Juanita Irizarry named CCDA Institute Director
[from the Christian Community Development Association site, CCDA.org]Juanita Irizarry
"I first met CCDA and Noel Castellanos in the early 1990s. A few years out of college, I was coordinating “urban plunge” experiences for Christian college students exploring urban and cross-cultural ministry through the Christian Center for Urban Studies of the Olive Branch Mission. A pastor in Chicago’s La Villita neighborhood, Noel periodically hosted our student groups who were exploring the Mexican community. I also recently had encountered the world of affordable housing and economic development and had run across the writings of John Perkins, Ray Bakke, Bob Lupton, Ron Sider, and others. I had my big “aha” moment, as I call it, as these authors provided me words to articulate the stirrings in my soul. And my continued exploration into Christian community development helped me find the professional field of urban planning and policy.
The daughter of a Nuyorican father and a white woman who thinks she’s Puerto Rican, I was raised in the..." [continued at CCDA.org]
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