International Change Maker and Community Organiser Leaves Audience Inspired After Visit to College of Social Sciences — Article

A “rousing call to action” at the University of Birmingham came from Ernesto Cortes Jr., Co-Director of the Industrial Areas Foundation — described here as a “world-leading community change campaigner.”At an event organized by the College of Social Sciences and Citizens UK (an IAF affiliate), Cortés discussed the state of America's economy, how "creative distruction is producing high levels of impotent rage in the working classes," and called for teaching people to exercise agency.