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Oral History: Ann Henderson
Organization: Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, 120 Wall St.,
20th Floor, New York, NY 10005
Date of Interview:1996
Ann Henderson is Director of Cooperative Development
for the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board. Henderson's social involvement
and development began in a progressive church where her father was an organist.
She studied and was influenced by the socialism of Julius Nyerere when
she worked in Tanzania. Her work at UHAB began in 1978 as a field coordinator
with Tenants Associations. The Tenant Interim Loan Program initiated at
the time gave tenants the right to manage their own buildings. She became
Director of TIL in 1982 and considers this one of the most challenging
periods of her career. In 1981, she became a member and is now the Chairperson
of the Board of Directors of Hope Community Inc., a non-profit housing
organization in East Harlem, which owns and manages 800 low income housing
units.
Interviewer: Lenore Laupheimer, a doctoral candidate in American
History at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
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