11/09/16 Music Educator and Political Activist, Sam Daley Harris




Making It! with Terry Wollman show

Summary: Originally trained as a musician, Sam Daley-Harris played percussion instruments in the Miami Philharmonic and was Terry Wollman's high school music teacher. Sam went on to found the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS in 1980, co-found the Microcredit Summit Campaign with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and FINCA founder John Hatch in 1995, and found the Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation in 2012.<br>After receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Muhammad Yunus said: “…. no other organization has been as critical a partner in seeing to it that microcredit is used as a tool to eradicate poverty and empower women than RESULTS and the Microcredit Summit Campaign.” Daley-Harris is the author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government. In 2010, Ashoka founder Bill Drayton said, “Sam Daley-Harris is one of the certified great social entrepreneurs of the last decades.”<br> <a href="mailto:sam@empoweringcitizens365.org">sam@empoweringcitizens365.org</a><br>@samdaleyharris<br><a href="http://www.citizenempowermentandtransformation.org" rel="noopener">www.citizenempowermentandtransformation.org</a><br><a href="http://www.reclaimingourdemocracy.org" rel="noopener">www.reclaimingourdemocracy.org</a><br><br>Suggested Sites:<br><a href="http://www.results.org" rel="noopener">www.results.org</a> - RESULTS, ending global and domestic poverty<br><a href="http://www.citizensclimatelobby.org" rel="noopener">www.citizensclimatelobby.org</a> - Citizens Climate Lobby<br> <br><a href="http://www.fcnl.org" rel="noopener">www.fcnl.org</a> - FCNL, Ending Mass Incarceration<br> <br><a href="http://www.americanpromise.net" rel="noopener">www.americanpromise.net</a> - American Promise, overturning Citizens United