Paying Rent

By Alex Zermeno

Book Overview

Alex Zermeno's memoirs describe a community activist seeking civil rights and empowerment for Latino communities during the mid 1950s to early 2000s. Alex began as a "bird dog" during a voter registration drive in his hometown of Salinas, California. His community activism includes serving on various non-profit boards, assisting in organizing the United Farm Workers, and the various challenges involved while directing the Anti-Poverty program in the Mission District of San Francisco. Serving as Deputy Director of NCLR, a national Latino advocacy organization in Washington D.C., reinforced the idea of communities united can make a difference. Alex warmly and humorously writes of these experiences and of the family's several cross country moves in his efforts to bring about positive change for Latinos.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163132019X
• ISBN13: 9781631320194
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Alive Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"