CNN honors local resident’s work with nonprofit supported by Community Programs Accelerator
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2016
A community organizer helping address issues such as gang violence and juvenile justice at age 13, Sheldon Smith was not the typical kid in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood in the 1990s. Yet, the situation that led him to community organizing was very typical: He had an absent father.
“My father was in and out, and I was hurting,”…
