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Parisa Norouzi, Empower DC

 In May 2016, I met Ms. Norouzi when I provided services for Mr. Nader, Breaking through Power. "Parisa Norouzi  has over 20 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations and organizing communities.  After an early career as an organizer in the environmental movement, Parisa co-founded the city-wide community organizing group Empower DC in 2003, an organization which works to build the confident self-advocacy and organized political power of low-moderate income DC residents with a focus on fighting the displacement of residents amid DC’s gentrification boom.  At Empower DC she has led the organization’s Child Care for All Campaign and the People’s Property Campaign, leading to victories including winning funding for child care vouchers which ended the city’s waiting list for those services, and changing DC law to provide opportunity for public input into the “surplus and disposition” process for public property.  Since 2001, Parisa has worked alongside the