Creating
a path to
understanding
Community Action Projects
Come Alive Oct.5
1982 Terri Gardner lead Brainstorm creatives in providing a uniquely targeted “Come Alive Oct.5” campaign-Resulting in Chicago’s historic voter’s registration drive that convinced Harold Washington to run for Mayor in 1983
It’s a power thing
1992 Brainstorm’s team developed a second historic registration drive, “It’s a power thing” Register to Vote. Gardner was a part of the VOTE Community committee, along with then community organizer Barack Obama, Commissioner Joe Gardner and Phil Salter to name a few.
Black Women’s Leadership Roundtable
2003 as an MSW student intern for Family Rescue, a domestic violence prevention organization, Gardner co-headed a community action with Elizabeth King of the Black Women’s Leadership Roundtable. Gardner and King worked with Alderman, CPD and administrators reopen the southside’s largest domestic violence office. Gardner performed healing circles during a tragic crime spree targeting Black women on the south side.
