Peace on our Streets with Tina Padilla!

In our new video series, Peace on our Streets, Urban Peace Institute Executive Director, Fernando Rejón, sits down with respected community intervention workers to talk the importance of violence reduction efforts in Black and Brown communities. Through this series, we explore the impact of community-based public safety, and why peacemakers deserve an increased and continued investment as they save lives on the frontlines.

In the second episode of Peace on our Streets, Tina Padilla, a well-respected community intervention worker with Community Warriors 4 Peace, shares her story of what led her to become a peacemaker and kept her in this work. Despite low pay and high risk, she explains that it is her calling to look out for her community by promoting peace and antiviolence. She emphasizes that people in her community need peacemakers who provide hope, support, and resources so that youth and families can not only survive, but thrive.