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SALLY JO SNYDER

COMMUNITY ORGANIZER
Pittsburgh,PA

Summary

For over thirty years I have been a community organizer involved in community building, bearing and becoming.

I have created, organized and lead self-advocates in successful campaigns in inclusion, racial justice, educational justice and health care justice.

With a degree in public education, I have taught the basics of community organizing and created curriculum for self-advocates and with those too often most easily labeled and left behind.

I am an established writer and talented public speaker.

Overview

5
5
years of post-secondary education
18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Advocacy and Consumer Engagement

Consumer Health Coalition
Pittsburgh, PA
03.2007 - 08.2020
  • Began and lead the Advocacy efforts of the agency into a recognized best practice for self-advocates involving over 35000 persons annually. Built disability self-advocate chapters in Allegheny, Washington and Westmoreland Counties
  • Provided testimony on Patient-Centered healthcare and advocacy for the Aging Committee of the United States Senate
  • Lead intersectional advocacy efforts for including LGBT in the Pennsylvania State Constitutiion
  • Directed the regional advocacy efforts for Medicaid Expansion, Paratransit and Public transportation funding and Activated Patient Campaigns.
  • Designed self-advocacy curriculum and trained over 35 self-advocates in legislative visits, writing and having published letters-to-the-editor, base-building, creative advocacy projects and public speaking.
  • Frequent speaker and organizer of local and state rallies
  • Created and oversaw the Human Library Project for Persons with Behavioral Health

National Coordinator Children's Sabbath Program

Children's Defense Fund
Washington, DC
07.2005 - 02.2007
  • Increased faith-based institutions national participation and involvement by 60%
  • Co-writer for the Children's Sabbath Manual
  • Keynote speaker and workshop leader for pubic education reform for events in Alabama, California, Colorado, North Carolina and South Carolina
  • Workshop leader for the national Sojourners conference and Proctor Institue

Regional Coordinator

Good Schools Pennsylvania
Erie, PA
02.2002 - 06.2005
  • Organized several hundred local community advocates and six campus chapters around public education reform resulting in passage of several state educational policies
  • Organized thousands of United Methodists statewide
  • Wrote and secured Episcopal support of United Methodist Church advocacy involvement in public education reform
  • Regular guest who highlighted children’s advocacy and public education issues on a local radio show with 30, 000 listeners

Education

Bachelor of Arts - English And Secondary Education

Point Park University
Pittsburgh, PA
08.1983 - 05.1987

Master of Arts - Ordained Ministry

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Pittsburgh, PA
09.1989 - 05.1991

Skills

Community Organizer with over thirty years experience

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Timeline

Director of Advocacy and Consumer Engagement

Consumer Health Coalition
03.2007 - 08.2020

National Coordinator Children's Sabbath Program

Children's Defense Fund
07.2005 - 02.2007

Regional Coordinator

Good Schools Pennsylvania
02.2002 - 06.2005

Master of Arts - Ordained Ministry

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
09.1989 - 05.1991

Bachelor of Arts - English And Secondary Education

Point Park University
08.1983 - 05.1987
SALLY JO SNYDERCOMMUNITY ORGANIZER