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States Served:
Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
Bio:
Ken Fujimoto is a senior regional organizer serving the Southwest at Bread for the World and a career-long organizer. For over 30 years, he has practiced, taught, and evangelized the art of organizing. Trained and mentored by the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), Ken has learned what it means to be an authentic leader in a local context. Most importantly, they invest in the development of others. He has experienced this with farm workers and Latino immigrants in California, Arizona, and Texas; among black and white woodcutters in Mississippi; with working class and low-income families in urban environments; and among parents, students, and educators in inner-city public schools. Ken’s impetus to organize came from a brief encounter with Cesar Chavez. He looks forward to continuing that journey and his learning trajectory at Bread. Ken’s interest is to support Bread in building a powerful organizing infrastructure so the organization can maximize its financial and human resources to be an effective institution to truly end hunger. He could not sustain this work without the support of his wife Kathy, daughter Aiko, and son Kenji.