Who is Paul Newell?
Paul is a 34-year-old community organizer and progressive Democrat, who has committed his life to social justice. Whether working to elect progressive leaders, preserve Yiddish culture or bring needed services to children orphaned by AIDS, Paul has always believed in working together to achieve real change.
Born and raised in Lower Manhattan, Paul attended New York City public schools. After college, he documented the history of the Lower East side as an archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
In 2000, Paul joined Ubuntu Education Fund, then a fledgling international non-profit based out of a broom closet in an elementary school. As Grassroots Director, Paul helped build the organization into an internationally recognized leader in response to HIV and AIDS. Ubuntu now reaches over 50,000 vulnerable children in New York and South Africa.
Last year, Paul took his passion for social justice to the streets of Lower Manhattan in his campaign for New York State Assembly. In the course of that campaign, Paul met with thousands of our neighbors on their concerns for the community. His advocacy for progressive change made a difference.
Paul Newell was endorsed in that race by The New York Times, The New York Post and The Daily News.
Today Paul is running for Democratic District Leader to be an independent voice for our neighborhoods. Paul has proven he has the guts to stand up to the big developers and political machines that want to steamroll our communities.
With your vote on September 15th, Paul Newell will bring that energy to work for us.
… the lower East Side, East Village, Chinatown, Wall Street and Battery Park City would gain in Newell a well-qualified representative who is both in sync with the district's political leanings and in touch with grass-roots concerns about traffic, schools, affordable housing and sustainable neighborhoods.
The New York Daily News, 9/7/2008