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 PT Barnum Apartments, a low-income public housing development in Bridgeport; to develop partnerships with community leaders and organizations; and to attract the funding and resources necessary to enable PT Barnum Apartment 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 efforts of Park City Communities (PCC), the Bridgeport Housing Authority, 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 (Special Projects)

• Lucy M.
• Liz M.
• Shaurice B.
• Isis W.
• Dione D.
• Zaida S.
• Carmen G.
• Eucadio C.
• Zenida G.

Building Captains (Leaders at PT Barnum Apartments)

• Yessica
• April
• Blossom
• Isis
• Liz
• Lucy
• Shelly
• Zenida

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