💫WELCOME, KWESI! As Program Director of Reparations, Kwesi will lead all aspects of DWP's reparations work, including community-building and technical assistance for the grantee partners, narrative change and campaign strategies. He is the former Senior Political Director at Color Of Change where he was in charge of harnessing the talent and energy of Color Of Change’s over 7 million members to build independent Black political power. Before Color Of Change, Kwesi worked as the Deputy Political Director at Center for Popular Democracy and as the Training Director for New Organizing Institute, where he developed the Black Roots New Media Boot Camp, a week-long digital strategy training for people of color. He also briefly served as the Eastern Organizing Manager for the Sierra Club. Prior to that, Kwesi was Deputy Director at Get Out The Vote for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign in Ohio. Kwesi began organizing for Obama in 2007 in the early primary state of South Carolina and continued to organize in four more states during the primary season. In the general election, he became Regional Field Director for Cleveland, Ohio. #decolonizingwealth #reparations