The Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund is proud to announce its renewed presence in the Washington, DC, the nation’s capital with its Public Policy Institute. Kimberly R. Marcus is the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Interim Executive Director for Public Policy Institute and the Director of Media and Telecommunications. Kimberly Marcus has over 10 years combined experience in corporate and nonprofit, concentrating in the areas of diversity and inclusion, corporate and community relations, strategic planning, economic development, corporate philanthropy, fundraising  and business development, building new territories, project management and increasing profits and revenues through creative marketing initiatives.
 
Rainbow PUSH has been in the forefront of the national policy debate from the latter part of the 20 th Century to the present. The Rainbow PUSH Public Policy Institute will focus on influencing progressive public policy, toward political, economic, and social justice for workers, women, and people of color throughout America. In the best tradition of our organizational and inspirational founder, Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., the Public Policy Institute employs the pen and the picket to achieve equitable public policy. After all, Dr. King led the national march to justice by connecting protest to policy and civic engagement to constructive change.
 
In Washington and beyond, the Policy Institute forms coalitions of state, county, and municipal lawmakers across the nation to increase effective public policy, particularly in the American south which has the richest soil, and the poorest people, starving for equal opportunity and equal protection under the law.
 
Likewise, the Policy Institute monitors legislation affecting industries important to the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project to include financial services, telecommunications, automobile manufacturing, information technology, entertainment and commodities, while influencing access to capital, social justice, and peace issues globally. To convey complex legislative issues plainly to the people via television, radio and the internet and church services in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Rainbow PUSH chapters at Howard University and Prince Georges, MD help to act on issues.
 
The Institute hosts a weekly community meeting with area residents on social justice issues.
 
The Institute contains the Rainbow PUSH International Affairs Department and Telecommunications Project. In addition, regular forums are held at the office on policy issues critical to workers, people of color, and women such as telecommunications, labor, international affairs, education, and business development.
 
Staff

Kimberly R. Marcus – Interim Executive Director for Public Policy/ Director of Media and Telecommunications
James Gomez – Director of International Affairs
Steven J. Smith – Office Manager

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