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Finalist
Mark Winston-Griffith
Redefining and revoicing New York City’s public narratives
- Year
- 2022
- Organization
- Brooklyn Deep
- Sector
- Creativity & Culture
- Borough
- Brooklyn
Mark is a serial community-builder in Central Brooklyn. He’s been organizing Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights residents since the ’80s, built a community credit union for low-income residents in the ’90s, and ran for City Council in 2009. In 2011, Mark co-founded the Brooklyn Movement Center, a Black-led community organizing group where he, until recently, served as E.D. He co-produced the award-winning documentary podcast, School Colors, and is now re-imagining citizen story-telling through the journalism platform, Brooklyn Deep.