Oral History Archive

Filtering by community activism back to all

Keith Suber

Community activist and reformed gang member

April Leong

Founder and principal of Coney Island's Liberation Diploma Plus High School

Ronald Stewart

Community activist and resident of Coney Island for more than 50 years

Lolita Divilova

Community Board 13 member and Brightwater Towers homeowner and board member

Tim Law

Bilingual educator and founder of Chinese American Social Services Center in Bensonhurst

Pamela Pettyjohn

Longtime Coney Island resident and president of Coney Island Beautification Project

Ansen Tang

Director of United Chinese Association of Brooklyn in Bensonhurt, Dyker Heights, and Sheepshead Bay

Stanislav Baev

Coney Island resident and founder of the not-for-profit American Alliance for Protection of Animals

Abby Jordan

Growing up Latina in Brighton Beach with a special connection to nature and the ocean

Karen Dawn Blondel

Environmental justice organizer who was born in Coney Island and raised here in the 1960s and '70s

Mathylde Frontus

On growing up in Coney Island and founding the nonprofit Urban Neighborhood Services

Grace Lo

Homeowner and community activist in Coney Island's West End for almost 30 years

Shirley Aikens

Community activist and president of the Carey Gardens Tenants Association

Ted Enoch

Partnerships for Parks' Catalyst community specialist on waterfront parks along Coney Island Creek

Georganna Deas

Coney Island resident Georganna Deas has spent forty years advocating for a better Coney Island

Lou Powsner

Coney Island businessman and neighborhood activist