Stephen Bradberry

Stephen Bradberry is the national campaign coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Bradberry has served in low and moderate-income neighborhoods in Louisiana for more than a decade. Under his guidance, the Louisiana chapter of ACORN grew to more than 10,000 member families working in the areas of living wages, environmental justice and voting rights. At ACORN, Bradberry has worked extensively on issues of environmental and financial justice. He directed a staff of community organizers throughout Louisiana to mobilize residents to work for social change. Under his direction, the organization ran an 18-month campaign to turn the city of New Orleans’ planning process around 180 degrees -- from turning the Lower Ninth Ward into wetlands to being a pilot neighborhood for the rebuilding process. In November of 2005, Bradberry became the first American to receive the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Bradberry is currently building and working with coalitions around the issues of Gulf Coast restoration and immigration, as well as mentoring younger organizers.