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Henry Izumizaki has worked as a farm worker, street worker, criminal justice and urban planner, community crime prevention director, organizer and consultant. He has extensive experience in private philanthropy, serving for nine years as the Program Executive for Urban Affairs at the San Francisco Foundation. He currently serves as a trustee (and chief financial officer) for the California Consumer Protection Foundation. He has served as Assistant to the Superintendent of Oakland Public Schools; as a principal strategist in the formation of Oakland's Empowerment Zone Application; as Executive Director of Eureka Bay Area, a leadership development program designed specifically for the directors of non-profit agencies; and as Chief Strategist at the Urban Strategies Council, an Oakland based non-profit public policy organization focused on reducing persistent poverty. Mr. Izumizaki has spent thirty years in the government and nonprofit sectors in the San Francisco Bay Area, working to change the institutions and systems that serve low-income communities. Despite a long series of successes, this work led him to become increasingly frustrated, because even the successful change efforts didn't do enough to help poor people build their own capacity. Two years ago he decided to give up trying to change institutions and systems, quit his job, and devoted himself instead to finding a way to directly empower the communities themselves. This quest led him into a partnership with Judith Rosenberg of TEAMS, the Oakland-based originator of the Support Action Team model for peer support and learning. Mr. Izumizaki is now the President of TEAMS. |
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