.:. About David
David S. Haiman is a principal 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 groups including the D.C. Employment Justice Center (DCEJC), the Youth Education Alliance (YEA), Tenants and Workers United (TWU), Community Bridges (Montgomery Cty), and Impact Silver Spring, as well as national groups including 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 trainer and facilitator for groups ranging from NeighborWorks America to the Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (SALSA). 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 nine years at Organizing Neighborhood Equity (ONEDC; formerly Manna CDC), starting as staff organizer and ending as associate director and director of community organizing. In this capacity, he worked with community residents and the ONEDC 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 and vision, 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 ONEDC, David received his Master's Degree 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 an amateur folk guitar player, amateur poker player, and avid comic book reader in his spare time.
david@movementmatters.net
.:. About Marta
Marta Vizueta Bohorquez is a popular educator and community organizer in Washington, D.C., and is a principal and co-founder of Movement Matters. She brings extensive experience in working with grassroots community groups and in supporting the development of social justice organizations with strong core values and administrative capacities.
Marta believes in movement building and in the necessity to develop networks and supports for other progressive organizers and grassroots community leaders in the city. To this end, she envisioned, created and oversaw the Kressley Initiative, the first program of its kind in Washington, D.C., 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, D.C., 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 D.C. public education arena, Marta’s successful parent engagement/leadership development and initial organizing work earned DCVOICE 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 D.C. 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 and programmatic systems to support sustainable community organizing. In her spare time she is also a dancer and doula.
marta@movementmatters.net
.:. Training Team
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