Contributor Bio

Donna Hernandez

Donna Hernández is the Operations Associate for the Applied Research Center’s New York Communication Office. A native of Philadelphia, PA, she is well-known in her North Philadelphia community for her organizing on police issues, housing and welfare rights and work for Puerto Rican independence. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.A. in Letters Arts and Science. She began organizing at an early age with the Women’s Community Revitalization Project (WCRP) in Philadelphia. While at Penn State, she was active in student organizing and government. She worked with several groups aimed at recruiting and retaining students of color to higher education.

Prior to working at ARC, she was Executive Director of the Police-Barrio Relations Project (PBRB), a Philadelphia non-profit fighting for police accountability and providing community education programs and police cultural awareness workshops. As Executive Director, she was responsible for maintaining all of the organization’s programs and staff and for overseeing a 1996 Settlement Agreement between the City of Philadelphia and the PBRP, NAACP and ACLU. In 2001, she was on the Selection Committee of the Philadelphia Foundation’s Good Neighbor Partnership Fund.

Posted at 2:35 PM, May 02, 2007 in Contributors | Permalink