May 11, 2021
Ithaca’s community organizers, activists, Black farmers and more have transformed the community in ways big and small. And they have stories to tell.
A new book, “13 Leaders: Stories of Community Building for Systemic Change,” published by Cornell students, honors the journeys and life’s work of 13 Cornell Civic Leader Fellows – grassroots leaders who have played critical roles in developing resilient communities in and around Ithaca. Provided
Cornell Civil Leader Fellow Phoebe Brown participates in a rally in San Francisco.
The book is the product of five years of work by undergraduate students majoring in development sociology in the Department of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, who documented the oral histories of local community leaders as part of their senior capstone course, Agents of Change: Community Organizing for the Public Good.
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Ángel Solís of the Bronx was 18 when he first voted, excited to participate in the 2004 election. At the time a registered Republican, having been raised in a conservative household – “everybody hated me in the Bronx” he recalled – Solís said he voted for then-President George W. Bush and that it was “fun” to see his candidate emerge victorious. “I got to see democracy in action from a very young age,” Solís said. “It was my first taste of being a citizen.”
Not long after, Solís went to prison on burglary charges, where he would spend the majority of the next 15 years of his life. Now 34 and a Democrat, Solís said when he was released in 2016 he didn’t feel much like a citizen anymore. As someone convicted of a felony and on parole, he had lost his right to vote. “I m trying to be a citizen, I m trying to do everything I m supposed to,” Solís said. “Yet I can t participate in the most important thing that we Americans hold dear, I can t vot