Brian Kettenring

Brian Kettenring
Co-Executive Director
Wall Street Accountability, Community Organizing, Campaign Strategy, Economic Justice, Housing, Voting Rights, Climate Justice

Brian served as Executive Director of Leadership Center for the Common Good prior to its merger with CPD in late 2013. As the Director of Common Good, Brian and his team built an organization that worked with partner organizations in 18 states and 45 cities nationally. Common Good and its partners played essential roles in campaigns for economic justice, Wall Street accountability, education reform, environmental justice, and much more. During his 18-year organizing career, Brian has helped run four living wage campaigns, three campaigns against predatory lending, and a wide range of other campaigns, including: urban school reform, campaign finance reform, tenant legislative protections, adoption of a progressive federal budget, passage of a federal economic recovery package, and campaigns promoting smart growth and environmental justice.

Brian’s first work in organizing came through the Midwest Academy training program in Chicago, IL.  Later, Brian worked for the Rogers Park Community Action Network and the REACH project, an effort to leverage tenant deposit holdings for affordable housing.  From 1995-2009, Brian worked for ACORN, initially in Chicago (1995-97), and later in Oakland (1997-99), Sacramento (1999-2002), Florida (2003-2008), the southern US (2005-7), and in Washington, DC (2009-10). Brian received a BA in African and European Intellectual History from Carleton College.

Articles:

The Department of Justice? Not for Wall Street
The Huffington Post, 2.4.13

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