NYT: Community Organizing Never Looked So Good

[Adelante]

April 12, 2009

By SARA RIMER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

QUINN RALLINS, 23, graduated magna cum laude last year from Morehouse College with a dual major in international studies and Spanish. This spring, Mr. Rallins is finishing his master’s degree in comparative social policy at Oxford. He has analyzed research for the Rand Corporation in England, led workshops in Malaysia for Amnesty International and founded an organization to help orphans in the Dominican Republic.

His next step? Top financial and technology companies and nonprofit groups have expressed interest in hiring him. Even in this economy, he has options.

But Mr. Rallins wants to be a community organizer — just like the world’s most famous one, Barack Obama.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/fashion/12organizer.html?_r=2&ref=style&pagewanted=print

[NC_Nurse]

1. Despite Sarah Palin's derision.

That makes me smile. :-)

She is so over.

[JayMusgrove]

2. Reminds me of the days way back when...after Watergate

Everyone wanted to become a journalist. Either that or a lawyer.

Remember that?

[Adelante]

3. I do nt