NCLR Media Guide

Loren McArthur

Associate Director, Capacity-Building

Expertise:
Community organizing, leadership development, and capacity-building; non-profit management and organizational development; political advocacy and public policy

Education:
Master’s degree, public administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; bachelor’s degree, philosophy, Yale University

Current Position:
Strategic initiatives to develop the advocacy capacity and power of NCLR Affiliates and grantees; capacity-building for citizenship and voter registration and mobilization initiatives; Latino Empowerment and Advocacy Project; Emerging Latino Communities Initiative, specifically targeting the Southeast, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest; NCLR National Latino Advocacy Days, a two-day event in Washington, DC which brings together Latino constituencies from throughout the country for leadership training and legislative visits with members of Congress

Previous Position(s):
Staff director and lead organizer, Merrimack Valley Project

Selected Publications:

“Organizing Just-in-Time in the Merrimack Valley,” Social Policy (December 2001)

“Polluters and Politics,” Dollars and Sense, coauthored with Marc Breslow (July 1998)