Lori Latham Email & Phone Number

Gary, IN, US

Gary, Indiana, United States

Gary, Indiana, United States

Leading the expansion of Wessler Engineering into the Northwest Indiana market.

Greater Chicago Area

Led “Smokefree in the G!” a campaign to protect hundreds of workers from deadly, cancer causing secondhand smoke by passing a smokefree air ordinance in the City of Gary.

Gary, Indiana

• Plans, organizes and manages the Recreation and Parks Departmental staff (work assignments, team building, goals, performance evaluations and recommendations for personnel action such as hiring or promotions);
• Develops the vision, mission and purpose with goals and objectives for the Department;
• Developed more than 50 new recreation programs and events;
• Raised approximately $1.1M in new grant funds since starting in 2012;
• Prepares and justifies Departmental budget and controls expenditures including supervision of departmental capital projects;
• Develops short and long range plans for the Department;

Gary, IN

• Built organization from the ground up by securing $5,000 in initial funding in 2007 and $31,000 by 2009 and $83,000 for 2010 through foundation grants, individual donors and building a core membership of volunteers.
• Developed a core team of organizers, leaders, volunteers and leaders using direct action organizing models of leadership development, organizing training and community mobilization.
• Managed day to day operations of the organization including fundraising, program management, board member recruitment and retention, staff management, volunteer coordination, and fiscal reports.
• Designed winnable social justice issue campaigns including “Yes We ‘Garbage’ Can, a fight against the privatization of Gary’s garbage collection and other actions.

Produced content for two hour, weekly, call-in talk radio show, "Talk Diaspora", a program covering news and events from Black people all over the world.

Indianapolis, IN

Master Of Arts (Ma), Social Justice

Loyola University's Institute of Pastoral Studies' Master's in Social Justice serves "change agents," offering them a solid grounding in.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Student Union Board of Governors, LYLAS, Students Against Drunk Driving