In the beginning

Haby and I were just some seriously peeved college students. We were dismayed with poverty, with the government's response to Katrina, with the murderous war in Iraq, with the lack of educational opportunity for Blacks and Latinos, and a canyon of other injustices which plague our country. We were both part of organizations that did really meaningful work. My organization, the Gentlemen of Quality, led four mentoring programs for students in Harlem and the Bronx, we volunteered to clean parks, distributed food at homeless shelters, and wraped toys for kids. We wore ourselves thin and still had a burning desire for greater more systemic social change. Call us greedy, ambitious, or idealists, but we wanted more. We wanted to Transform America. We saw other organizations like ourselves doing really good work, making little ripples of social change. We started to think, what if all these ripples came together? Could we make waves? Could we initiate a tsunami? Could we make the type of change that movies are made about, the type of change that changes ways of thinking, the types of change that changes how people treat each other, the type of change that changes us in the process and produces a better tomorrow? From these questions sprung Transform America. A group of social justice organizations that realize their own power, and the power of like-minded, committed, unapologetic, sincere organizations. By working together we will Transform America.