Volunteer Organizer Program

At the heart of CASE's efforts to build a movement for a new, sustainable, and just economy for Central Phoenix is our volunteer organizer program.  Volunteer organizers are local leaders familiar with CASE's campaigns who attend weekly team meetings, periodic classroom training sessions, go on house visits, and help to lead community meetings.  In doing so, they play a key role in developing strategy, sharing that strategy with the larger community, and mobilizing community support for our organizing campaigns.

This spring, CASE has three volunteer organizers:

Hilaria Rodriguez.  Born in Mexicali, Mexico, Hilaria is a long-time Phoenix resident, President of the Sky Harbor Neighborhood Association, and a former member of the Wilson Elementary School District Governing Board.  Having been successful in organizing her neighbors around such safety improvements as additional street lights and speed bumps, Hilaria has recently become frustrated with the response of the City of Phoenix to her neighborhood concerns and has joined CASE to help bring other nieghborhood association and block watch leaders into her efforts to make her voice heard at City Hall.

Jimmie Munoz.  An ASU graduate, Jimmie is President of the Governing Board of the Roosevelt Elementary School District.  Having worked hard to improve the quality of education at the Roosevelt Schools, Jimmie is working to include more community leaders in the process of building a better general learning environment--both inside and outside of the schools--for the Roosevelt District's young people.

Lorenzo Salgado.  Born and raised in South Phoenix, Lorenzo is a Non-Profit Leadership and Management student at ASU's new Downtown Phoenix Campus.  Lorenzo joined CASE's VO program in order to build, from the beginning, a strong working partnership between the students of the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus and the neighborhood in which that campus sits.