Gary Delgado is the former Executive Director and founder of the Applied Research Center, and is a nationally recognized researcher, lecturer and activist on issues of race and social justice. Gary’s analytical work includes over 30 articles and studies on social change practice including his book, Organizing the Movement: The Roots & Growth of Acorn (Temple University Press,1986). His monograph, Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing in the 1990s, created debate throughout the community organizing world. He is a board member of the Northwest Federation of Community Organizations, an advisory board member of the Institute on Race and Poverty and an honorary director of the Social Justice Fund in Seattle. Gary was one of the initial organizers of ACORN, a lead organizer with the National Welfare Rights Organization, and cofounder and director of the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO). In 1988, he received the prestigious Bannerman Fellowship for activists of color in its first year. He was recognized as a Hellraiser by Mother Jones magazine in 1996, and was profiled as a one of 61 Visionaries by Utne Reader. He received his B.A. from SUNY Old Westbury in 1972, a Masters in Urban Affairs from CUNY Queens College in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 1983.
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