Mark Winston-Griffith

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.