Southern New Hampshire University Presents Mtangulizi Sanyika With Lifetime Achievement Award

NEW ORLEANS (The New Orleans Agenda) -- On June 9, 2007, Mtangulizi "Mt" Sanyika of the African American Leadership Project (AALP) was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) for his 40 years of service in the American social justice movement and his nationally distinguished practice of Community and Economic Development. Over his 40-year career, he has served as a planner, organizer, policy analyst, researcher, academician, trainer, social justice advocate and development specialist. He has been a part of the Civil Rights, Peace, Ecology/Environment, Black consciousness, urban development, and Global sustainability movements.

Southern New Hampshire University is the premier academic training ground for just economics and responsible development in the country. It is the only University in the U.S. that offers a national and International MA, MS and PH.D. in Community Economic Development. The program offers academic and practical training in participatory development and annually attracts Professionals, academics, community practitioners, government officials, NGO's and everyday citizens to its ranks. Its students represent all races, cultures and nationalities, and every region of the US and 15 countries from around the world.

Sanyika is a 1963 graduate of Dillard University, and a 1967 graduate of Boston University. His academic disciplines include Black Studies, Community and Economic Development, Urban development Neighborhood planning, social theory/social movements , cultural anthropology, and African and global development. He has served on the faculties of Harvard, MIT, University of Massachusetts, Brown, National University, UWW, the Graduate Theological Union, the Open University of Tanzania (East Africa) Cal- Berkeley and Dillard. His students have included Dr. Cornell West, Dr. Dwight Hopkins, Dr. Jemadari Kamara, Attorney Lani Guinier, and developer Peter Bynoe among others.

Mtangulizi has authored over 50 articles, policy studies, technical reports, training manuals and social critiques. For 13 years, he was a Senior Planner and manager of Training with the national economic development and Law Center in Berkeley/Oakland, CAL. His articles and studies on 'Balancing downtown and Neighborhood development, Regionalism and Community Development, market pricing transportation equity, urban based recycling, public housing resident management, and HOPE VI impacts are recognized by development practitioners across the country. He has provided consultant assistance for governments and or nonprofits in all regions of the US including: Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Miami, Denver, Raleigh- Durham, and New Orleans. He has also consulted internationally with the City of Montreal Canada, Bradford England, Paris France, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the Japan Pacific Resource Network.

Additionally, he has, travelled and lectured in Africa, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Canada, the Caribbean and the south Pacific .He has helm memberships in the World Future Studies Federation, the Parliament of the World's Religions

In New Orleans, Mtangulizi serves as the Project Manager of the African American Leadership Project or AALP, which is an action oriented think tank focused on the needs of the most marginal citizens. Pre Katrina, the AALP engaged in strategic dialogues, consensus and Agenda building. Post Katrina, the AALP has authored the Citizens Bill of Rights, the Neighborhood Rebuilding Equity Ordinance, the National Policy Agenda , convened 2 Policy Summits , organized the "Hands Around the Dome," assisted with the passage of the Neighborhood Rebuilding Plans, and most recently the Orleans Parish Recovery and Rebuilding plan.