Gus Newport is an amazing man. He ran the streets with Malcolm X and made social change for the Muslim community. He helped rebuild New Orleans after Katrina and was the Mayor of Berkley in the 80's. When it comes to social impact there is not much that Gus hasn't done. Come listen as we talk politics, the military and the San Fransisco 49ers.
Gus Newport is a social justice activist, and independent consultant providing TA in the areas of community and economic development, public policy, community organizing strategies and organizational and systems development. Gus was the program director of the Vanguard Foundation, consultant and Sr. Fellow to the Ford, Annie E. Casey, Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Jacobs Family Foundation and the Mabel Louise Riley Foundation. Gus was the MLK Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sr. Fellow at U.Mass. Boston, Yale, Portland State, and UC Santa Cruz.
He is the former director of the Institute of Community Economics. He directed the community Building Support center for the Urban Strategies Council (USC). Gus is the former Director of the Partnership for Neighborhood Initiatives (PNI) Palm Beach County, FL and the former Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) Boston, MA. He is the former Mayor of Berkeley, CA (1979-1986). He was a member of the Board of Overseers of the Graduate Program in Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University. He served as the Vice-President from the US to the World Peace Council (1980-1986) and served on two United Nations committees. He also worked for the Department of Labor assigned to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. He also brought on line the 2nd Concentrated Employment Program (CEP) in the country in Rochester, NY.
Gus delivered the commencement speech at Heidelberg University, his Alma Mater, Tiffin, Ohio, and May 2009 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.