Anderson/Sankofa has used his varied roles as a professor, activist, actor and storyteller to translate and uplift African American history and experience for upstate New Yorkers. Now chairman of the Rochester-Monroe County Freedom Trail Commission, he is a former deputy executive director of the Urban League, City School District administrator of parent and adult education programs, and SUNY Brockport faculty member. Environmentalist Ann
N. Baker, a 40-year Rochester resident and committed activist on behalf
of this region's public parks, street trees, and open space, reflects
that "doing good is very hard." As a day care director, she
worked to bring low-income and well-to-do children together; as a social
worker, she oversaw troubled families; and as an environmentalist, she
protects our air, land and water as a board member of groups like the
Nature Conservancy (Central and Western New York Chapter) and Genesee
Land Trust. Medical technician Delaine Cook-Green has been engaged in every community she's lived in since her first of six children was born 42 years ago. Born in South Carolina and raised in New York City, her grassroots community organizing has ranged from welfare protests in the 1960s to co-chairing the city's Sector 10 board as well as Partners for Food, which brought a major grocery chain to Northeast Rochester. She is the newly appointed executive director of CONEA (Coalition of Northeast Associations). Mayoral advisor Kenneth Dean left the South in 1961 for Colgate Rochester Divinity School. In his long career as a Baptist churchman he has become a nationally consulted expert in hunger and genocide studies, served in Democratic politics in the South, organized Jewish-Christian dialogues, and helped start the South's first black-owned commercial TV station. He now assists Rochester Mayor William A. Johnson, Jr. Interfaith activist Reverend Richard Gilbert has served as minister of First Unitarian Church of Rochester since 1970. His background in social ministry includes work on school and housing desegregation, nuclear disarmament, and peace. A Bristol native educated at St. Lawrence University and the University of Chicago, Dick helps promote social and economic justice as a member of several grantmaking panels.
Religious leader Reverend Errol Hunt of Memorial AME Zion Church has followed the life and kindled the memory of Frederick Douglass for many years. Here in Rochester, Rev. Hunt serves as pastor of the church where Douglass preached; organizer of the Frederick Douglass Resource Center; and leader of the Frederick Douglass Community Development Corporation, an affordable housing developer. Banker Barbara J. Jones (Chair) helps build financial stability through community economic development and outreach to small businesses. She worked to improve race relations at Hunter College and continues to address needs of low- and moderate-income women through organizations like Wilson Commencement Park. An avid reader, Barbara shares her enthusiasm with others as a member of the Ebony Voices Book Club. Sister of St. Joseph Beth LeValley, a Gasport native, works to bridge economic divides in greater Rochester. Along with neighborhood residents and several community organizations, she helped create and organized support for Partners for Food, Inc., the Progre$$ive Neighborhood Federal Credit Union and the Community Microenterprise Center, Inc. to broaden access to food, financial services and economic opportunity. Beth is president of the Greater Rochester Community of Churches. Bausch and Lomb executive Clayton H. Osborne has been a leader in engaging business in diversity and work/life issues. A founder of the Rochester Diversity Council, Clay has helped build the strategic advantages of inclusiveness into human resource planning throughout the business community. He is active in politics and on charitable boards. Neighborhood activist Douglas Rice spearheaded the effort to bring pedestrian-friendly planning and public art to University Avenue and the Neighborhood of the Arts. As head of the Atlantic/University Neighborhood Association and convenor/founding member of CURB, Citizens for University Avenue ReBuild, Doug coordinated citizen involvement in these plans. He is also working on "YardArt," sponsored by South East Arts Development, to promote art displayed on private properties. Businessman Thomas P. Riley has lived in the City of Rochester all his life and believes in "giving back." During an active career in Rochester's corporate life, he was also a two-time chair of the City's planning commission and active board leader in charitable organizations. Throughout these careers, Tom has built bridges between citizens, business and government and recently provided leadership in the creation of the Common Good Planning Center and in the Princeton Club's community service activities. Principal of an organization development firm, Margaret Sánchez uses her background in business, higher education and community organizations to connect people of diverse backgrounds. A daughter of migrant workers and former farmworker activist, she has led many community boards, committees and projects since arriving in Rochester. Her involvement in the community began with participation in United Way's Hispanic Leadership Development Program. She recently completed a two-year term as board chair for the American Red Cross in Rochester. Xerox retiree Richard Schwartz chairs the board of Rochester Area Community Foundation in his tenth year of Board service. A former president of the Congregation at the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, he has participated in a wide range of volunteer, school and church-related activities. An optical engineer, Dick graduated from the University of Rochester. Religious leader Dr. Muhammad Shafiq is Imam and Executive Director of the Islamic Center of Rochester. A published author, teacher, and scholar, he holds a Ph.D. in comparative religion from Temple University. He was a co-founder of the Committee on Christian-Muslim Relations within the Greater Rochester Community of Churches, working with Rev. Gordon Webster and the Greater Rochester Council of Masajid (mosques). University of Rochester junior Kartik Srinivas takes community involvement seriously. As House Manager for the Community Learning Center, he oversees a residence that cultivates community involvement and diversity both within and outside the University. He volunteers with Habitat for Humanity and two children's organizations, and each year performs service work in another community during an "alternative spring break." Community volunteer Janet Welch is currently chairing a capital campaign to renovate St. Joseph's Villa, where she has served both on the staff and board. The former chair of Rochester Area Community Foundation is also a long-time political party activist. She is a founding member of the Community Foundation's 21st Century Club, which underwrote Greater Rochester's participation in the Social Capital Survey. Military veteran and
retired TV technician John Wolf has served his local government
in Pembroke, New York for 27 years as a planning board member, town board
member, and for ten years as town supervisor. Now retired, he is vice
chair of the local historical association and co-chair of its Brick House
Corners Fair; vice chair of Genesee County's Senior Foundation; a hospice
volunteer; a planning team member for the Community Foundation's Marshall
Fund for the Aging; and a voting machine technician.
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