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Because of her passion for Outreach Ministry (street evangelism/soul winning) and serving the homeless community, she co-founded S.A.L.T.E.D (Saving A Life To End Destruction) in 2017 to further the Cause. She has also partnered with “Sisters On The Street”, ‘Project Hood’s’ summer initiative in an effort to quell violence in neighborhoods in the city of Chicago. Over the years, she has ministered on the streets and in neighborhoods across the city of Chicago and the Chicagoland area, (Robbins, Chicago Heights, Ford Heights, and Gary, Indiana) as part of 102.3FM Gospel radio station’s (Hammond, IN) evangelistic initiative and through her local church winning souls for Christ. Wright loves God and has a heart for Evangelism. The organization also awards the Advocates of Change/OPIB Scholarship to students who exemplify excellent community service. To encourage children, the organization’s Advocate of Change Foundation, “Do It For The Children” community event, awards the Hadiyah Pendleton Legacy Scholarship to children of high scholastic achievements in public as well as private schools by assisting them in defraying tuition/college costs. Wright is the co-founder and Executive Director of Advocates of Change/OPIB, non-profit organizations, which advocate the safety of children in and around public schools in America.
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She has also served as an Honorary Vice-Chair of the Honorable Dorothy Brown, former Clerk of the Circuit Court of Chicago, State of Black Chicago Congress.ĭr. Three of those years, she worked as a supervisor of the part-time evening staff. She was employed for 20 years in the Classified Advertising Department and worked concurrently while teaching full-time. Wright is also a retired part-time employee of the Chicago Sun-Times Newspaper. Upon her retirement in 2009, she received honorable notable recognition from the City Council of Chicago by Alderman Carrie Austin.ĭr. After a long career, she was acknowledged for her excellence in Education and other civic duties. Thirty-two of those years she worked in the community colleges in Illinois teaching Business Education and English courses. For 34 years, she was employed as an educator. In 1965, her family migrated to Chicago, IL, where she attended and graduated from the Chicago Public Schools. Herstine Wright, a resident of Chicago, IL, was born in Mound Bayou, Mississippi in the Delta, known for its rich heritage and founded by ex-slaves, to sharecroppers.