In collaboration with the South Marshall Street Interfaith Coalition and Immanuel Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, CAC has hired Tieasha Gayle as a Community Organizer with an initial focus on South Marshall Street.
Located in the Asylum Hill neighborhood, South Marshall Street is home to an eclectic group of people that includes hundreds of Burmese and Nepali refugees, homeless families and children living in the Marshall House shelter, tenants of the low-income apartment buildings, and Habitat for Humanity homeowners. Since 2011, the South Marshall Street Interfaith Coalition, comprised of non-profit, business and faith community leaders, has worked together to make change on the street.
Tieasha, who owns a home on South Marshall Street, will begin building relationships with residents of South Marshall to assess what they identify as their priorities and then help organize neighborhood leaders around building collective power to win issues that matters to them.
Tieasha has a passion for building relationships and has already immersed herself into the world of organizing by working with tenant leaders in the Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments No More Slumlords campaign. You can learn more about Tieasha by visiting: www.cljct.org/about-us/our-staff/
