Mr. Wider coordinates NESRI’s media and communications efforts. Prior to coming to NESRI he was a community and movement organizer in Philadelphia for over fifteen years where he worked with community organizations fighting for affordable housing, welfare rights, tenant’s rights, jobs at living wages, universal healthcare and quality education. Mr. Wider is a co-founder and current board member of the Media Mobilizing Project in Philadelphia. He is also on the board of the Philadelphia Student Union. Mr. Wider serves as a curriculum consultant with various national anti-poverty efforts including the University of the Poor and the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary. He received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Development Sociology from Cornell University.
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