About Us

The story of the Voices of Poverty Project does not belong to one person. It belongs to the homeless, the exploited, the forgotten, and every community forced to fight for its own survival.

My journey began at twelve years old, serving in soup kitchens, cleaning neglected neighborhoods, and joining church outreach missions across the country. From disaster relief after Hurricane Katrina to rebuilding homes, I witnessed both the extraordinary power of community and the devastating consequences of systemic abandonment.

When our outreach ministry dissolved and local organizations began closing their doors, a brutal truth became impossible to ignore:

Poverty was not simply a failure of solidarity. It was a consequence of how power and resources were organized.

Revolutionary theory gave language to what experience had already taught me. Marx exposed the contradictions of class exploitation. The Black Panther Party demonstrated that survival programs could become instruments of political education, community power, and self-determination.

Growing up near the site of Philadelphia's MOVE bombing, and later witnessing the rise of Black Lives Matter, transformed my understanding of service.

Feeding people was necessary. Challenging the conditions that kept them hungry was revolutionary.

I understood that solidarity without organization could relieve suffering, but could not dismantle its causes.

So we organized.

From protest to policy advocacy. From grassroots coalitions to mutual aid. From meeting basic needs to community defense through rapid response and legal observation of ICE activity.

We began transforming revolutionary theory into community practice.

Our mission is no longer simply to help people survive systems of oppression. It is to build the collective power necessary to transform them.

Because solidarity may sustain a community for another day.

But organization gives that community the power to determine its future.