David S. Haiman is a principle and co-founder of Movement Matters. David’s experience of over a decade in community organizing, fundraising, and non-profit management has helped Movement Matters to develop into an effective and dynamic capacity building organization.
Since Movement Matters’ inception in 2007, David has brought his expertise to a variety of projects, including program, organizational, and curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation for local organizations including the D.C. Employment Justice Center, the Youth Education Alliance, the Youth Action Research Group, and Impact Silver Spring, as well as national groups such as the Center for Progressive Leadership and NeighborWorks America. These projects have included Board development, deepening organizational capacity for community organizing, developing and refining leadership curricula, visioning and strategic planning for new program areas, and direct skills training of staff.
David also serves as a trainer and facilitator for groups ranging from NeighborWorks America to the Social Action and LeadershipSchool for Activists. He trains on a variety of topics related to community organizing and social justice, including: Developing Cultural Capacity, Community Organizing for Policy Change, Leadership Development, and Equitable Community Development. In addition to these training roles, David is also an adjunct faculty member at the Catholic University School of Social Work, where he teaches community organizing and provides site supervision for students doing their field study in community organizing.
Before helping to start Movement Matters, David spent over 9 years at Organizing Neighborhood Equity (ONE DC; formerly Manna CDC), starting as a staff Organizer and ending as the Associate Director and Director of Community Organizing. In this capacity, he worked with community residents and the ONE DC Organizing Team to initiate, fund, and grow new organizing projects to increase residents’ control over development in their neighborhood and to increase the community’s capacity for sustainable organizing that addresses long-term, systemic issues of poverty. Under his leadership, the organization involved hundreds of residents in efforts that created the District’s first resident-led comprehensive community benefits agreement; secured commitments for 92 units of new, very affordable rental apartments; and developed and funded, through City legislation, a $2 million training and hiring program for living wage jobs created in new development. As a Management Team member, David led and oversaw the transition of Manna CDC to the fully independent organization, ONE DC, managing all organizational development areas including fundraising, strategic planning, community-based board development, and staff development.
Prior to his work at ONE DC, David received his Master’s Degrees in Social Work and Public Policy from the University of Michigan and was a community organizer through the VISTA program in the Phoenix area in Arizona.
David is fluent in spoken and written English and proficient in spoken and written Spanish. He is a folk guitar player, amateur poker player, and avid comic book reader in his spare time.
david@movementmatters.net
Marta Vizueta Bohorquez is a popular educator and progressive community organizer in Washington, DC and is a principle and co-founder of Movement Matters. She has worked in grassroots and national organizations primarily focusing on low-income communities of color. She has overseen and partnered on projects that include public education and parent organizing, youth organizing, labor rights, health justice initiatives, anti-racism and community building, and the rights of immigrants and the working poor.
Her extensive experience also includes organizational and program development (i.e. internal administrative and communciation systems, board development, staff training, strategic planning, membership programs, etc.) for both local and national groups.
Given her long-time commitment to developing networks and supports for other progressive organizers and community leaders in the city, she created and oversaw the Kressley Initiative, the first program of its kind in Washington, DC, which directly trained and provided technical assistance to local community organizers and their respective institutions. She also created the annual Shaw Freedom School, a yearly tri-lingual event in Washington, DC, bringing community members (Latino, Asian and Black) together for a day of learning circles, capacity building and cultural sessions based on current issues affecting their communities and families.
Marta has also been key in developing popularized/culturally competent training manuals including Building By Building: A Tenant Leadership Manual, and Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching--a project that grew directly out of her work in progressive curriculum development and education organizing.
In the DC education arena, Marta’s successful parent engagement/leadership development and initial organizing work earned DC VOICE and the Tellin’ Stories Project (Teaching for Change) national recognition and continued Ford Foundation funding in the early 2000s. Under the auspices of Teaching for Change and the DCPS Department of Multicultural Education/OCR Compliance, she also developed a fully funded program to support the training of DC teachers around multicultural education and anti-racism.
Marta is fluent in both spoken and written Spanish and English, and brings expertise in the development of administrative systems to support sustainable community organizing. In her spare time she is also a professional dancer and doula.
marta@movementmatters.net
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