Change Agents: Janice Mirikitani & Cecil Williams

• Website: http://www.glide.org/
• Biography: Reverend Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani have been transforming lives for over 40 years. Reverend Cecil Williams has expanded the limits of spirituality, compassion and diversity as Founder and Minister of Liberation of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco. As minister, author, social activist, lecturer, community leader and spokesperson for the poor and marginalized, Reverend Williams is respected and recognized as a national leader on the forefront of change and in the struggle for civil and human rights. Janice Mirikitani is nationally recognized as a visionary, community activist, leader, poet, and editor. She is San Francisco's second Poet Laureate, author of four poetry books and editor of nine anthologies. Mirikitani is the Founding President of the Glide Foundation where she in partnership with Cecil Williams, have achieved worldwide recognition for their groundbreaking organization which empowers San Francisco's poor and marginalized communities to make meaningful changes in their lives.
• Specialty: civil rights, spirituality, homelessness

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