Sushma Sheth

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  Sushma Sheth
  
  Sushma Sheth is a long time community organizer and racial justice activist.A native of Miami, born to immigrant parents from the state of Gujrat, she grew up surrounded by the spices of her family's grocery store.During college at Brown University, Sheth led a number of South Asian social justice initiatives on campus as well as was a chaired Visions Worldwide, an student-run organization organizing students around AIDS in the U.S. and India.After graduating, Sheth moved back to Miami and started working with the Miami Workers Center (MWC) in 2001.She organized home childcare workers for fair wages, and jump started the communications arm of MWC.In her position as the Communications Director, Sheth positioned the Miami Workers Center as a national communications resource for social justice organizations and reshaped how strategic communications relates to grassroots community organizing.Her work in framing and shaping issues of race, poverty, and public accountability in the press, and developing and projecting the grassroots voices has shifted public debate in Miami and led to concrete organizing victories as well as award winning news stories.Sushma has led a number of county-wide coalitions to address affordable housing, hurricane relief, and racial inequality, including community, labor, environtal, and private partners.Sushma was awarded the New Voices Fellowship in 2002, a 2006 Miami Fellow by the Dade Community Foundation, and one of Miami's 25 Power Women of 2007.

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  We'd also like to mention a runner-up: Sushma Sheth. Based out of Miami, Sushma has worked at the Miami Workers Center, which helps working class people develop their leadership potential and take on issues such as welfare reform, affordable housing and gentrification. She also was a Ford Foundation New Voices fellow.

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  (l-r) Thao Tran, who served as a community development fund chairman in Seattle, community organizer Sushma Sheth of Miami, and architectural historian Harold Lucas of Chicago each spoke during the week of April 13 at community forums addressing St. Paul's light-rail project concerns.
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  Sushma Sheth, a community organizer from Miami, told the audience April 16 at Lao Family Center that the light-rail project is "only as effective as community residents are involved in the process.

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  Sushma Sheth, a longtime community organizer and racial justice activist, was keynote speaker for "Stay in Place and Thrive: Community Forum on Resisting Gentrification" at the Lao Family Community Center in Saint Paul on April 16. A native of Miami, born to immigrant parents from India, Sheth was awarded the New Voices Fellowship by the Academy for Educational Development in 2002, a Miami Fellowship by the Dade Community Foundation in 2006, and was named one of Miami's 25 Power Women in 2006. This year, Sushma Sheth was named a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow.

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  As many as half of black households in the neighborhood were headed by a grandparent, according to Sushma Sheth, director of programs at the Miami Workers Center, a leftist community organization.Sheth cited anecdotal evidence.
  
  In many cases, mothers and children moved in with a grandparent because they were effectively homeless, she said.
  
  "There is more than one responsibility.There is the responsibility of the individual and of the society to the individual," Sheth said.

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  As many as half of black households in the neighborhood were headed by a grandparent, according to Sushma Sheth, director of programs at the Miami Workers Center, a leftist community organization.Sheth cited anecdotal evidence.
  
  In many cases, mothers and children moved in with a grandparent because they were effectively homeless, she said.
  
  "There is more than one responsibility.There is the responsibility of the individual and of the society to the individual," Sheth said.

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  Sushma Sheth, Miami Workers Center (Miami)

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  Sushma Sheth Miami Workers Center

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  Sushma Sheth Campaign Director 305-759-8717 ext 1004

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  Sushma Sheth, a longtime community organizer and racial justice activist, was keynote speaker for "Stay in Place and Thrive: Community Forum on Resisting Gentrification" at the Lao Family Community Center in Saint Paul on April 16. A native of Miami, born to immigrant parents from India, Sheth was awarded the New Voices Fellowship by the Academy for Educational Development in 2002, a Miami Fellowship by the Dade Community Foundation in 2006, and was named one of Miami's 25 Power Women in 2006. This year, Sushma Sheth was named a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow.

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