Grassroots Organizing in the Black Feminist Tradition

Justice & Community for PT Barnum Residents

PT Partners (PTP), a grassroots, resident-led, community organizing non-profit, aims to rebuild community in Bridgeport public housing (these types of units, as important units of low-income housing in Bridgeport, are scarce); to develop partnerships with community leaders and organizations; and to attract the funding and resources necessary to enable public housing residents to proactively engage in making their neighborhood a healthy and safe place to live. Part of creating an environment where residents thrive is doing away with the systemic oppression of harmful structures and institutions such as housing and education. Historically, these structures and institutions aim to dismantle existing community and sow division among residents of this low-income public housing development. PT Partners’ vision is to recreate a PT Barnum community who works together where resident leaders are empowered to actively drive change to break down systemic and institutional oppression in their lives, their neighborhood, and the greater Bridgeport community.

Resident Leaders (Community Organizing)

• Lucy M.
• Liz M.
• Nilsa H.
• Di-Zett H.
• Shaurice B.
• *Isis W. (Our sister Isis will remain listed here & we remember her with fondness)
• Dione D.
• Tamika A.
• Maribel B.
• Eucadio C.
• Zenida G.
• Brenda M.
• Lillian C.
• Wendy R.
• Mercedes V.
• Daphne C.
• Deseree G.
• April W.

Building Captains (Leaders at PT Barnum Apartments)

• Yessica P.
• April W.
• Jeanny C.
• *Isis W.
• Liz M.
• Lucy M.
• Zenida G.
• Laura L.

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