ALBUQUERQUE -- Teresa Brito-Asenap was New Mexico’s surprise motivational speaker in the final minutes leading up to Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last Thursday night.But lost in much of the coverage of the speech by the newly minted Democratic presidential nominee -- before a crowd of about 84,000 in person and some 38 million more watching on TV -- was a telling bit of campaign strategy.The historic event was also a historic organizing opportunity. That wasn’t lost on Brito-Asenap, a long-time educator and South Valley native who’s currently the director of the Albuquerque Public Schools Center for Extended Learning. That’s because she also happened to serve as a leader with Albuquerque Interfaith, perhaps New Mexico’s most effective community organizing outfit, for over a dozen years.“When I got involved with the campaign several weeks ago, I started doing the things I know best: organizing people and listening to their stories,” Brito-Asenap told the Independent in an interview on her way back to Albuquerque. In her two minute, fifteen second speech, she emphasized her own story as a way to highlight two of Obama’s education initiatives – and to organize support for them.Read the full article.
ALBUQUERQUE -- Teresa Brito-Asenap was New Mexico’s surprise motivational speaker in the final minutes leading up to Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last Thursday night.
But lost in much of the coverage of the speech by the newly minted Democratic presidential nominee -- before a crowd of about 84,000 in person and some 38 million more watching on TV -- was a telling bit of campaign strategy.
The historic event was also a historic organizing opportunity. That wasn’t lost on Brito-Asenap, a long-time educator and South Valley native who’s currently the director of the Albuquerque Public Schools Center for Extended Learning. That’s because she also happened to serve as a leader with Albuquerque Interfaith, perhaps New Mexico’s most effective community organizing outfit, for over a dozen years.
“When I got involved with the campaign several weeks ago, I started doing the things I know best: organizing people and listening to their stories,” Brito-Asenap told the Independent in an interview on her way back to Albuquerque. In her two minute, fifteen second speech, she emphasized her own story as a way to highlight two of Obama’s education initiatives – and to organize support for them.
Read the full article.
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