Angela Williams is currently executive director of Charles Street Area Corporation/Council, a nonprofit community development organization serving residents on the Northside in Pittsburgh. Charles Street Area Council is the community-based organization that leveraged the public-private community investment and housing development model in the 1980s from which Neighborworks America was started.
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Perspective of a community representative of Charles Street Valley
Ultimately, for the inaugural advisory committee, I believe the newsrooms benefited more than the community. I am hopeful that the media will access community members and information we shared as resources to cover stories that reflect the conversations from the advisory committee.
