Governance

Dushaw Hockett
Board Member

Dushaw Hockett is Director of Special Initiatives for the Center for Community Change (CCC). As Director of Special Initiatives for CCC, Dushaw works on a range of projects focused on issues of race and building power among African American, African and Afro-Caribbean constituencies. Prior to joining CCC, he was a tenant organizer in New York City where he helped form a citywide organization of public housing tenants. He later helped launch a national tenants’ organization and became the organization's first director. He's a former board member of the National Coalition for the Homeless, National Low Income Housing Coalition and National Neighborhood Coalition. In 1992, Dushaw was part of a grassroots campaign that helped elect Nydia Velazquez (D-12) as the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in Congress. He spent six years as a member of her Congressional staff.

Dushaw joined the staff of CCC in 1999 as head of the organization's public housing initiative. He later became an organizer for the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), a project of CCC, where he worked to build multi-racial, multi-ethnic alliances. In 2008, in collaboration with CASA de Maryland, a human rights organization, Dushaw co-wrote Crossing Borders. Crossing Borders is a 35-page training and action manual designed to help build coalitions across lines of difference including race and ethnicity.

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