Judy Hertz

Director of Special Projects, Midwest Academy

Judy Hertz has worked for the Midwest Academy, a national training institute for progressive community organizing, since 1999 where she provides training and consulting on topics from basic organizing skills to supervisory skills to strategic issue campaign development and organizational development. Hertz has worked with a wide variety of neighborhood groups, statewide organizations and national organizations, including the Brady Campaign, Amnesty International, the Alternative Schools Network, USAction, and others. She has trained and mentored over a hundred college students in 15 states through the Midwest Academy summer community organizing internship.

Hertz has been a community organizer since 1980, including ten years as executive director of a tenant-based, multi-issue organization in the highly diverse Rogers Park neighborhood, and two years spent training low-income women leaders in the largely Hispanic West Town community. She also spent six years as founding editor of NOA's Ark, the journal of the National Organizers Alliance, where she worked with community and labor organizations across the country to spotlight issues of interest to the field of organizing. Hertz has a BA from Brown University, and an MA from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.

Classes
CD 5300 Principles and Practices of Community Organizing